O/T: I'm going off the grid into the mountains for a week so response time to submissions will increase, or hold them until next weekend.
State of Delaware P25 Phase 2 (2025) Transition and observations
- Thread starter Audiodave1
- Start date
FD was told the 21st
So I was able to drive up to Hockessin and spend about 30-45 minutes monitoring the 01-17 (P25) / Site 7 (Mot SZ2) antenna site.
Absolutely no traffic populating on the Site 7 system. It's broadcasting, but there's nothing using it.
The P25 site (01-17) has a little bit of traffic coming across it. However, as I was leaving I noted that I lost the P25 site when I was about 1.5 miles away. I suspect that for testing or configuration they might be running it in a low power mode? Either way, here is data from UniTrunker and SDR Trunk on the 01-17 site. I noticed it also shows duplicated frequencies from Site 7, so I suspect that all of the Site 7 frequencies will be moved onto 01-17 after the cutover.
I've made a submission on this info.
Absolutely no traffic populating on the Site 7 system. It's broadcasting, but there's nothing using it.
The P25 site (01-17) has a little bit of traffic coming across it. However, as I was leaving I noted that I lost the P25 site when I was about 1.5 miles away. I suspect that for testing or configuration they might be running it in a low power mode? Either way, here is data from UniTrunker and SDR Trunk on the 01-17 site. I noticed it also shows duplicated frequencies from Site 7, so I suspect that all of the Site 7 frequencies will be moved onto 01-17 after the cutover.
I've made a submission on this info.
Still a significant amount of FD traffic on the legacy SmartZone site in Sussex. The Ocean City Fire Department does not have the Sussex Fire / EMS tgs programmed into its radios; that will occur in stages as the radios need to be physically touched - no compatible OTAP / WifI programming option with our Harris radios. My understanding is the OC radio people had requested the programming info several times so they could be ready for the switchover, but the people in Smyrna didn't respond in a timely manner - probably had their hands full. The police are a different matter since Delaware decided to go forward with a proprietary / non-P25 compliant encryption solution that is not compatible with Harris radios. I thought that once the police moved to the new system that they would transition to P25 AES, but apparently this is not the case. I'll try to clarify the situation.
DTC TGs from NCCo Site:
1441 N-WILFB3
1443 SW-STSUPV
1445 N-NMNT
1447 N-NMGRS
1459 N-WILGRP1
1469 N-WILEMG3
1483 N-CNTRCT
1495 K/S-DTC-DOV2
1497 N-WILDSP1
1499 N-WILDSP2
1501 N-WILDSP3
1507 K/S-DOVCOV2
1513 N-WILCOV3
Not sure if anybody would want to put this in the wiki or if any other listeners have any input to add on the topic, but below is the list of DE state parks and the channels that I'm pretty sure they use for park ops. Most of this has been confirmed thru monitoring. I have not seen a talkgroup for First State active on the new system, but there is a talkgroup listed for that park on the old system.
| TALKGROUP | STATE PARK |
| NP-BELLEVUE | Allapocas Run |
| NP-BELLEVUE | Auburn Valley |
| NP-BELLEVUE | Bellevue |
| NP-BELLEVUE | Brandywine Creek |
| SP-CAPE HEN | Cape Henlopen |
| SP-SEA SHORE | Delaware Seashore |
| SP-HOLTS | Fenwick Island |
| KP-FIRST ST | First State Heritage |
| NP-FORT DEL | Fort Delaware |
| NP-FORT DEL | Fort DuPont |
| NP-BELLVUE | Fox Point |
| SP-HOLTS | Holts Landing |
| KP-KILLENS | Killens Pond |
| NP-LUMS | Lums Pond |
| KP-KILLENS | Trap Pond |
| NP-WHITE | White Clay Creek |
| NP-BELLEVUE | Wilmington Parks (Brandywine Park/Zoo, Rockford, Fletcher Brown) |
