Sedgwick County P25 Problems/Changes?

[ks13645]

Anybody else having more trouble than usual monitoring the Sedgwick County trunked system, particularly on the East side? Normally I can hear it reasonably well in Augusta with an XTS5000, but for the last couple of days, it's garbled until I get to Andover. I had to take the SG Law feed down because it got so bad.

I tried a different radio, adding a pre-amp, changing cables, nothing seemed to help. Even in NE Wichita, some transmissions are garbled. Seems like maybe there's a problem at one of the sites, or maybe the county has made changes to the P25 simulcast timing or power settings?

Usually the control channel bout -90dBm on the control channel in Augusta, but now it's way down in the noise, more like -105 to -110. Pretty much unusable. Any thoughts?

 

[ks13645]

Whatever the problem was, sounds like they got it straightened out! Sedgwick Law feed is back up.

 

[pallen444]

p25

A cheep system should have went with motorola lol.

 

[scanningisfun]

Radio shop was working on finding the issue for a while, taking different sites off line at times. Conventional backup repeaters were never used during the outage, but KHP switched operations to Metro 1 on the state system.

Jacob

 

[ks13645]

Thanks for the info!

Glad to know it wasn't a problem with my setup.

Do you happen to know what they found to be the problem? Just curious...

 

[KansasGuy]

Does anyone know if this problem has been completely resolved?
I am still getting (very) random garbled audio. Mostly by dispatch.

 

[KansasGuy]

Please disregard. It must have been my 65 year old ears.
No problems.

 

[scanningisfun]

Thanks for the info!

Glad to know it wasn't a problem with my setup.

Do you happen to know what they found to be the problem? Just curious...

GPS synchronization issue at the Downtown site.

Jacob

 

[KansasGuy]

Thank you.