Rebanding question

[mcooke]

I use a Pro 93 to monitor the Clark County Washington 800 system (CRESA). It looks like the rebanding involves new frequencies in the 850-852 range which is within the specs of my scanner. Should I be good to go with my Pro 93? It's a Motorola type II system so I don't think there would be anything else to do other than reprogram any new control freq's as they come in service.

 

[DaveNF2G]

First, you're in the wrong forum. Your question is specific to a Radio Shack scanner.

Second, this has been discussed to death in many forums, including the Radio Shack one. Try the Search feature in the toolbar near the top of the page.

Third, the RR Wiki has an extensive article about rebanding.

 

[mcooke]

DaveNF2G... thanks for the reprimand. In the time it took you to write that you could have just answered my question. So don't feel the need to respond anymore.

Now if someone would like to help me with my question I would appreciate it.

 

[tobarger]

CRESA Rebanding

Here's a link to the CRESA system:
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=106

Yes, you just need to re-enter the new control channel frequencies.
I see that Cascade Locks control channels have all shifted down 15Mhz.
I don't know if the change over has taken place yet, you could try just adding the new frequencies to the old ones and monitor which channels are being used.

You will probably get better details about this and other local issues in the Washington Radio Discussion Forum.
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=62

 

[mikey60]

I use a Pro 93 to monitor the Clark County Washington 800 system (CRESA). It looks like the rebanding involves new frequencies in the 850-852 range which is within the specs of my scanner. Should I be good to go with my Pro 93? It's a Motorola type II system so I don't think there would be anything else to do other than reprogram any new control freq's as they come in service.

From what I see, it should work just fine on that system, with the exception of the Rainier Hill site, which will require a reband-capable scanner.

Mike

 

[qlajlu]

I use a Pro 93 to monitor the Clark County Washington 800 system (CRESA). It looks like the rebanding involves new frequencies in the 850-852 range which is within the specs of my scanner. Should I be good to go with my Pro 93? It's a Motorola type II system so I don't think there would be anything else to do other than reprogram any new control freq's as they come in service.

From what I see, it should work just fine on that system, with the exception of the Rainier Hill site, which will require a reband-capable scanner.

Mike

I agree with mikey60. Site 005 Rainier Hill seems to be the only one that will present any problems if you do not have a reband capable scanner or do not enter edited trunking tables into those scanners that are able to accept them.

mcooke, you can do the math. Simply subtract 15 MHz from the sites' frequencies yet to be rebanded to find what the new frequencies will be (provided the engineers do not assign a completely different one during the changeover). Any frequency starting with 851, 852, 853, and has a "0" in the fourth decimal place will not be accessible by any scanner that does not have edited trunking tables. However, these frequencies can be entered and scanned as conventional frequencies, but any following of voice conversations will be completely coincidental.

In Utah, we have undergone complete rebanding of the entire state's public service radio system (over 40 sites) and we have found that legacy trunk-tracking scanners will still track at approximately 20% ~ 80% depending on the frequencies used by the site being monitored. We have one site that cannot be trunk-tracked at all by legacy scanners because all of its frequencies are of those described above except for its Control Channel and one other frequency which is the alternate CC.

 

[mcooke]

Thanks for the info guys... much appreciated.