Much appreciated. Thankyou.
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Much appreciated. Thankyou.
mjohnston4
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I was just visiting my buddy who works for West Valley Fire and their chief came in and mentioned that tomorrow they are doing the switchover. Not sure if that is just West Valley Fire or all fire agencies in Yamhill County. Just thought I would let everyone know.
PMJ2kx
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Ooh..thanks for the heads up!
mjohnston4
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Yeah it was a heads up for me too, I need to go to Yamhill County and have our 4 portables re-programmed so they will work with the system after tomorrow.
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Why didn't you ask him?
mjohnston4
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Today at work I talked to the radio person with Yamhill County and he said they switched over today at 6am. Tomorrow I am going to Mac to get my works radios switched.
Im out of Oregon right now, one of my buds told me that ycom tapped out a fire at walmart in mac? Anyone know anything? That was this morning supposedly..
Heard the tapout about noon, but did not hear anything on what they had.
PMJ2kx
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3rd alarm residential fire in Yamhill on Ops 2 (460.275 PL 97.4). I can hear it fairly well from where I am, which is surprising.
Im listening right now. I hope they dont go to Training 4- which is a simplex channel. Lol.
PMJ2kx
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On large fires, they have before...as far as I recall...
I've got to go to work, so post if anything interesting happens.
I hope everyones ok, I count roughly 24 units so far with engines still comin.
Yeah, its pretty powerful- I heard it with little static this past weekend when I was in Vancouver.
Hmm. Seems that Yamhill County hasnt programmed their radios to decode and encode PL 97.4 because they are getting "static" on law. I have heard it before on that channel, and it sounds like data interference ( beeping static and such )- As of about 15mns ago because of that noise they decided to switch to ops 1, which sounds to me like its not finished yet because I get terrible reception, all I can hear is that roller coaster simulcasting noise when they talk. Sounds absolutely terrible. And right now- I am line of sight with the High Heaven tower.
Well they I bet they have it set for PL encode, but not decode on the radios. Because I could only hear the interference when I have mine in CSQ mode.
I'm sure when the system is finished with no other maintenance to be done they will retouch the radios again and get rid of the old multicast channels and deal with the PL tones and all that.
As for fire tones, they are still on VHF. I don't think that will change- but they are still on individual repeaters for that (north, west, south and central...). It would be cool if that system went simulcast.
And as for OPS 1, at this point my scanner wont even pick up that channel.. So seems like they have some work to do.
I'm sure when the system is finished with no other maintenance to be done they will retouch the radios again and get rid of the old multicast channels and deal with the PL tones and all that.
As for fire tones, they are still on VHF. I don't think that will change- but they are still on individual repeaters for that (north, west, south and central...). It would be cool if that system went simulcast.
And as for OPS 1, at this point my scanner wont even pick up that channel.. So seems like they have some work to do.
PMJ2kx
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It sounded better than WCCCA does on my normal drive to work in Tualatin. I had crystal clear reception almost all the way! 
Law and Fire channels are not up yet or at least not finished what ever they are doing. The intent is to have al fire calls be on the Fire channel as primary and if it gets bussy, they will move to Ops 1 and so on. Same thing with the Law channel. Ops channels wil be assigned by YCOM to either fire or pd so you might hear fire one time and law the next on those Ops channels.
It sounded better than WCCCA does on my normal drive to work in Tualatin. I had crystal clear reception almost all the way!
Lol I just read this post.. Late I know... But thats really funny because I can drive into McMinnville and have clear as can be reception from WCCCA... But nothing from the Simulcast system. Hahaha!
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