OHP lowband usage/activity panhandle

[PJH]

Just curious if OHP relies on county systems more than their own lowband radio in non OKWIN areas...

Been bumming around the panhandle and northern part of the state and very little activity is heard on lowband (woodward, to the east/west along OK 412) and the such..

 

[b1tr41d]

Just curious if OHP relies on county systems more than their own lowband radio in non OKWIN areas...

Been bumming around the panhandle and northern part of the state and very little activity is heard on lowband (woodward, to the east/west along OK 412) and the such..

When I made a trip through the Texas panhandle to almost Amarillo, I was picking them up quite frequently on I-40. That was back in November.

 

[nd5y]

See if you hear anything on these.
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?fccCallsign=WPIP614

 

[mam1081]

I wasn't that far north, but I heard them on lowband dispatch on Tuesday around Elk City. If they aren't on low-band, I'd bet they use the local county sheriff channels too. Last I was in the OK Panhandle last fall, I didn't notice any 800 Trunked stuff (but there was a bunch of DMR UHF for an electric company!).

 

[b1tr41d]

See if you hear anything on these.
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?fccCallsign=WPIP614

Well that's interesting. New sites for OKWIN?
Last thing I had heard is that the areas without OKWIN coverage, they were going to patch some 800 frequencies with the low band frequencies then patch those to OKWIN. Or some convoluted mess like that. But that was several years ago before the budget crisis.

 

[nd5y]

Well that's interesting. New sites for OKWIN?

The license for those sites isn't new. It was first issued over 20 years ago.

 

[HogDriver]

See if you hear anything on these.
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?fccCallsign=WPIP614

Program these conventional or trunked? Seems like it should be a trunked with 5 freqs allocated to each tower. Do we know if, in fact, they are actually in use?


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[nd5y]

Program these conventional or trunked? Seems like it should be a trunked with 5 freqs allocated to each tower. Do we know if, in fact, they are actually in use?

To begin with they should be programmed as conventional alanog with no tone to see if there is any activity at all. If there is a control channel then program them as trunked system and/or use Unitrunker or PRO96Com to get the data for the database.

I ask about those sites every couple years or so and get crickets. As far as I know they are not used for anything but I never travel there and have not confirmed if they exist or not.

 

[HogDriver]

Yea, looks like it’s “planned” to be part of OKWIN, just taking forever to be activated. You know...”Oklahoma Money Problems!”

FB2C is mobile relay, so I don’t know[emoji849]

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