Palm Beach County TRS Rebanding

[N4DES]

This my official notification that Site 1 on the Palm Beach County TRS will commence its rebanding on Tuesday 5/11 and end Saturday 5/15.

The 866 to 869 frequencies will drop down exactly 15 MHZ and the other 855+ MHz frequecies remain exactly the same. There are no major talk-group changes except for what has occured to date by PBSO.

Delray's retune will be last and this will complete all of the agencies that utilize or are attached to the PBC switch.

Mark

 

[blackbelter]

PM sent.
73,
KI4NRD

 

[gcr33]

You are lucky on this thread to have the czar of the system give the information ahead of time.

 

[SOFA_KING]

Yes...we are!

 

[N4DES]

We are officially 50% there. I will update the DB towards the end of the week or during the weekend with the new freqs. But like I posted above drop all of the 866 to 869 frequencies by 15 MHz and you should be good to go.

Be patient as we will be done by the end of the week.

Mark

 

[tdichard]

Could someone post the new frequencies for those of us who dont exactly understand the 15 MHZ drop. Thanks in advance.

 

[N4DES]

866.xxxx - 15 MHz = 851.xxxx, 867.xxxx -15 MHz = 852.xxxx, and 868.xxxx - 15MHz = 853.xxxx.

It isn't rocket science.

 

[tdichard]

Thanks...just wasnt sure. You mentioned some changes that PBSO made to TG's. Are they updated in the database or is there anything new?

 

[N4DES]

Nothing new but PBSO re-aligned some of their districts and re-named the district talk-groups to a "regional concept". To be honest, both myself and a number of the deputies who I know are still trying to figure them out.

Also the NPSPAC MA TAC 2, TAC 3, and TAC 4 have been rebanded as well to the 8TAC92, 8TAC93, and 8TAC94 frequencies. We are not doing back-to-back repeaters and have removed the old ones from service.

 

[tdichard]

One more question, what are the control frequencies. I seem to be missing some transmissions. I am using a BCD396T. I tried scanning the system in "Control Channel only mode" as I have before, and with all the freq and I'm still missing transmissions. Thanks for your help thus far!

 

[N4DES]

Wait until Friday....we are still in a transitional phase right now and making changes every day.

 

[N4DES]

I sent an update to the database this AM, but these are the official 28 frequencies:

852.7625 C
852.5750 C
853.7250 C
852.3750 C
857.3125
852.3250
852.1000
851.8500
851.8250
851.7500
851.6250
851.6000
851.3500
851.3250
851.1250
851.1000
860.3375
859.3375
852.4000
857.3375
856.3375
860.3125
853.7000
853.6500
853.3750
853.2250
856.3125
858.3125

 

[blackbelter]

Thank you Mark

I just updated the control frequencies in my digital radios and they worked well. We will wait for the TG updates.
73,
KI4NRD

 

[sandra2000]

I think I will just wait a couple of days and use the win500 to reprogram from the database. Right now I am not receiving anything from PBC. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who posts such great information. It is really a big help to people like me. I was always used to the old way back in North Carolina....it was pretty simple. Anyway....thank you all very much.

 

[PBGVOLFF]

Im picking up probably every other transmission on my scanner. Have one of the portables from the FD with me and can hear everything on there.

 

[tdichard]

My scanner (BC296D) stops on the TG while scanning but no audio is heard. Is ayone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

 

[tigerstud04]

i dont think that is all of the freqs. cuase i'm only picking up bits of the transmissions. will there be more

 

[N4DES]

i dont think that is all of the freqs. cuase i'm only picking up bits of the transmissions. will there be more

Take my word for it that those are the only frequencies. There will be no more.

 

[tigerstud04]

Take my word for it that those are the only frequencies. There will be no more.

ok just making sure. have they finished with the rebanding. it is a hit or miss on the transmission for me

 

[tdichard]

I am experiencing the same problem. In Control channel only mode I do not hear any transmissions. When I entered all the frequencies I hear transmissions but only parts. There is a lot of skipped radio traffic. Example: While monitoring FRMAIN for fire rescue, I miss some pages. Any thoughts?