Perry County Testing New System

[W3DMV]

Testing

Radio crew doing extensive testing today. Sounds like
coverage testing using NFM, CSQ..

 

[W3DMV]

Now using tone 179.9

 

[Thunderbolt]

155.1525 is listed as FB8 which I believe is for paging.

No. FB8 is for trunking transmissions. According to the FCC license, this is supposed be a P25 Phase II TRS. I would start searching between 150.5000 MHz up to 174.0000 MHz for a control channel. What your hearing might be the P25 failsoft repeaters.

73's

Ron

 

[dmg1969]

No. FB8 is for trunking transmissions. According to the FCC license, this is supposed be a P25 Phase II TRS. I would start searching between 150.5000 MHz up to 174.0000 MHz for a control channel. What your hearing might be the P25 failsoft repeaters.

73's

Ron

Ron, this is definitely not a Phase 2 system. It was INITIALLY listed as a TRS, but then it was switched to Conventional. They switched it back to being listed as a TRS, but that is for future use.

The system is exactly as described earlier.

Fire/EMS dispatch is analog
Law Enforcement channel is digital (Phase 1)
Ops 3, 4 and 5 are digital (Phase 1)
Ops 6 and 7 are analog talkaround channels

This is absolutely not a TRS, so there is no control channel.

 

[dmg1969]

Radio crew doing extensive testing today. Sounds like
coverage testing using NFM, CSQ..

Yes, there was a LOT of testing yesterday. I had my HP-1 recording and it would have probably taken me well over an hour to review all of the audio.

 

[hosehead88]

Is today still the go-live date for the system?

 

[SlipNutz15]

It was supposed to be but not all radios are installed.

 

[hosehead88]

Any updates?

Thx

 

[portroyalbirdy]

Any updates?

Thx

Here is dmg1969's latest post on his Perry County Scanner Group Facebook Group on June 6th, 2017:


"The new tentative "go live" date is August 14 per Director Rich Fultz. Mobile bracket and wiring installs are nearly complete. End user training will be the last week in June and the 2nd week in July. Radios will be given to the various agencies around August 1st following any last minutes programming changes."

 

[hosehead88]

Here is dmg1969's latest post on his Perry County Scanner Group Facebook Group on June 6th, 2017:


"The new tentative "go live" date is August 14 per Director Rich Fultz. Mobile bracket and wiring installs are nearly complete. End user training will be the last week in June and the 2nd week in July. Radios will be given to the various agencies around August 1st following any last minutes programming changes."

Thanks!

 

[dmg1969]

Yes, that is still the latest that I know. I have my HP-1 recording today while I'm at work. I did hear some tone testing on the fire/EMS dispatch frequency over the weekend. I may touch base with Rich mid-July to see if they are still on track for a mid-August cutover.

 

[W3DMV]

Perry County is now dispatching on their new system. Sounds good
here in Gettysburg.. Tone 179.9

 

[dmg1969]

That might have been a test. I do not believe that they are live yet. One of the members of my FB group said that he heard a dispatch on the new system around 11PM the other night and someone replied saying that they were still testing. AFAIK...the switch is not done yet. I was listening at home last night and the only dispatches I heard were on low band.

 

[dmg1969]

So, for those who are interested, many of the departments in the county have switched over to the new system. By tomorrow, only Liverpool and New Bloomfield should remain to transition. After that, radios go in the non-critical vehicles (private vehicles, EMA, etc.).

Fire and EMS are dispatched on analog. Fire calls are then sent to one of the digital OPS channels. Police are on the digital channel.

The system sounds good at home and while I am mobile. Little to no simulcast distortion that I can hear.