In my personal opinion they should added the Millville site (CLOU02) as part of the ECEN simulcast tower network seeing that it covers the NW part of Columbia county and the far north of Montour county.
New site neighbors for 1.38 INDI07 Rossiter.
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Is it just me or does it look like the WEST03 700 A/G site has a CC of 161.950?
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Any clue as to if PA DCNR will add the Air Region TG's to STARNet that were on the Air-Ground System?
I imagine they are there they just haven't used them yet maybe? I never heard them much on my local A-G site (LYCO01) before the switch to phase 2.
That may be an artifact. The site data in this software can get a little corrupted sometimes.
Venango and Warren peeps, been seeing TG 40186 on the Seneca site, sounds like school buses in Warren co. Heard one of them say the other day that a student needed to go to north Tionesta st which shows up in Kane. Just wondering anyone else has ID'd this TG.
Probably ATA. 425xxxx RIDS have been showing up on the Global Command talkgroup recently...probably from radios where the zone is changed accidentally. ATA was an OpenSky user for many years.
TGID 40186 hearing on Allegheny Reg Simulcast..transportation company, patient run from Emporium to Ridgeway. Might be Ride ATA.
Application pending for a three channel 800 MHz site in Wilkes-Barre (LUZE01). This will be the second 800 MHz site in NEPA, joining the site at Mt. Pocono.
I wonder why they're putting these sporadic 800MHz sites in NE PA? It's kinda like that lone UHF site in Hazelton.
Very interesting. I actually haven’t heard anything on this system in Luzerne County in a week or two. All I ever hear is the Game Commission and they’re not always crazy busy but it’s been even quieter than normal here lately.
Site 115 seems to have an interesting new neighbor:
It's either an error, Or they dropped the 700 A/G site for the new 800 WQUX870 at LUZE01 😕
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It could be an error which is why I said seems to have. However, it was in the license that GTR8000 recently posted. I lost the signal then renamed the file Tower001115.Old. When I got the signal back I got the 856.0375 back. I can occasionally get LACK53. If I go up on the hill I get a 5 bar signal on LACK53, which may show this as a neighbor as well. But I'm not going to do it tonight.
700 and 800 MHz are considered a single band with P25, and the frequencies can be intermixed at sites. It seems pretty clear from that screenshot that LUZE01 is now operating on an 800 MHz control channel. It would have to be a pretty weird error for it to display one of the newly licensed frequencies at that site. Whether they've retained the 700 MHz frequencies at LUZE01 or changed it over to 800 MHz exclusively remains to be seen.
It wouldn't be surprising to see them change out the Air-Ground sites from 700 MHz to 800 MHz frequencies, seeing as how the state allocated 700 MHz frequencies are at a premium and are shared by neighboring states. The aircraft wouldn't care either way, same difference.
It wouldn't be surprising to see them change out the Air-Ground sites from 700 MHz to 800 MHz frequencies, seeing as how the state allocated 700 MHz frequencies are at a premium and are shared by neighboring states. The aircraft wouldn't care either way, same difference.
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I was wondering if they would be using some of the old opensky 800 freqs as they will eventually turn off equipment. Will be nice to not hear the band polluted with the 800 crap from opensky.
I haven't done a deep dive into the 800 frequencies used at every site, but so far it seems that they have licensed new 800 frequencies at these sites rather than reuse the same OpenSky frequencies in the area. Probably because OpenSky is technically still an active system.
By the way, the 800 MHz site at Mt Pocono suddenly makes sense. Not sure why I didn't realize earlier that it's probably intended as an Air-Ground site.
Can anyone verify if any additional existing broken sky sites in Montco and Berks have been transitioned over to the new system yet?
From my location I can not receive any of the current listed sites from the Eastern portion of Montco and the only Berks site listed is Port Clinton, which is no good for me either.
Im on the Berks/ Montco line and occasionally when the wind blows , I can grab a Chester VHF site but that’s it.
I know there was a broken sky site on Mt Penn and one at the Penndot shack in Limerick right off 422 by the outlets and either of those would be perfect for me, but I can’t seem to locate anything else I can decode based on listings here.
From my location I can not receive any of the current listed sites from the Eastern portion of Montco and the only Berks site listed is Port Clinton, which is no good for me either.
Im on the Berks/ Montco line and occasionally when the wind blows , I can grab a Chester VHF site but that’s it.
I know there was a broken sky site on Mt Penn and one at the Penndot shack in Limerick right off 422 by the outlets and either of those would be perfect for me, but I can’t seem to locate anything else I can decode based on listings here.
I am aware of two sites currently utilizing open scab licensed frequencies, they should not be ruled out..
PA-STARNet: Pennsylvania Statewide Radio Network Site: Reesers Summit (YORK01)
PA-STARNet: Pennsylvania Statewide Radio Network Site: Reesers Summit (YORK01) Details
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PA-STARNet: Pennsylvania Statewide Radio Network Site: Harrisburg Tech Park (DAUP17)
PA-STARNet: Pennsylvania Statewide Radio Network Site: Harrisburg Tech Park (DAUP17) Details
www.radioreference.com