Stark County Ohio

[Volfirefighter]

Still Waiting on:

East Sparta / Tri-Division
Nimishillen Twp
Canton Twp
Perry Twp
Hartville

 

[xusmarine1979]

While at work today I did hear Canton Twp testing on their TG but I didn't catch much.

 

[Volfirefighter]

Nim, Canton Twp, and Perry have tested their TG. As far as East Sparta and Hartville, I have not even logged their TG.

 

[xusmarine1979]

Oh okay. I work up in Green so it's difficult to have the chance to listen during the day. But I'll certainly keep my ears open.

 

[Volfirefighter]

From the Old Stark System, the users that have yet to migrate are:

Canton City Sanitation
Canton City Hall Maintenance
Canton City Building/Code Enforcement
Canton City Water Treatment Plant
Canton City Traffic Engineering
Canton City Parking Enforcement
Canton City Street Department

Malone College Security

Parks Department (Formerly a City Department but now a County Department)

 

[xusmarine1979]

Why does it seem to be taking forever when Summit switched pretty quickly?

 

[jdgohus1]

I wish Cencomm would start dispatching Louisville PD so they would be in the clear. That would make me very very happy

 

[Volfirefighter]

Why does it seem to be taking forever when Summit switched pretty quickly?

I know the Canton City Service Departments were using older analog radios on the Stark County System that were hand-downs from Police & Fire when the old Canton City analog system was shut down after being merged into the Stark County System. The analog radios are not usable on MARCS Simulcast. These same service departments are now getiing hand-downs again from Police & Fire, XTS2500's that need flashed and re-programmed for use on MARCS Simulcast. This may account for the delay.

 

[Volfirefighter]

I wish Cencomm would start dispatching Louisville PD so they would be in the clear. That would make me very very happy

If it is the department's wishes to use encryption, then it would matter not what agency does the dispatching. Cencomm is just as capable of running encryption as is Cancomm.

 

[xusmarine1979]

It's certainly taking longer than I expected. But it will be nice once the majority of the county is on the system.

Being in Louisville myself, I sure do miss hearing them. But it is what it is.

 

[xusmarine1979]

It also appears that Louisville is still paging on their UHF channel.

 

[Volfirefighter]

It also appears that Louisville is still paging on their UHF channel.

Is the call information simulcast on MARCS? Quad ambulance does this as well.

 

[xusmarine1979]

It seems to be set up that way. They ran a call a little bit ago and heard the page on both but heard the traffic on MARCS.

 

[Volfirefighter]

This morning, Cencom was having trouble hearing Louisville units. The problem appears to be on Cencom's end because the Louisville units were coming across loud and clear for me.

 

[xusmarine1979]

Same here, Cencom was having trouble hearing the chief last night after they had tested their paging.

 

[wa8pyr]

Why does it seem to be taking forever when Summit switched pretty quickly?

My guess would be that Summit County has had a fairly unified communications plan for several years with most agencies already on 800 MHz, while Stark County was a hodgepodge of different systems and frequency bands requiring a lot more updating.

 

[fpo701]

It also helped that when Summit County moved to P25, they programmed in both the P25 zones and the MARCS zones. If you recall, it took a bit of time to get everyone off Summit800 and over to P25. The move to MARCS just meant getting everyone to switch zones on the radios.

Stark skipped that extra step and is going straight to MARCS.

 

[Volfirefighter]

I was just informed that the Old Stark County 800Mhz system will be shut down today.

 

[Volfirefighter]

I am getting no control channel on the Old Stark County System, so they did indeed shut it down.

 

[mtindor]

I am getting no control channel on the Old Stark County System, so they did indeed shut it down.

I'm still picking up the CC fine on 852.3125 as of 12:29 AM 3-30-2019. Maybe they just shut down some of the sites in the simulcast and I'm copying one that is closer to East Rochester (remote access monitoring post) than it is to your location.