New P25 system in Carroll county

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There is a new P25 System in Carroll county that is being used by the FD covering all of Carroll county. It’s VHF P25
 

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The GPS coordinates for the Green Forest tower seem way off. The GPS coordinates put it well outside of Carroll County, and centered over Newton and Searcy Counties.
 

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The GPS coordinates for the Green Forest tower seem way off. The GPS coordinates put it well outside of Carroll County, and centered over Newton and Searcy Counties.
The database has GPS coordinates for the Green Forest site of: 36.0, -93.0
The FCC license shows the coordinates to be: 36.29194, -93.43583

36.29194-93.43583GREEN FORESTCARROLLAR

As you note, this is a 31.6 mile difference.
 

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I thought maybe I could hear the Osage tower in Newton county but nothing as of yet.
 

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I live just south of Jasper up high on Mockingbird Hill. I can pick up the Osage site no problem. So far Ive only heard law enforcement traffic. I'm running a UID Logger/Recorder with my SDS200 and ProScan. I'll submit anything new to the database
 

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Made some location adjustments to the SDS 100 and am hearing Green Forest tower pretty regularly in Harrison and Western Grove.
 

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They're probably gonna be adding the fire departments this week to the system. Not 100% on that. Im headed over their Thursday to tour the new system.
 

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They're probably gonna be adding the fire departments this week to the system. Not 100% on that. Im headed over their Thursday to tour the new system.
What radios did they go with? Is it going to be FD/Law for all of Carroll County?

Thanks!
 

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Came over to Berryville for the day, conventional frequencies still have a handful of activity, P25 is used as well just about the same rate, no new TGs as of yet so it could be that they are still working on getting everyone on the system.

No use of the TG on AWIN for the county, so safe to say that it is likely no longer is use.

Maybe we see more TGs on the county system within the next few months?

For sites:
Green Forest is perfectly clear from Berryville
Holiday and Osage can latch a control channel, but doesn’t grab any traffic

Using a BCD436HP
 

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Came over to Berryville for the day, conventional frequencies still have a handful of activity, P25 is used as well just about the same rate, no new TGs as of yet so it could be that they are still working on getting everyone on the system.

No use of the TG on AWIN for the county, so safe to say that it is likely no longer is use.

Maybe we see more TGs on the county system within the next few months?

For sites:
Green Forest is perfectly clear from Berryville
Holiday and Osage can latch a control channel, but doesn’t grab any traffic

Using a BCD436HP
They are still working on some of the links between sites so it's possible that there just wasn't traffic on those towers at that time.
I have a ham repeater at the Green Forest site and work with the crew putting the system in. Top notch stuff!
 
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