Sevier County LTR?

[n4yek]

Just to let you know, ALL Fire Departments using the trunk are being paged out
on 451.400mhz (conventional mode)
Confirmed this yesterday during communications testing.

 

[wwhitby]

Will all of the volunteer fire departments be using this system, even if for nothing more then mutual aid?

BTW, I appreciate all the work that everyone has done to figure this system out.

Warren

 

[n4yek]

So far Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are choosing NOT to go to the trunk. Reasons unknown for their decision on that. Seymour done some testing, but still are using their old VHF freq
with LTR for mutual aid (previously stated in an earlier message).
All fire departments received grants from the Government which is allowing all the fire departments to buy the new radios. Pigeon Forge Fire bought a, I believe it was called
a 'Gator' multi-purpose vehicle with their money and upgraded some of the old equipment,
this was in the newspaper the other day.
I do not know what Gatlinburg done with their money.

 

[whooey]

Time for a 30 day bump, any news?

 

[cwe909]

for what model, trying to propgram rs 1250 i believe

help with sevier county trunck to put in to scanner

 

[n4yek]

help with sevier county trunck to put in to scanner

Did a search on the internet for a RS 1250, never heard of it and I found no information on one either.
Is this the actual scanner model number?
Let me know and I will see if I can help you out.

 

[cwe909]

scanner

scanner is a radio shack pro-2051. its for one of my fellow ff's. got all freqs for sevier co trunk, just know how to program them in to work in trunked mode? thanks sorry guess gave wrong model. thanks

 

[n4yek]

scanner is a radio shack pro-2051. its for one of my fellow ff's. got all freqs for sevier co trunk, just know how to program them in to work in trunked mode? thanks sorry guess gave wrong model. thanks

Ok try this and see if it helps you out, found these elsewhere on on the forum.
These are 2 people trying to get an LTR system programmed in a pro-2051.
Hope this helps you.

First thing, Make Sure the BANK is set to LTR!!!

Go to your manuel page 48, step 1. It is pretty straight forward from there but I will admit a first time user will find it confusing for like most Rad Shack manuels are poor. You need to know what type of trunking system ( MOT, EDACS or LTR etc ). EDACS and LTR systems will need to be entered in the correct channel order & a bank of their own. Push Func, PGM then trunk, from there you need to push the bank number you wish to use ( bank 1 thru 10 ). Once you pushed the bank # you want it will bring up the trunk mode you wish to use, use your up/ down arrows to select then push E to select ( in step 1 it list the types to select from ). After your selection the Prog F will appear and push E, select the ch # or #'s with the arrows and enter the freq and hit E. After you entered your freqs just hit the SRCH and the 2051 will now be scanning/ trunking in open mode, if it stops on a TG that you wish to save just push E. Pushing the SRCH while in scan mode will switch you from open to closed mode.

Bucko, I think I got it right. I followed all your steps, then I put them in just like you said. For example, I did Milwaukee Area Technical College, in Milwaukee, WI. Its an LTR system, so in the trunking fnct. I seletced Lt, then I saw the Prog F. I pressed enter. I did this in Bank 3, then it brought up the numbers 201,202,203,204 and so on. If the frequencies were in order like shown below, was I correct in putting 01 in the 201, nothing in 202, in 203 860.2125, and 204 854.0125? I hope you can understand what I am trying to say. Thanks again for all the help!!!

Thanks
Adam

01 856.21250 02 N/A 03 860.21250 04 854.01250

I think I got it for Milwaukee County Transit System. When it stopped on a TG, I programmed that one by pressing enter. Then I went to the site here and programmed the rest of them in. Do they have to be in order? and when the scanner stops on one, and I press hold, will it pick up conversations from the other TG's I have programmed in? if not, how can I manually scan through them? Thanks again for the help!

Adam

If the database gave the LCN order for this LTR system as 01 856.21250 02 N/A 03 860.21250 04 854.01250 then yes. 201 would be correct for 01 and 203 would be skipped being it is N/A etc. The TG do not have to be in order, when push hold you will only hear that TG and can step through the TG's with the up/ down arrows and also program more TG's in the empty sub-bank. Hope this answered what you wanted to know.

 

[CAPTLPOL1]

How active are the Constables around there?

 

[n4yek]

How active are the Constables around there?

They have them, you see them from time to time, but thats about it.

 

[whooey]

Vacation update:

OK, I am here, staying in Pigeon Forge. This place and Gatlinburg is one big Carnival BTW, especially in Gatlinburg, every 90 feet someone is yelling, trying to get your attention to go to their booth to solicit you for a service, goods, etc. Very annoying. If you love minature golf and pancakes, you'll love it here!!!:lol:

Anyways, onto the scannign report. I am on a mountain, 1 mile from Pigeon Forge city limits. I hear almost no traffic on the LTR. I have it programmed right, that isnt the problem. I am on top of a mountain listening to a Pro97 with a diamond RHC77A( I think thats it). I have all the conventional freqs from the data base and hear them nonstop. This includes Gatlinburg PD, Pigeon Forge PD, Sevier Co Sheriff, and various voluteer fire dept, and EMS Tac channels.

I ahve had a feww hits on the LTR, but thats only 8-10% of the coms I'm hearing.

 

[n4yek]

Well with the LTR, you will only get Sheriff and local Fire Departments (except Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg) along with the Rescue Squad. That being the case, 80 percent of the comms will be Sheriff. It isn't extremely active but there is enough activity to keep it busy. Sometimes you can go 10 minutes before hearing anything, then other times it will be quite active. It just depends on the moment.
Most comms you will hear will be conventional, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg PD's make up most
traffic in the county and since they aren't on the Trunk system that leaves only about 10% of comms as you have seen.
Take care and have fun in the area here.

 

[whooey]

Take care and have fun in the area here.

Thanks, I have had a blast. Heading home on Fri.

 

[n4yek]

Bump.

 

[david_the_lion]

Fire Comm Testing

I notice that at 6:00pm daily (?) that Central does communication testing. Do they also test in the a.m.? Also, it appears that Sevierville Police Dept has finally switched to Sevier county trunk LTR with TGID's of 0-11-205 and 0-13-205. The conventional freq 460.075 sounds like it is in test mode with steady tones off and on.

 

[tennesseefreq]

What site are you seeing 0-11-205 on im just seeing 0-15-205 on the Sevierville site and
0-13-205 on the Newport site? Also had some testing the day before the switched over on 0-15-206.

 

[david_the_lion]

My Mistake

It was my mistake. I mean't to type 15 instead of 11. Glad to see someone is reading these posts to keep me honest. How can you tell which site is transmitting? I am a newbie with a PRO 433 and BC246T. I am definitely not up to speed on LTR trunking. I would love to have one of my computers track the LTR but I do not know how to put a discrimator tap "whatever that is" in a radio. Do the constables have there own frequency to use?

 

[n4yek]

How can you tell which site is transmitting?

By what frequency is being used.
453.5125 Mhz
453.6125 Mhz (LCN 11 on English Mtn.)
453.6500 Mhz Are listed under the Newport Site

451.0750 Mhz
453.8750 Mhz
460.0250 Mhz Are listed under the Sevierville Site (LCN 11 on Bluff Mtn)
460.6250 Mhz is still at its original location On Bluff Mtn

460.1125 Mhz is listed under the Gatlinburg Site (LCN 11 on Mt Harrison)

As for the 3 different LCN 11's, I just make 3 banks Identical to each other with the exception of LCN 11.
If in the Gatlinburg area, use Gatlinburg LCN 11, If in Newport use Newport LCN 11, Sevierville use Sevierville LCN 11.

But which site is transmitting, in my opinion, is a moot point. Just enter the freqs in the correct LCN and monitor away.

 

[n4yek]

Just a note:
I noticed that the Newport Site started having problems Monday evening with the audio.
At around 9pm, the audio was broken up so bad you could not understand what was being said
and then about 5 minutes later their was nothing but dead carrier when keyed up.
About 9:30pm the Newport Site shut down and is no longer transmitting.
Take care and have a good evening.

 

[tennesseefreq]

Heard Central tone Sevier County fire and told them to keep their radios set on the Bluff Mtn site. Then the radio service came up on Sevier County fire and told one of their members that the link between Bluff and English was down and that he would have it fixed by 8 AM. Then Central toned the rescue squad and advise them to keep radios set on the English Mtn site.