Oklahoma City Analog activity

[ttlradioman]

Heard some tactical traffic on 158.76 around 1630 or 1700. Sounded like they were following someone around 240/penn.

I wonder what is going to be done with the old system/frequencies?

 

[freqscout]

M/A-Com is also contracted to remove all legacy repeaters after the changeover is complete.
As for the freqencies I don't know. The city may retain the licenses as it has with other frequencies over the years.

 

[WX5JCH]

I was in OKC all day Thursday, monitored both the central and rural systems, sounded good, they are not digital yet. Fire Ops channel sounded like a good idea. Lets hope they keep the system as is and not go digital except for tactical/detectives.

 

[mam1081]

Oh, but it is digital. Your scanner (or other non-ProVoice equipment that is "trunking") will just ignore anything that it doesn't know how to decode.

Only about half the comms are digital though. All the analog stuff is still patched, so it stays analog on the system. Analog in = analog on EDACS; digital in (TX on the TRS), digital out (on EDACS - but still a muffled sounding analog on the old stuff (VHF & UHF)).