New license grant for 800mhz P25 Phase 1 system used by Rockford IL Police Department
Rockford IL PD 800mhz P25 license grant
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Interesting.. Have to toss that in my spare scanner and see what I get..
Proscan recording history.. Lets see what I can get...
Edit: Not online yet. No signal. Guess we wait.
Edit: Not online yet. No signal. Guess we wait.
Conventional frequencies 856.7625 & 857.7625
VASCAR2
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I wonder if this could be backup transmitter in the event Starcom goes completely down. If the site looses connectivity or the site controller goes down StarCom goes into soft mode where a mobile can comminicate if his radio affiliates with a site. I’m not sure if a multi site simulcast system works the same as stand alone sites. In soft mode a stand alone site reverts to a single Repeater and you can only communicate with radios affiliated with that site. At least with a conventional 800 system you might be able to cover the whole city with mobiles on simplex or duplex with a mobile relay.
I don’t think Rockford has any VHF radios in their patrol cars (no vhf antennas on cars) and I don‘t remember seeing their officers with dual band APX portables.
I don’t think Rockford has any VHF radios in their patrol cars (no vhf antennas on cars) and I don‘t remember seeing their officers with dual band APX portables.
The build out final date is a year from now, so it could be a while before we really hear anything
Appears maybe some testing going on. Proscan caught 292 hits on 857.7625 for 33 seconds, between 04/05/20 23:17:41, 04/06/20 01:42:02, RSSI here was 173.
Now that there may actually be something to catch, I'll hook up the audio recording.
Now that there may actually be something to catch, I'll hook up the audio recording.
Woke up to a bunch more hits (up to 394 now). Had the scanner on an indoor antenna for last nights weather event. Heard some of the traffic and it almost sounds like an automated voice message of some sort, longest signal was 33 seconds. 857.7625 is the only freq with hits. Back on the outdoor antenna now waiting to catch more. Couldn't hook up audio recording as the line out jack seems to be bad on the spare scanner.
Beginning to think everything I caught was some sort of band opening. 90% sure after my last post I was hearing DMR on the 857.7625 freq. Haven't heard a peep since.
ilgrant
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Regarding the bad line out jack...if it is a Uniden is the REC OUT enabled for the channel you were monitoring?
Yup, it's buggered. But it's my spare, so it's no big deal. Used to be in my truck, and if I can come up with a way to put it in my Jeep, it'll go out there..
857.7625 P25 Convetional has had a bunch of hits, including today hearing someone saying "Testing Portable". Most hits are click click gone, but this one actually had voice. May be something happening finally.
Testing in earnest now. One person on portable, one driving around mobile.
Been quiet since the testing 5-27, although I continue to see morning tropo openings once in a while. This morning heard reference to district 11 (Apparently construction in the area, down to one lane), and district 14.
Today Proscan shows it logged 200 hits on 856.7625 36:47 in total duration.
Monthly update.. So far Proscan has logged 2447 hits on 857.7625 for a total duration of 29:34, and 283 hits on 856.7625 for a total duration of 00:00.
Haven't heard any major traffic I could attribute to Rockford since the testing in May.. Still get the occasional opening in the mornings, but they are becoming fewer as the atmosphere cools a little (Finally).
Haven't heard any major traffic I could attribute to Rockford since the testing in May.. Still get the occasional opening in the mornings, but they are becoming fewer as the atmosphere cools a little (Finally).
WX9RLT
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24/7 Running Proscan on my feed computer and my spare 996P2. Unfortunately I can't record with that scanner, but I can log hits.
WX9RLT
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I was going to help monitor that system and help you out. And I was kinda wondering if it was a certain time, thank you for the response above. I am unable to monitor 24/7, but can try helping you listen to help out when I can. I have had mine on the last 48 hours monitoring it, and not 1 hit yet. I do have the recording capabilities, so if they do talk it will record. But at the same time, if it is encrypted it won't log the hit. So I am wondering if that may be why I haven't logged nay hits in the last 48 hours
It's on my spare, which has nothing to do until I can get my truck fixed. So it's not a big deal.. I've heard some testing, but I'd bet 98% of the hits were tropo openings. Nothing of any real interest yet to say which department is going to utilize it.
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