I heard RNC in Corner Brook still on conventional VHF in the clear, so I'd suggest they're not in on the P25 system at all.
I've "only" driven to Port Aux Basques with very little side-trips - that's planned for the trip back - and already I have a ton of info to add. I'm in PaB and the closest site I can find yet is Red Rocks (005-001). PRO96COM is helping nicely. There's another site somewhere nearby (004-001) according to neighbor data, but I ran out of day before I found it.
I have data for sites 4 (I'll just use the RFSS in this post, to make it easier), 5 (Red Rocks), 6 (St Andrews), 7 (Coal Brook), 8 and 9 (no idea where yet - only found neighbor data), 10 (Corner Brook), 11 (Deer Lake), 14 (Birchy Lake), 26 (see below), 30 (Springdale), 31 (Norris Arm I think), 32 (Appleton-Glenwood), 33 (Gander), 34 (Lewisporte), 35 (Carmanville), 36 (Musgrave Harbor), 37 (New-Wes-Valley), 38 (Terra Nova Park), 39 (Glovertown), 41 (Clarenville), 42 (not sure), 43 (maybe Harbor Breton), 44 (Stephenville), 45 (St Fintan's), 46 (Come by Chance), 48 (Eastport), 49 (Port Blandford), 50, 51.
Regarding 026-001 - I picked it up on my way up the Burin. It is really weird in that it is broadcasting six neighbors - three of which are site 026-001 as well! (36 is similar, advertising another 36 as its neighbor) I'm wondering if 26 is a "site" that actually has multiple sites along the 360 down the center of the province. I'm not sure if I'll have time to drive that route (it'd be nice if there was a ferry that took cars down in Harbor Breton), but if I do, I'll give it a shot.
Still assembling my data. Side trips on my way back around the province are in order, as well as a trip up the Northern Peninsula (I'm expecting that is probably where sites 15 thru 27 are). I'll try to post some of it as I get it dealt with.
For what it's worth, it appears the NAC for a site's channels is the hex value of that site. So if you have a P25 channel broadcasting 1F, that frequency belongs to site 31. (Note - this is not a standard practice for all P25 systems - just this one.)
I also found talkgroup 601 between Corner Brook and PaB. There were a number of units chattering on the channel, including Highway Patrol (if C cars are indeed HP here, and I think they would be). I heard a dispatcher ('97') at least once, doing a unit contact check. It didn't sound like a detachment channel (sounded more like they were doing a follow of a subject), but I could be wrong. Also worth mentioning is the fact that one of the members said at one point "Do you want to go back to the conventional channel?" when the comms were breaking up. That could mean a "conventional channel" in the same terms RR uses, i.e. a normal non-trunked frequency, or it could mean going back to the detachment talkgroup. Don't know yet.
