Baker845 said:Any info on Portland rebanding? when they will reprogram radios ect.
icom1020 said:I'm going to wait to purchase any radio until I read more on this, here is a wiki site on rebanding
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Rebanding
DickH said:The WIKI site is a bit misleading. They talk about UNIDEN and RADIO SHACK scanners, but that is not a clear distinction because some RS scanners are made for them by Uniden and others are made by GRE. So the distinction should be Uniden and GRE.
Baker845 said:Are they reprograming moble,portables and repeters? Do they have to replace any? Im not up to speed on how Motorola 800 mhz radios work?.
thanks
If the rebanding is done right it is fairly transparent to the users beyond bring their radio in for reprogramming or replacement.MrBarbecue said:Given the time frame mentioned above about the change-over, do you suppose that PDX will be using both systems until they have completed the change-over? I can't imagine having a portion of the rebanding efforts being used early on, while other agencies are still waiting to re-band their operations. Any thoughts on this? Inside information?
Also---has anyone heard anything about re-banding in Salem yet?
Thanks!
MrBarbecue said:---has anyone heard anything about re-banding in Salem yet?
Thanks!
DickH said:All 800MHz trunked systems in Oregon are (or should be) following the same schedule. Phase 1, 0-120 channel reconfiguration, was to have been completed by July 1, 2006.
That involved moving 0-120 freqs. (851-854) to 854 to 860. That has been completed in Portland.
Phase 2 involves moving all the 866-869 freqs. down by 15MHz. That can only start after everyone has moved off the 851-854 freqs.
A search of 851-854 reveals signals still present there as of yesterday, 10-15-06.
Phase 2 is scheduled to run from July 1, 2006 to Dec. 31, 2008.
guus24 said:Is clark county going to reband on oregon schedule or on the washington schedule?
guus24 said:Is clark county going to reband on oregon schedule or on the washington schedule?
icom1020 said:I'm going to wait to purchase any radio until I read more on this, here is a wiki site on rebanding
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Rebanding
K7AAY said:That WIKI suggests many RS systems (those made by GRE) won't properly receive Motorola systems because of the reduced channel spacing. Since Portland has a Moto system, this suggests Uniden-made scanners are the way to go as halving the channel bandwidth was said to be a problem for GRE-made RS scanners. Is this accurate?
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