Plymouth township police use to self dispatch years ago before the montco trs system like many other local pd's. When the trs system came in they still utilized their local uhf system for most of their day to day operations, they only used the county system for interoperability and communication with the Eoc. They have since switched to phase 1 p25 on the county trs system but from what I seen and heard their uhf system was still up and strong and being used. I recently seen a officer on foot carrying a county issued APX and also a XPR3500 portable and their local pd channel 453.525 hasn't been active like normal (WNHG262) is still a active license. I also know if they went DMR especially encrypted that a analog won't pick it up. can anyone shine a light if they switched to a DMR repeater and are the rest of the local township channels going to be switching? I know their local fire tac channel and public works channel are still active as ive heard activity on both on their uhf analog frequencies. I know Plymouth community ambulance switched from uhf analog to DMR in the past few years so maybe PD did to for interoperability? I know Upper merion twp is switching most of their local twp communications to DMR. I know DMR is taking over for a lot of business and local private public safety for their old analog non county systems. It just sucks cause its nice to be able to hear local activity then have to listen to PD on the county system in zones and also with the new 7/8 phase 2 system who knows what were going to hear anymore once that's fully activated, again any info helps TIA.
Plymouth Twp. Montco Local PD Channel
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I've been parked on 453.525 for about an hour now, only thing I've heard was paging data noise from Lancaster County with the morse code for callsign WQQS871 using the same frequency. I had Plymouth PD local in my radios with a PL of 156.7 but since seeing this post have cleared the PL in the event they switched over to another mode. Last modification on license WNHG262 was back in 2015 & the frequency doesn't indicate authorization for DMR emissions so I doubt they made the switch to DMR. I'll post an update if I hear anything different
Glad to get secondary input, Im not going to say that when Plymouth pd used their uhf system that it was active 24/7 but the fact that I've monitored it for some years I know the amount of traffic that is normal for it also the repeater ID would come over RX every now and then. I didn't know who but I did notice that data/digital interference as I would keep RX CSQ on my mobile and base unit as obviously their receive gain is a lot stronger with a external antenna, but it was never enough to get so annoyed that I would take it out I would just take it out of scan every once in a while. I also know back when 800 was coming to the county they were running all three local 453 frequencies 1-disp 2-secondary 3-events/shared with public works when they depreciated low band. Since the county system "had improved..." they gave two of the channels to the other township operations and went to one private channel. looking at the license it looked like they always took care of their radio system on their own. Im going to also assume if they put the money out for TRBO radios they planned on upgrading to DMR because from past I believe they ran moto CDM mobiles and WARRIS portables that im pretty sure were narrowband compatible. Seeing how on here (RR) they are listed as FM and not FMN that they were probably running WIDEBAND up till now. Maybe a dealer got in their ear and instead of "spending money" to narrow band decided to sell them on DMR maybe one of the WIDE AREA NETWORK deals? any way thanks for the input maybe someone else will know something and we'll figure it out I have faith in the RR guys we will.
I got a hit on 453.525 about a half hour ago with PL 156.7, sounded like the officer needed IT help. Looks like RRDB is still accurate
Now that I'm able to monitor real time, it appears the PL may have changed to 173.8. Looking back at my logs from today I've gotten hits from 156.7 & 173.8. I'll continue to monitor and try to get to the bottom of this
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The 156.7 hits were from the Public Works channel, 453.575. It looks as if the PD local PL did indeed change to 173.8. I'll give it a few more listens then submit the update to RRDB
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The 156.7 hits were from the Public Works channel, 453.575. It looks as if the PD local PL did indeed change to 173.8. I'll give it a few more listens then submit the update to RRDB
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I confirmed change of PL and submitted to RRDB. Thanks for the heads up!
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