Some Rebanding Help

[lbfergus]

Hey guys. I have read some about rebanding, I know what the purpose of the rebanding is. However, I am very much a novice at scanning.

I haven't done anything with my pro-96 for rebanding. What do I need to do? I listen to mostly Marion County, Washington County, Multnomah County, Yamhill County, and Clackamas County. If I program in the CCO, do I still need to do more?

I have Washington County programmed in with the control channels in the 850's range, and I seem to be getting a lot of stuff, are there things I'm missing?

I just need a good direction, I know the answers are all out there, but I need to get a foundation to build on.

Thanks.

 

[joescanner]

Right now, the only systems in the northern part of the state that are affected by rebanding are the City of Salem "A" and "B" towers. You will need to update the firmware in your scanner (if you haven't already) and reprogram the system to use a "custom bandplan" - that part is scanner dependent.

Washington County is likely the next system that will cut over to the post-rebanding frequencies (which only affects, for the time being, the Clackamas County Simulcast and Clackamas County East Simulcast sites/zones); Multnomah County should be done before the end of the year.

Yamhill County (Newberg Only?) will probably go with Washington County, in the next few weeks. As of two days ago, I was hearing them on the "legacy" frequencies.

Washington County is also soon to be changing the structure of their system, and will add some new frequencies to their lineup. The database should be updated as soon as the new frequencies are live.

 

[ka3jjz]

The PRO-96 cannot be firmware-updated for rebanding. However, that doesn't shoot you out of the water - Win96 will allow you to enter the custom tables necessary to support it. It's displayed in this wiki article -

Win96 - The RadioReference Wiki

73 Mike

 

[K7MRT]

Washington County is also soon to be changing the structure of their system, and will add some new frequencies to their lineup. The database should be updated as soon as the new frequencies are live.

...and I'm hearing that these changes may be apparent within the next 2 weeks!!!

 

[lbfergus]

Yamhill County (Newberg Only?) will probably go with Washington County, in the next few weeks. As of two days ago, I was hearing them on the "legacy" frequencies..

So does that mean Yamhill will go onto the Washington/Clackamas systems and just have their own talk groups?

 

[PMJ2kx]

So does that mean Yamhill will go onto the Washington/Clackamas systems and just have their own talk groups?

I think Joe was referring to rebanded frequencies, not changing systems.

Yamhill County (all agencies, minus McMinnville [they have their own MPT-1327 system] and Newberg [ 800MHz]) uses a conventional 450MHz system. AFAIK, WCCCA has Yamhill's frequencies programmed into their radios, but I'm not so certain Newberg PS (Mac, or the rest of the county for that matter) has WCCCA's system in their radios. For instance, I've heard Newberg Fire told to respond on Newberg Ops 41, but then it's patched to 460.050 (Yamhill Countywide Fire Ops) so that Wash. Co. FD #2 or TVF&R can talk to Newberg's crews.

Yamhill County is in the works of bridging Mac and Newberg together with the rest of the county, because Newberg is tired of spending the money on their own dispatch center (i.e. not cost effective). Will they join up on WCCCA's system? Probably not anytime soon, only because the money isn't there. The last engineering firm that tried to unify the county wanted to build an MPT-1327 system, and wasted millions without even getting half of the project done. Props to ADCOMM Engineering for cleaning up the mess.

Newberg alone has thrown around the idea of joining WCCCA several times, but I don't think anything has gone that direction.

This, of course, is all based on secondhand information.

 

[lbfergus]

So if I do the rebanding, will that affect the whole scanner, do I do that for each bank, vScanner, or what? Also, if I do it now, will that cause problems with what I currently have programmed in? Will it mess up the current configurations?