ONSLOW COUNTY Freqs

[marine_hm]

Sorry guys, for falling so far behind. I just found and dusted off my RadioShack scanner. Pro 106.
Anyway, I have not listened to the radio in over a year. I finally found it and the charger! It's charged and scanning, but all is quiet. Has there been a major change in freqs/trunking? I have an RH77CA extended length antenna 18" or so and used to get a lot of chatter. Please enlighten me...

 

[marine_hm]

To be more specific.. I get Marine Corps Base and NOAA radio traffic(just to make sure my radio is working). What I like to listen to is the Police, Sherrif and EMS; ALL is quiet.

 

[kc4jgc]

System upgrade

Back in November 2014, Jacksonville/Onslow County upgraded to P25 phase 2.
Onslow County/Jacksonville City (Project 25) Public Services Trunking System, Jacksonville, North Carolina - Scanner Frequencies
There may be a vhf patch or two, otherwise you're out of luck.

 

[rescue161]

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune also switched to a new encrypted P25 380 MHz system. All public safety has already moved to the new system. The only people that you may hear on 2808 are users that have not gotten their new radios. Once they do, we are turning the system off and I'll change the 2808 system to deprecated in the database.

County Fire and EMS is still paged out on VHF, but the rest of their channels as well as everyone else migrated to the new 800 MHz Phase II system. It is mostly in the clear (non-encrypted).

State Highway Patrol still uses the VIPER 800 and some lowband.

 

[marine_hm]

Rescue161: MCB went to 380mghz or 800?


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[Flyham]

Rescue161: MCB went to 380mghz or 800?


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I'm confident in it being 380mhz as well. I think there's quite the network spanning SE North Carolina including Pope & FT. Bragg up thru south central NC.

 

[rescue161]

Yes, Camp Lejeune is running a multi-site P25 380 MHz system. 100% encrypted.

 

[marine_hm]

Curious: I'm looking at the RR database. In small print..
New multi-site P-25 380mhz trunking system that is full time encrypted. But I still pick up "Blackburn", safety net


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[rescue161]

Which system are you hearing Range Control? If you are referring to the old 2808 system, some users have not migrated over. We are in the process of setting up radios on the new system for those users and as soon as they are issued out, the old system will be shut down.

 

[JACKNTB2012]

Speaking of Camp Lejeune, may the Marine Staff Sergeant that got killed in the hard landing a few days ago....rest in peace.
While listening to the request for Support from AirLink, while enroute, the AirLink Pilot radioed that they did not have the same access to the same frequencies as the Marine Ground Control and thus there was a big delay in communication between AirLink and the base. Flight Ops was going to relay communication, I presume they got over a phone line. Eventually the AirLink Pilot went thru the control tower frequencies and was able to get LZ coordinates. Now that Pedro is gone, it appears that they need to fix a glitch like that. Speedy recovery to the injured and God Bless all that serve!

 

[marine_hm]

Which system are you hearing Range Control? If you are referring to the old 2808 system, some users have not migrated over. We are in the process of setting up radios on the new system for those users and as soon as they are issued out, the old system will be shut down.

406 - 409 freq TGID: 15824 Blackburn

 

[rescue161]

406 - 409 freq TGID: 15824 Blackburn

That is the old (2808) system. We're shutting it down very soon. Most of Range Control's (Blackburn) traffic is carried on the new system.

 

[rescue161]

I just now caught that you were monitoring 3DD (15824), which is not Range Control. I know that is what the database shows, but 3DD is "SOI Camp Guard." Range Control (Blackburn) is 69 (105). There are several mistakes in the database, but since it is a deprecated (soon to be) system, there is no point in correcting the mistakes.

 

[marine_hm]

No, it was range control. Aka Blackburn. Ranges going hot, closing for the day. Using call sign "Blackburn". I pulled that pic from the PC assuming it was 15824 I was listening to.. Anyway. Bottom line those are all going away.


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[rescue161]

There are very few people left on the old system which means changes had to be implemented in the way the system operates. The reason that you are hearing Blackburn on that TG is because SOI has not migrated to the new system. Range Control has one of SOI's radios so that they can still communicate with SOI. Range Control's TG was never 3DD, it was always 69.

Range Control's main TG is now on the new system, which is why you don't hear much out of them.

I know all of this because I work in the radio shop on the base.

 

[marine_hm]

So is anyone still using the old Jacksonville/Onslow Simulcast system? System ID 7D26? Should I add the conventional (15X.XXX range ) freqs into the scanner?

 

[rescue161]

The old 7D26 system was upgraded to Phase II using the same frequencies, so 7D26 is no more; 5DF took its place.

I can't state one way or the other on VHF as there is still a good bit in use, but I will say that we removed all of the County related VHF radios from our Inter-Op site.

 

[whitehelmet1202]

The County is still licensed on VHF for all of the old systems. The only VHF use remaining that I have seen or detected for County use is 155.880 for county fire paging and 155.400 for county EMS paging.

VHF Events 1 (151.235), The LE Mutual Aid repeater (155.250), the Sheriffs repeater (155.565) are all gone or turned off. I know the schools still use VHF to talk to the school buses. The City still has some VHF stuff used to monitor/control the municipal water/sewer pump stations. That's about it.

If you monitor 155.880 and 155.400 the only thing you will hear is paging tones and call announcements from the dispatcher, that's it.