Private EMS on DMR in Houston

[Charlie1068]

I recently moved to Houston and wanted to see if there were any Private EMS companies on DMR as I’m trying to fill up some channels on my SL7550

 

[n0esc]

I only found a couple here:

Texas Bigfoot Communications (Tier 3) Trunking System, Houston, Texas - Memorial Hermann Transport Team
TeamConnect Trunking System, Various, Multi-State - Unidentified Ambulance Service
FleetTalk (Houston Connect Plus) Trunking System, Houston, Texas - TX Children's Ambulance

All licensed trunked systems are listed here: Harris County, Texas (TX) Trunked Systems

 

[KI5IRE]

Don't forget about Hatzalah EMS Subcategory: Volunteer Fire/EMS/Hatzalah EMS (Harris County)

They utilize partial encryption though.

 

[mwjones]

I only found a couple here:

Texas Bigfoot Communications (Tier 3) Trunking System, Houston, Texas - Memorial Hermann Transport Team
TeamConnect Trunking System, Various, Multi-State - Unidentified Ambulance Service
FleetTalk (Houston Connect Plus) Trunking System, Houston, Texas - TX Children's Ambulance

All licensed trunked systems are listed here: Harris County, Texas (TX) Trunked Systems

Is TeamConnect still active? I know that it was reportedly shut down in early 2021, and while some Control Channels may still be active, unless users have gone rogue with old equipment it is not being used.

 

[Charlie1068]

I have not seen any of the sites here in Houston still running

 

[Echo4Thirty]

I have not seen any of the sites here in Houston still running

We had a bunch of decommissioned portables from them and as of a couple of months or so ago they would find a control channel but fail to register with "SU UNKNOWN" errors. Seemed odd that a control channel was still on the air.

EDIT: I just went and grabbed one out of the warehouse and its sitting here out of range. Whatever site it was picking up was taken of air i suppose. I also just went back and looked at when we deprogrammed them and it was back in February of this year.

 

[mwjones]

We had a bunch of decommissioned portables from them and as of a couple of months or so ago they would find a control channel but fail to register with "SU UNKNOWN" errors. Seemed odd that a control channel was still on the air.

EDIT: I just went and grabbed one out of the warehouse and its sitting here out of range. Whatever site it was picking up was taken of air i suppose. I also just went back and looked at when we deprogrammed them and it was back in February of this year.

Anterix (the company that built out TeamConnect) is paying for the whole 900MHz rebanding - as a result, they get a nice clean block of RF (936.5 MHz to 939.5 MHz and the corresponding input bandwidth at 897.5 MHz to 900.5 MHz) to which they are planning on building a nationwide broadband system. That's why United Airlines, Reliant, Oncor and others have been playing musical frequencies for the last couple of years.

My guess is they're keeping the frequencies showing active to the FCC until such a point they can build out their broadband infrastructure. Also keeps them from having to visit tower sites multiple times - they'll remove the old equipment when they install the new equipment.

 

[tunnelmot]

We had a bunch of decommissioned portables from them and as of a couple of months or so ago they would find a control channel but fail to register with "SU UNKNOWN" errors. Seemed odd that a control channel was still on the air.

Any of these for sale? Trying to spread the 900 ham love. PM me if so...

 

[Echo4Thirty]

Any of these for sale? Trying to spread the 900 ham love. PM me if so...

Cant get enough of Sam Malone eh? lol

 

[Markef]

ON what control channel did you hear that is active.in the Houston area?

 

[Echo4Thirty]

I have no idea what site or frequency, it was on an XPR7580 from one of the companies that used to be a subscriber on the system.