Powhatan P25 System

[TJX400]

I've always had pretty good performance with SDRTrunk. I have 4 RTL-SDR tuners that monitor Hanover, which is a Phase 1 linear simulcast system. I've only ever heard of issues decoding Harris systems with Unitrunker, I can receive Spotsylvania County (which is Harris) fine with SDRTrunk. Make sure to check your tuner configuration in SDRTrunk to see if they need to be 'tuned' or not.

 

[ChrisF150]

All public safety vehicles have tri-band Harris mobiles installed.

Does anybody have the Motorola key to put on a Harris system?

 

[BoxAlarm187]

Does anybody have the Motorola key to put on a Harris system?

Not sure I follow your question. There was nothing Motorola-propriety put into their Harris radios.

 

[ChrisF150]

Not sure I follow your question. There was nothing Motorola-propriety put into their Harris radios.

Getting ready to try to put a Motorola into service and to program that I’m going to have to try to find a program key from Harris radio. Harris is so hard to deal with. I hope things last with relationship between Powhatan and Harris but things not looking good since Harris is trying to sell the company to Japan overseas.

 

[BoxAlarm187]

Getting ready to try to put a Motorola into service and to program that I’m going to have to try to find a program key from Harris radio.

You’re trying to put a Motorola radio in service on the Powhatan Harris system? Have you talked to any of their people about getting it programmed?

 

[hfd376]

Perhaps he's trying to affiliate scan Powhatan's system with a moto radio. The old xts3000's required a syskey in order to program trunking systems through cps. I hope his goal isn't accessing the system...

 

[ChrisF150]

Perhaps he's trying to affiliate scan Powhatan's system with a moto radio. The old xts3000's required a syskey in order to program trunking systems through cps. I hope his goal isn't accessing the system...

It would be just to scan since the digital scanner is 600-800 and this is free. L3 Harris radio system is one of the hardest ones to scan

 

[Isk223]

Hello, do any of yall have the band plan for powhatan?

 

[BoxAlarm187]

Sources report that the VHF simulcast for fire/rescue will likely be taken down in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Webodisk]

Are they going to use paging over the trunk system ?

 

[Listener1440]

Thank you for the information, I will be traveling in that area in a couple of weeks.

 

[TJX400]

I think (and I could be entirely incorrect) that all of their tone-outs are "compatible" with P25. I live in Hanover, and King William uses our system, and page over P25 as far as I know. So it's possible that their tone outs just happened to work with P25's modulation, and they are wanting to save money on equipment and license costs. Makes sense.

 

[BoxAlarm187]

Are they going to use paging over the trunk system ?

Yes, they've been paging over 800MHz for a couple of months now, using TG alerting, not two-tone sequential paging though. They're using Unication G4's for this function.

 

[Webodisk]

Sounds similar to Rockbridge County, Time for a road trip to find tg's, for my G4 Thanks

 

[kainixon2187]

What type of paging does Rockbridge use exactly? I remember going there last summer and not hearing anything on the alert talkgroups.

 

[Webodisk]

UHF analog for sequential paging, each company has a separate TG for alerting no sequential paging on them.
Dispatch Tg, UHF sequential paging and a Tg for each company are patched together for initial dispatch.
Alleghany uses something similar

 

[BoxAlarm187]

Powhatan announced on their Fire Rescue facebook page that the VHF simulcast has been permanently taken down.

 

[ChrisF150]

Does anybody know of any more talk groups involved in the powhatan Harris system besides the 3 or fire and 3 for sheriff?

 

[Isk223]

I dont know the talkgroup numbers but sheriffs office has about 12 channels as does the fire department.

 

[markrob7000]

I haven't been able to verify all of these, so I haven't submitted them all to the database.

201 FRDISP1
202 FRDISP2
203 FR TAC 3
204 FR WATER
205 FR TAC 6
206 FR TAC 7
207 FR TAC 8
208 FR TRAINING

** NOTE: The talk group numbers don't all align to the TAC number