PA Statewide P25 Phase 2 System

[u2brent]

I am thinking PennDot TG 11477 is going to be a typo also. It does not fit the pattern of what we know. Washington Co PennDot is using it, but it appears it should belong to Jefferson Co. Of course I am just guessing with no actual fact to back that up

Where is there a typo 11477?

there is a full list here..

Pennsylvania Statewide Radio Network (PA-STARNet) PA Dept of Transportation Talkgroup Research - The RadioReference Wiki

wiki.radioreference.com

Please look at the linked page and then report any errors.
You may be looking at an old list..

PennDOT District 12 includes

• 12-1 Uniontown (Fayette County)
• 12-2 Waynesburg (Greene County)
• 12-4 Washington (Washington County)
• 12-5 Greensburg (Westmoreland County)

But any PennDOT unit could use it..

If your seeing those TG's and they agree with that list, Please Submit them, Unless they are already submitted of course.. If that list does not jive up, Then I definitely wanna know that too so it could be fixed if necessary. But so far so good..

I'm a bit queezy about Montgomery County's position, but we'll see..

 

[u2brent]

I have received short transmissions over the last week or so in ID Search mode set on the Washington County Claysville site from talkgroups 11456, 11477, 11728, 11729,11732 and 11733. I am trying to pinpoint locations but no luck so far.

I found your older post, I now understand what you meant.
11456 = Maintenance District 12-2 Greene Main Office Waynesburg/Garage
11477 = Maintenance District 12 Sweep (This is a District Wide TG)
11728 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington Main Office Eighty Four/Garage
11729 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 20
11732 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 50
11733 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 60

All make sense from your location
11477 hasn't been submitted.. Yet..
At the time of your original post that PennDOT TG list was not available..

 

[bearcat]

I found your older post, I now understand what you meant.
11456 = Maintenance District 12-2 Greene Main Office Waynesburg/Garage
11477 = Maintenance District 12 Sweep (This is a District Wide TG)
11728 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington Main Office Eighty Four/Garage
11729 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 20
11732 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 50
11733 = Maintenance District 12-4 Washington 60

All make sense from your location
11477 hasn't been submitted.. Yet..
At the time of your original post that PennDOT TG list was not available..

I am not saying our list has a typo. I think it is strange that some of these district wide groups appear right between Indiana and Jefferson Co. I am just saying the programmers made a typo. And as I said before, I have no fact to back that up. It is just a bit weird if you follow the way the TGs are assigned in Alpha order to the counties and then these just appear out of no where.

 

[u2brent]

I am not saying our list has a typo. I think it is strange that some of these district wide groups appear right between Indiana and Jefferson Co. I am just saying the programmers made a typo. And as I said before, I have no fact to back that up. It is just a bit weird if you follow the way the TGs are assigned in Alpha order to the counties and then these just appear out of no where.

I can assure you there was some logic to how it came to be, I'm just not the one who can best explain it..
Those who can.. Probably won't.. It has more to do with spreadsheets and databases than alphabets..

 

[HM1529]

PennDOT's block of talkgroup allocations is approximately 930 numbers long. It gives me a headache thinking about figuring it all out and getting it all into the database someday. It'll take like half an hour to scroll the database page someday.

 

[GTR8000]

(Site is not online yet) Application pending to change two of the frequencies at POTT12 Denton Hill. 151.3175 and 154.935 are out, 151.175 and 155.445 are in.

ULS Application - Public Safety Pool, Trunked - 0009088043 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

 

[HM1529]

Site 1.87 is online. Nockamixon/Quakertown. Will be added to the DB.

 

[HM1529]

This license is showing an 800MHz phase 2 site in Centre Co. Anybody out there wanna check for a control channel?

FCC Callsign WPEF490 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

FCC Callsign WPEF490 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

www.radioreference.com

851.01250000 8CALL90
851.20000000
851.47500000
852.51250000
853.01250000 8TAC94
853.28750000

This would be at the tower site DCNR used to call Rattlesnake (CENT16) to the east of Black Moshannon State Park on Rt 501. All licensed for 9K80D7W.

 

[KB3ZI]

This license is showing an 800MHz phase 2 site in Centre Co. Anybody out there wanna check for a control channel?

FCC Callsign WPEF490 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

FCC Callsign WPEF490 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

www.radioreference.com

851.01250000 8CALL90
851.20000000
851.47500000
852.51250000
853.01250000 8TAC94
853.28750000

This would be at the tower site DCNR used to call Rattlesnake (CENT16) to the east of Black Moshannon State Park on Rt 501. All licensed for 9K80D7W.

How far would this be heard given mountain terrain

 

[HM1529]

How far would this be heard given mountain terrain

10-20 miles? Or more. Or less. Up in the Waterville area, I picked up Shade Mtn which was 35-40 miles away while up on top of the plateau. Of course, that was VHF vs this which is 800MHz. For the 800 sites local to me, I can pull them in from 10-15 miles. But, that is with less mountainous terrain.

 

[hundeesport412]

This license is showing an 800MHz phase 2 site in Centre Co. Anybody out there wanna check for a control channel?

It is also licensed for Fayette County . Maybe some one could check for a control channel for this as well.

 

[HM1529]

It is also licensed for Fayette County . Maybe some one could check for a control channel for this as well.

Yeah, I didn't mention that one again because I thought the Fayette site had previously been brought up in the forum. Aside from those two, there is one in Oxford that still is not online and one in Delaware Co that is not yet online. Other than that, I don't think we have any other outstanding 800MHz sites for now.

 

[KB3ZI]

I notice state park in Sullivan county is very active on vhf

 

[phillydjdan]

Care to elaborate which state park? Or whether you're referring to the VHF conventional channels or the VHF trunked site? Your post is extremely vague...

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Care to elaborate which state park? Or whether you're referring to the VHF conventional channels or the VHF trunked site? Your post is extremely vague...

Only state anything I'm seeing on the map in Sullivan County is Worlds End State Park and Loyalsock State Forest

 

[phillydjdan]

If that's the case then it seems his post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, which is the new P25 system, not the conventional frequencies...

 

[HM1529]

Site 1.78 with a CC of 858.1125 is showing up as a "failed" neighbor to site 1.83 (edit: and site 1.75).
Newtown Square coming soon.

 

[u2brent]

Not showing on 1.65, I'll wager it is showing on 1.68 if someone can check it..

 

[Audiodave1]

Not showing on 1.65, I'll wager it is showing on 1.68 if someone can check it..

Yes, it is showing on 1.68

 

[GTR8000]

Yes, it is showing on 1.68View attachment 85641

Unitrunker is indicating that the site is in WIDE mode now.

PS - Make sure to go to the Band Plan tab and click the red lightning bolt to "push to all sites" so that Unitrunker populates the actual control channel frequency, rather than the CH ID.