State of Delaware - P25 Phase 1 System (2024)

[trailhiker73]

At this point, Kent County Fire and EMS seems to utilizing the P25 site quite a bit now from dispatch, ops, and hospital channels.

As I monitor the New Castle County site, I’m not hearing much from Fireboard. I occasionally hear traffic on Tac-3, but that’s about it.

I am hearing traffic on the New Castle County site with Animal Control and TMC, so I’m wondering what the status is with Fire and EMS traffic? I thought I read that a full statewide switchover from the legacy to the P25 system was to be in February, so I wonder what the challenges were with that time frame 🤔

 

[magiclightman]

At this point, Kent County Fire and EMS seems to utilizing the P25 site quite a bit now from dispatch, ops, and hospital channels.

As I monitor the New Castle County site, I’m not hearing much from Fireboard. I occasionally hear traffic on Tac-3, but that’s about it.

I am hearing traffic on the New Castle County site with Animal Control and TMC, so I’m wondering what the status is with Fire and EMS traffic? I thought I read that a full statewide switchover from the legacy to the P25 system was to be in February, so I wonder what the challenges were with that time frame 🤔

I believe the Fire/EMS agencies in Kent were directed to start using the new system on their radios. No such directive has been given to the NCC agencies yet, I assume as testing is still underway as evinced by there being activity/no activity on the Fire TGs.

I can also confirm that the out of county/out of state mutual aid companies will be adding the fire/ems TGs to their units now that the SOD system will be P25. There will be no patching of the IOP to a Tac channel just for mutual aid calls as the units will be on TAC3/TAC4 directly.

 

[maus92]

So the new system is the system that will allow for programming of the Unication G5 700/800? I have mine programmed for MD but want DE for Sussex Fire/EMS.

I can attest that the G5 works well on this system.

 

[hey]

The G5 and the SDS100/200 work very good with the new system. Only thing is that the State of Delaware and Motorola is taking time putting the system fully online

 

[maus92]

Some of the larger systems can take a year or more before they are finally accepted and become fully operational after the first sites start transmitting RF.

 

[Bill24]

I am going to Sussex Delaware this weekend, does anyone have a G5 UHF-D 700/800 Codeplug they are willing to share so I can compare mine

 

[maus92]

I am going to Sussex Delaware this weekend, does anyone have a G5 UHF-D 700/800 Codeplug they are willing to share so I can compare mine

You will need to specify your firmware version on the G5 and your PPS version.

 

[Bill24]

You will need to specify your firmware version on the G5 and your PPS version.

PPS V0.4.0.41
Firmware V 2.03

 

[maus92]

My test config only includes the Sussex site and the single "wildcard" / Allcall talk group of 65535 (FFFF) - likely not what you are looking for. There is info in this thread about the likely tg assignments based on the current SmartZone tgs and some math if you wanted to build a more useful configuration.