SIRN

[mtindor]

Oh wow! they have plans in up the power from 10 or 25 watts to 100 watts..... Maybe when the change it out I can actually pick it up at the house. I wonder if this was to help with a small area north of Raleigh County. I remember our fire dept. was willing to provide their tower site for SIRN location.

How do you [we] know the current wattage is 10-25 watts? This license is a new license, and my guess is that SIRN finally got around to getting licensed freqs for the system so they can abandon use of the 454 mhz paging spectrum there. I would guess that all along the 454 freqs were a tempmorary thing . There are one or two other sites on SIRN with 454 freqs and I would guess that eventually they would also be replaced by a new batch of freqs specifically licensed to SIRN.

Hopefully they are simply running lower power now, nad that after they change out freqs they will boost the power for you guys.

mike

 

[wvscanner]

It may been 35 watts. I know I have had comments in the past when it came online being so low power. When it was so quickly setup it was so they could get it going for the coverage for the Boy Scouts Jamboree. This tower even along the interstate does not even have the distance of 10 miles.

 

[jclendenen]

Active Greenbrier TGs

Caught some more Greenbrier County TGs active on White Sulphur Springs: 5301, 5305, 5314, 5315, 5316, 5320, 5323, 5329, 5332, 5333, 5353, 5380, 5382, 5384, 5390

 

[ab8sn]

Hey Guys

Any of you that monitor in the north central part of the state could you check into the Roanoke Site in Lewis Co? It may now be online but is not listed in the DB. A few days ago I heard Upshur Co speaking with a unit in the field on Reg 4 Command saying that possibly some mishap with the Tallmansville Site may have put Roanoke in Site Trunking, this makes me think that it may be online now. If someone near Lewis/Harrison Co could check into this it would be greatly appreciated

73s

Chad

 

[mtindor]

Hey Guys

Any of you that monitor in the north central part of the state could you check into the Roanoke Site in Lewis Co? It may now be online but is not listed in the DB. A few days ago I heard Upshur Co speaking with a unit in the field on Reg 4 Command saying that possibly some mishap with the Tallmansville Site may have put Roanoke in Site Trunking, this makes me think that it may be online now. If someone near Lewis/Harrison Co could check into this it would be greatly appreciated

73s

Chad

Chad,

Weston (Lewis) is theone that SIRN folks call Roanoke.

Mike

 

[ab8sn]

Ok thx Mike I wasn't aware that was the same site I know going up I-79 there is a SIRN tower housing several microwave dishes near the Roanoke Exit. I was thinking that was the Roanoke Site and the Weston site was seperate, thus two different ones.

73s and thanks for the insight

Chad

 

[BM82557]

WestCom Talkgroups

The WestCom Med talkgroups are active on the Berkeley County site from time to time. The other day Valley Grove Unit 551 was enroute to Wheeling. WestCom is not listed in the Statewide EMS info here - Statewide EMS Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference. What is WestCom and is it in the Wheeling/Northern Panhandle region?

 

[fredva]

According to the Medical Command SIRN Talkgroup SOP document, WESTCOM is located in Parkersburg and handles Region 5 EMS patient reports, medical orders, and medevac requests. It is also the backup medcom for Region 6-11's medcom at WVU.

That page you are looking at may be a little dated - the SOP document indicates that there are now five medical command centers in WV, not just two at WVU and Charleston.

 

[brucewarming]

TG 8027 was active this morning (Berkeley County) The U.S. Marshal Service uses the 8000 series. It sounded like they were doing search's for persons.

 

[Bubba1661]

TG 8027 was active this morning (Berkeley County) The U.S. Marshal Service uses the 8000 series. It sounded like they were doing search's for persons.

Added to the Database. Keep them coming.

 

[BM82557]

TG 8027 was active this morning (Berkeley County) The U.S. Marshal Service uses the 8000 series. It sounded like they were doing search's for persons.

Here's my log of 80xx and 81xx talkgroups on the Berkeley County site, the rightmost column contains the hit count -

 

[BM82557]

Berkeley Springs site 001-047

Forgot to include the site neighbors in the submission -

 

[Bubba1661]

Forgot to include the site neighbors in the submission -

Got them, Thanks!

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

Preston County 911 has recently transferred radio communications with Law Enforcement from conventional analog (legacy system) to a digital trunked system on the West Virginia Statewide Interoperable Radio Network (WVSIRN). The majority of the Counties have done so across the entire State of West Virginia. Please do not remove your old law enforcement frequencies, as when important information needs to be broadcasted, we will broadcast it across the legacy system as well. There are a few channels that will be encrypted for officer safety reasons. Calls dispatched by Preston County 911 will be dispatched on an open channel with no encryption, which will allow for interoperability with mutual aide units. If you would like the new scanner information, it can be viewed on websites such as RadioReference.com - Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference or possibly on an FCC site. Radio frequencies are not governed by local authority, however by the FCC. Some of you may have to upgrade your scanner to one that will receive the newer system. Contrary to some recent posts by others, information is not being withheld. The information is public on websites already in existence.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/PRESTON-CO-E-911OEM/115891388434009?fref=nf

 

[wv8mat]

Does anyone here use an SDR USB Dongle and Computer to monitor the SIRN system? If so please contact me kd8omt@gmail.com. I lost my digital scanner to a power serge and I have a SDR that some say will work.

Thanks
Matt, Mason Co WV

 

[mike_s104]

Does anyone here use an SDR USB Dongle and Computer to monitor the SIRN system? If so please contact me kd8omt@gmail.com. I lost my digital scanner to a power serge and I have a SDR that some say will work.

Thanks
Matt, Mason Co WV

It will decode the transmissions but I don't believe it will track like a digital trunking scanner.

 

[fredva]

Here is a tutorial showing how it can be done: RTL-SDR Tutorial: Following Trunked Radio with Unitrunker - rtl-sdr.com

This method requires two SDR dongles: one to monitor the control channel, and another to receive the voice transmission.

I haven't used SDR to monitor SIRN but I've experimented with it on about three other trunking systems. For digital systems, you need a good signal for quality decoding of the transmissions. If your computer is older (like mine), you probably need to dedicate the computer to only the SDR trunking and decoding function and not expect to be doing browsing and other things at the same time, due to the horsepower required.

 

[Ghstwolf62]

With two dongles DSD+ and Unitrunker you can trunk track a system just fine. I run STARS that way sometimes and it works great.

I saw something a week or two ago about doing it with one dongle but don't know what all that was about. Don't see how but there is a thread somewhere about it. So it might possible I suppose. Two work great and they're under 20 bucks

 

[mike_s104]

With two dongles DSD+ and Unitrunker you can trunk track a system just fine. I run STARS that way sometimes and it works great.

I saw something a week or two ago about doing it with one dongle but don't know what all that was about. Don't see how but there is a thread somewhere about it. So it might possible I suppose. Two work great and they're under 20 bucks

Very cool. I was looking at getting one this week but I may just end up getting 2 then. Thanks for correcting me.

 

[wvscanner]

Here is a tutorial showing how it can be done: RTL-SDR Tutorial: Following Trunked Radio with Unitrunker - rtl-sdr.com

This method requires two SDR dongles: one to monitor the control channel, and another to receive the voice transmission.

I haven't used SDR to monitor SIRN but I've experimented with it on about three other trunking systems. For digital systems, you need a good signal for quality decoding of the transmissions. If your computer is older (like mine), you probably need to dedicate the computer to only the SDR trunking and decoding function and not expect to be doing browsing and other things at the same time, due to the horsepower required.

So, if I'm interested in trying something like this where did you order yours so I can make sure I'm getting the right device?
Thank You,
Jeff