Starcom21 (Non) Issues Here
Whatever it is I don't have the bleed over issues here on sites 1-026 Kane and 1-046 McHenry. The LITH/Huntley PDs and Algonquin PDs have had some minor outages, they go to Failsoft mode for that site. Outage usually less than 30 mins. I can see the control channel appear great on the spectrum one second and then instantly vanish. Like techs are switching cables, doing some work. Then the PDs start complaining. But it depends on whose tower the patrol cars are affiliating with at the particular time. Some cars working off the 1-046 McHenry site or others and don't have the issue. Then they try to figure out who can "hear" and who can't. I've also noticed that in SDRTrunk, there will be a notice given in the data packets, such as "Planned Control Channel Outage" with times listed. Nice to know. During our big storm last week, I was monitoring the whole time sites 1-046 and site 1-015 Lake Co, and they used up every last frequency...and I really didn't hear any major problems or glitches due to overloading Starcom21 and/or RX loss. I was impressed. Sounded like it all worked fine in an emergency. Can't ask for more.