SA area rebanding

[TXEMT]

Was chatting with the communications director at Live Oak PD and she said they are starting rebanding in January 09 and that San Antonio will start in February 09 and that everything is suppose to be complete by April, Also a note Live Oak has no access to SAPD radio wise at all, but they do have a radio to monitor San Antonio Fire from when they use to dispatch for Converse who do some mutual aid calls into San Antonio sometimes. They said they have not really ever turned on the radio at all, seems odd the city can't just throw in some SAPD patrol channels only type thing for them, oh well gotta love the 'interop" system that allows San Antonio to be interoperable with cities of there choosing.

 

[davidbond21]

I'd been wondering in particular when the Live Oak system was going to be rebanded. I guess it will be real easy to tell when they have.

Sounds like stingy ol' San Antonio to me. At least the Airlife helos can talk to folks on the ground.

 

[TXEMT]

Yeah SA Fire is pretty good with interop with there channels, most all the volunteer departments in the county have Fire,EMS and some response channels programmed into there jaguar radios, and most departments in the city like Castle Hills and Windcrest that use SA EMS for there service can talk to them on there channels, Far cry from PD who has barley given out a few radios to some school district pd's and some small towns like Balcones.

 

[otter9309]

The county fire radios have the Live Oak system in them. Live Oak radios do not have city/county ch's because they are not ESK equiped.

 

[TXEMT]

Yeah they have to have the esk option programmed in, Live Oak uses LPE-200 radios as well as Selma pd, UCPD, UCFD Schertz PD and Fire and Schertz EMS as well as Converse fire use Jaguar's for the most part, only Converse FD have Jaguar's programmed with SAFD in them because of running mutual aid calls for them form time to time. Most everyone else just does not have the option programmed in from the radios I have gotten to take a look at, I know Judson ISD PD have access to the SO channels and can monitor the city channels because of the area the school district covers.

 

[texasemt13]

So is the FCC going to spend time crankin' out new licenses when they start the transition? It seems if they did, we could just watch the licenses to see when the transition would start, then program everything in and start the process of figuring it out all over again...

Thanks for the heads up TXEMT.

I bet this system will be a little easier to figure out than the Austin/Travis/Williamson/Middle Rio Grande will...

 

[southtexasphantom]

If San Antonio is rebanding they need to start now,so they can finish by next July.

 

[texasemt13]

If San Antonio is rebanding they need to start now,so they can finish by next July.

Ah Ha Ha Ha... actually expecting a government entity to be on time... whew! You had me rolling on the floor...

Who's going to make them? The enforcement arm of the FCC- puhleeze. That's almost as good as the phrase "military-intelligence."

Don't take this the wrong way, I agree with you, to comply they should, but I doubt they're going to have every department, in every county migrated over in time.

 

[davidbond21]

Ah Ha Ha Ha... actually expecting a government entity to be on time... whew! You had me rolling on the floor...

Who's going to make them? The enforcement arm of the FCC- puhleeze. That's almost as good as the phrase "military-intelligence."

Don't take this the wrong way, I agree with you, to comply they should, but I doubt they're going to have every department, in every county migrated over in time.

I thought we were talking about SA? Didn't realize the city engulfed multiple counties.

Also, "christian science" is a better oxymoron. Or even better, "Microsoft Works."

But on a technical note, does anyone here in the know have an idea how this changeover is going to happen? I mean, they can't do everybody's radios at once, though conceivably they could do them speedily. Or is this going to be like a few years ago where the radio system was down for a few days(or maybe two weeks, i can remember the news bit on the tv about it, just not the length) for service or equipment replacement and all the officers(at least the PD/SO side of public safety that i know of) had to use their cell phones to communicate with dispatch and each other? Just curious.

 

[southtexasphantom]

Ah Ha Ha Ha... actually expecting a government entity to be on time... whew! You had me rolling on the floor...

Who's going to make them? The enforcement arm of the FCC- puhleeze. That's almost as good as the phrase "military-intelligence."

Don't take this the wrong way, I agree with you, to comply they should, but I doubt they're going to have every department, in every county migrated over in time.

Oh I don't expect any government entity to get things done on time. It took SA forever to work out the bugs on the Pro Voice system.

 

[mike_webb59]

There was some very unusual activity on the Live Oak system today. Almost like there was some testing going on. Is there someone who is monitoring with a Trunker Program, or any idea of the post-rebanding frequencies; is that something that's possibly derived from the current frequencies based on the Band Plan?