Olmsted County ARMER Control Channel Offline?

[fiveiron]

Hello,

I went to check my trunk-recorder setup this morning and noticed that it was spewing a bunch of errors about not being able to tune the control channel.

In Olmsted County the following control channels are listed:

851.050

851.150

851.300

851.5375a

853.2625

853.5125a

853.6125c

and I can hear a signal on only 851.5375 this morning. Is anyone else seeing the same thing?

Thanks!

 

[captaintofuburger]

I am as well. Came here for the same reason.

 

[Imago]

Looks like it's on the alternate channel. My setup (SDRTrunk) allows for control channel searching so i program in the primary and all alternate frequencies of the site i want to listen to every time for when this happens. Edit: looks like Olmsted was updated recently in this site's database so who knows...

 

[fiveiron]

I have the primary control channel and the 2 alternates also loaded but it looks like trunk-recorder doesn't know what to do with the alternates. I'll take another look at the DB. Thanks for responding!

 

[fiveiron]

Looks like it's on the alternate channel. My setup (SDRTrunk) allows for control channel searching so i program in the primary and all alternate frequencies of the site i want to listen to every time for when this happens. Edit: looks like Olmsted was updated recently in this site's database so who knows...

@Imago would you mind posting the frequencies you know of for primary and alternates? I checked the DB and didn't see any changes.

 

[fiveiron]

Using trunk-recorder I was finally able to get things working. It appear trunk-recorder doesn't just rescan and select an alternate control channel automatically. I listed 851.5375 as the first control channel and removed the old primary control channel from the list. Then I also had to make sure the first source listed would cover that frequency. After that, things started working again.

 

[blue5011]

I am wondering if something else happened there in Olmsted County.

Normally I here TG 20212 Z 3 SC Call (Rochester) as the State Patrol regional or zone dispatch. The last time I logged a call from Z 3 SC Call was Saturday (March 20, 2020) at apx 10:30AM.

Have not logged a TG 20212 call since...

 

[fiveiron]

I am wondering if something else happened there in Olmsted County.

Normally I here TG 20212 Z 3 SC Call (Rochester) as the State Patrol regional or zone dispatch. The last time I logged a call from Z 3 SC Call was Saturday (March 20, 2020) at apx 10:30AM.

Have not logged a TG 20212 call since...

I'm still capturing 20341 which is Southeast CALL rather than South Central CALL

 

[wogggieee]

I had the same issues a few weeks back with Ramsey County. They're been on an alternative control channel for several weeks now. Trunk recorder doesn't seem to deal with a control channel beyond the first one in the list.

 

[blue5011]

"They're been on an alternative control channel for several weeks ..."

Now you have me wondering...

 

[wogggieee]

"They're been on an alternative control channel for several weeks ..."

Now you have me wondering...

Ramsey County went back to their usual control channel this morning at 10:16

 

[johnmoe1]

This made me curious if the Ramsey County site was being upgraded, but no it is still not broadcasting the SYNC_BCST messages that upgraded sites broadcast.

Barely related oddness... The SYNC_BCST message contains a time. All of the upgraded metro sites, except two, broadcast a time that is within a minute of correct (I am too lazy to check more carefully). Hennepin East is 40 minutes slow. Minneapolis is broadcasting a date of September 16, 2004.

 

[wogggieee]

What other changes have you noticed on upgraded sites?

 

[blue5011]

TG 20212
Z 3 SC Call (Rochester) as the State Patrol zone dispatch came back on yesterday (329/20) about 10:30 AM.