Back when NYS statewide wireless network was still a possibly, there were discussiions about new radios installed in trooper's car with new V-TAC interop frequencies. Does anyone know if this is still happening and if so are they being used at all?
Mostly up in this area they use 155.370 & 155.475 for interop.
The State of New York has licensed mobile and portable use on the VTAC frequencies. The only issue is that a lot of troop cars are still running older GE Orion mobiles that A> cant do narrow band modulation, and B> cant do 7.5 kHz channel spacing. NYSP has been purchasing newer Harris M7100 mobiles (basically it's the same as an Orion, just more options available) which can do both.
Kevin
All of the Onondaga County Troop Cars have already been installed UHF radios with the U-TAC Channels in them. This was due to the part of the Onondaga County OCICS Project. In addition Onondaga County has installed U, V, and I-TAC Channels at numeorus sites. Oswego is also working on installing TAC sites at this time. As Madison and Oswego are also both heading to UHF P25 systems I imagine you will see UHF radios popping up in all NYSP cars in the CNY area.
I also know DEC has been adding the VTAC frequencies to all there equipment in Region 7 for both ENCON and NYSFR.