Somerset County Trunked to Warren County

[edisonfire]

On the occasional overnight when Atlantic City would boom in on 154.025 I would hear the sultriest sexiest voice saying 'wide awake' wide awake. Mind you this voice may have been the furthest thing from the individual speaking those words, but a young boy can just fantasize.

 

[robbinsj2]

so would county be receiving us even with a hardline patch through the uhf and be subject to the tropo on their end?

If you're on a Middlesex County system talkgroup and you have a hard patch between that and Somerset's Region 3 then the Somerset consoles ought to hear you just fine and you'll hear them just fine, there are no UHF-T channels between the two of you.

The DTV interference doesn't cause problems with Somerset's system/ wired infrastructure, it causes RF interference to units receiving and transmitting on those T-band channels. Conceptually it's similar to others trying to talk into the system from its geographic margins and having poor service whereas you're in a good coverage spot, except instead of the difference being location it is the frequency band you're on (Middlesex's 700MHz vs. Somerset's UHF-T).

Now I'm taking your word for it being a "hard patch," as in a direct wire/ microwave/ IP/ whatever link between the systems. If the actual connection relies upon transmitting into and receiving from Somerset's system on the UHF-T channels, even if from a console patch, then you indeed are at risk of adverse effects of the DTV tropo. So what I've written is rather speculative, you should go to your sys admin/ techs and present the concern and listen to their answers given the insight which they have into how it could/would be configured.

 

[mdsxfire]

If you're on a Middlesex County system talkgroup and you have a hard patch between that and Somerset's Region 3 then the Somerset consoles ought to hear you just fine and you'll hear them just fine, there are no UHF-T channels between the two of you.

The DTV interference doesn't cause problems with Somerset's system/ wired infrastructure, it causes RF interference to units receiving and transmitting on those T-band channels. Conceptually it's similar to others trying to talk into the system from its geographic margins and having poor service whereas you're in a good coverage spot, except instead of the difference being location it is the frequency band you're on (Middlesex's 700MHz vs. Somerset's UHF-T).

Now I'm taking your word for it being a "hard patch," as in a direct wire/ microwave/ IP/ whatever link between the systems. If the actual connection relies upon transmitting into and receiving from Somerset's system on the UHF-T channels, even if from a console patch, then you indeed are at risk of adverse effects of the DTV tropo. So what I've written is rather speculative, you should go to your sys admin/ techs and present the concern and listen to their answers given the insight which they have into how it could/would be configured.

ok that’s what i thought, i don’t know and am not sure if anyone knows yet what type of patch is going to be used, so the amount of problems we could have solely communicating with county depends heavily on the patch type, i guess like everything else we deal with we will see once it goes live

 

[FT752]

ok that’s what i thought, i don’t know and am not sure if anyone knows yet what type of patch is going to be used, so the amount of problems we could have solely communicating with county depends heavily on the patch type, i guess like everything else we deal with we will see once it goes live

WE'LL DO IT LIVE!