Public Safety trunked systems that have been licensed under the new Rebanding plan have a newly created radio service code of "YE." As of two weeks ago, about 25 systems had been issued YE licenses. Today there are 68 YE systems.
Of the 25 from a couple of weeks ago, with only 2 exceptions the systems either had no changes to frequency assignments (because all their old assigments were already within the new NPSPAC assignments) or were LTR or EDACS systems. All of these require no changes to scanner firmware to continue monitoring.
The two exceptions were:
Bethlehem, PA (WNWQ636)
Trenton, NJ (WPGP231)
Within the past two weeks, their YE status has changed from application-in-progress to issued. Both of these systems will likely require the "rebanded" control channel format to operate on the new frequency assignments (but it is possible that their new assignments fall on "old" NPSPAC channels and won't require a C-Ch change...I haven't had time to analyze that deeply).
You can see the full list of YE licenses by going to:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAdvanced.jsp
and selecting "Match only the following radio service(s): " then selecting "YE - Public Safety/Special Emergency and Public Safety, National". You might also want to set the last line of the search form to show 100 hits at a time.
Of the 25 from a couple of weeks ago, with only 2 exceptions the systems either had no changes to frequency assignments (because all their old assigments were already within the new NPSPAC assignments) or were LTR or EDACS systems. All of these require no changes to scanner firmware to continue monitoring.
The two exceptions were:
Bethlehem, PA (WNWQ636)
Trenton, NJ (WPGP231)
Within the past two weeks, their YE status has changed from application-in-progress to issued. Both of these systems will likely require the "rebanded" control channel format to operate on the new frequency assignments (but it is possible that their new assignments fall on "old" NPSPAC channels and won't require a C-Ch change...I haven't had time to analyze that deeply).
You can see the full list of YE licenses by going to:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAdvanced.jsp
and selecting "Match only the following radio service(s): " then selecting "YE - Public Safety/Special Emergency and Public Safety, National". You might also want to set the last line of the search form to show 100 hits at a time.