Explains why NJTPD had issues today.
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Isn't NJTPD full time E? And, are they completely on NJICS, or are some of their units still on the NJSP 800 MHZ Simulcast system?
NJTPD went straight to 700 and never used 800. They are supposed to be full E but not all the units have been strapped yet so sometimes they do talk in the clear.
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Before they went E, I used to monitor NJTPD North Patrol on the North Simulcast NJSP 800 MHz system, TG 59632. I guess the 700 MHz system traffic was being carried there.
N Patrol was on the old NJT 800 north system. Only got used once in a while when there was issues with the VHF. The State 800 system would have only been for migration purposes.
STR-II not currently showing as an active peer to Union County as of this morning, but it is still showing valid after a peer clear and restart. Unknown if it's related to the JCP&L outages in the New Providence area, but I believe NPFD is/was on generator.
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The technology works and does what it is supposed to do even though my personal opinion of public safety agencies all switching to these systems is wrong and not in the public interest.
That being said the major problem with the NJICS or what ever its name is is the fragmented ownership of the supporting infrastructure and the number of various vendors providing services. Currently there are various State agencies, authorities and commissions ( NJSP, Turnpike/pkwy, AC expressway, NJ transit, DRJTBC to name a few)and many service providers such as Verizon, ATT, PSEG, JCPL various cable providers an so on. Also the Counties and local municipalities who own their infrastructure. There is no single entity that really controls the entire infrastructure of this system.
The NJSP technicians perform a outstanding job maintaining THEIR infrastructure as well as Transit taking care of theirs and some of the others, The problem is when generators are not properly maintained or AC units not maintained and so on and so on. when an improperly maintained generator fails at a key location it can take out the whole system or cell.
Site 21, STR-II, is still present and active at New Prov.
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Some years ago I witnessed the total failure of site 7. Despite a backup generator, a full wall of cabinet sized UPS’s there was no power. All for various reasons after a weather event. The few boxes I had there also had AGM batteries. They were the only ones on the air for some time. No question as to way to many variables.Way.
power outage...
STR-II (New Prov) peer status to Union County is back to normal today.
Also, anybody up north notice if High Point is still offline? I'm beginning to think that wasn't incidental (it went off BEFORE the storm).
High Point is fine. Following up via email...
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I was hoping for some change a little too much. lol. Being the curious son of a gun I am, I couldn't help myself and made the drive. STR-I is not at High Point sitting awaiting deployment, nor is it at Newfoundland. But since I'm here in High Point anyway I figured what the hell, even if nothing new or noteworthy is in it:
Atlantic EMS, DOT, DRJTBC, and DEP/Parks all being carried on the site as one would expect.
Atlantic EMS, DOT, DRJTBC, and DEP/Parks all being carried on the site as one would expect.
I could've saved you a trip if you had emailed me to ask. I track High Point and Walpack 24/7/365 in both UT and now SDRTrunk. If anything happens with that system in NW NJ, I'll be the first to know about it and it'll be noted here or in the RRDB within an hour, believe me. 
I could've saved you a trip if you had emailed me to ask. I track High Point and Walpack 24/7/365 in both UT and now SDRTrunk. If anything happens with that system in NW NJ, I'll be the first to know about it and it'll be noted here or in the RRDB within an hour, believe me.
I guess after the wild goose chase with STR-II I kinda wanna find it sitting there before it even gets setup. lol. Besides you're talking about someone with an 1,150mi commute. This is a milk run to the corner store.
TG 5117 is definitely Atlantic EMS, and likely some sort of secondary medevac talkgroup. I caught a transmission on Aug 6th from Air 3 trying to reach FlightCom after they couldn't reach them on primary TG 5115.
Just don’t send him UIDs in all CAPS...he HATES it.
Some control channel changes to Pluckemin thanks to my brother who is out and about this morning. Looks like 853.4375 is now primary, and 853.1375 is also showing control. 853.53125 (currently listing) is labeled alternate, but now not showing control.
And as @GTR8000 can see I finally pestered him into upgrading his Unitrunker...
And as @GTR8000 can see I finally pestered him into upgrading his Unitrunker...
We need someone to do some prolonged tracking of Site 60 to determine if 853.53125 is even in use at the site anymore. It could be the BSI channel, or it could've been removed entirely. It was never licensed anywhere in the state (although none of those frequencies was ever properly licensed at that site to begin with).
Sean said he remembers clearing the channel data before monitoring. He'll check again tomorrow.
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