Rockland's cross band links...

[APX8000]

With the FD's switching over to the 700 TRS, anyone know which UHF-low band (46.18) cross band links are still up and if so, what they are currently linked to?

 

[CqDx]

470.8000 MHz is alive and well. It rebroadcasts the Fire Paging talk group

 

[APX8000]

I'm aware of the UHF paging / simulcast UHF that the County put up. What I'm specifically asking is information regarding the following links thats were previously used for 46.18...

Rockland County links to 44 Control (46.180 PL 131.8)

453.2625 PL 131.8 located on the Congers Firehouse
471.1000 PL 167.9 located on the Nanuet Firehouse
460.6250 DPL 606 located on the New City Firehouse
460.2875 PL 131.8 located on Nyack College/hosted by Nyack FD
460.6000 PL 203.5 located on the Water Tank by Good Sam Hospital/hosted by Suffern FD
458.5750 hosted by Tallman Fire (unable to confirm)
470.5000 PL 131.8 located on Tilcon Mountain/hosted by Theills FD
470.6750 PL 131.8 located on Helen Hayes Hospital/hosted by West Haverstraw FD
460.5500 PL 167.9 Hillcrest FD

 

[GTR8000]

470.8000 MHz is alive and well. It rebroadcasts the Fire Paging talk group

Not quite, you've got it backwards.

470.800 is the countywide Fire Paging simulcast frequency, a primary resource. The MCC 7500 consoles at 44-Control key up all 10 base stations directly via the MLC 8000 simulcast controller, meaning the dispatch audio is going out directly over 470.800 with nothing else in between. That same console audio is also multicast on 46.18 in order to support legacy low band equipment that is still in service. It's a single resource on the consoles named DISPATCH, with the audio going out over both frequencies simultaneously and directly.

The Fire 1 talkgroup is rebroadcast over 470.800 on a secondary basis, meaning fire paging/dispatch always preempts that rebroadcast.

The Fire Paging talkgroup is, in fact, a rebroadcast of 470.800 over the trunked system; not the other way around as you suggested.

 

[CqDx]

Learned something today, thanks!