State of Kentucky P25 7/800 Trunked Radio System

[BJ2021]

Any voice traffic

 

[buddrousa]

They were out testing today with all West Ky sites up and running

 

[buddrousa]

5 techs scattered over West Ky testing in buildings and on the roads all with portables.

 

[BJ2021]

Is it tdma or fdma system

 

[mastr]

(removed) I'm trying to restrain myself.

 

[buddrousa]

Not sure what the problem is but I logged the DATA and AUDIO today.

 

[BJ2021]

Does anyone know the frequency for Winchester and Lexington area

 

[19-685]

General question:

Does this system have any formal name like most of the other systems in surrounding states (i.e. Illinois STARCOM21, Tennessee TACN, Indiana SAFE-T, Ohio MARCS, etc.)?


General comment:
Back in the early 2000's when KSP switched from analog to their UHF P-25 conventional system, many of the sites/frequencies took months to be licensed in the FCC database regardless of post. That being said, it would be well advised to being searching the 768-774 Mhz band on a regular basis as this system comes on-line. PRO96COM, Unitrunker, Uniden SDS Discovery mode and the good old-fashioned SEARCH function will prove helpful in the coming days and weeks.


Glad to see this transition finally coming to the Bluegrass State.

 

[BJ2021]

I would what fancy name they will give the system

 

[19-685]

Just my 2 pennies worth.... how about KYWINS?

Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Network System

 

[19-685]

Does anyone know the frequency for Winchester and Lexington area

Nothing yet in FCC databse for those areas....

Nearest sites currently in FCC databse are two in the KSP Post 12 Frankfort area:

WRWM936 at Frankfort (Franklin County)
774.88125
774.48125
773.18125
772.45625
772.13125
771.85625

And WRWM935 at Shelbyville (Shelby County)
774.64375
773.38125
772.73125
772.40625
771.99375
770.79375

 

[19-685]

For KSP Post 01 Mayfield, the following sites are licensed in the FCC database as of 09-Aug-2023

Burna (Livingston County) - WROB218
774.43125
773.15625
772.60625
771.58125
771.30625
769.10625

Cadiz (Trigg County) - WRUD850
774.64375
772.64375
771.99375
771.60625
771.29375
769.78125

Clinton (Hickman County) - WRUD842
774.64375
773.94375
773.43125
772.03125
771.78125
771.20625

Farmington (Graves County) - WROA989
771.38125
771.13125
770.81875
770.55625
770.29375
769.75625

Grand Rivers (listed in Lyon County vs Livingston County) - WROA989
774.69375
773.70625
772.78125
772.43125
772.15625
770.30625

Murray (Calloway County) - WROB214
772.58125
772.30625
772.05625
771.80625
770.03125
769.08125

Paducah (McCracken County) - WROB217
771.18125
770.60625
770.10625
769.85625
769.60625
769.30625

Wickliffe (Ballard County) - WRUD849
771.18125
770.60625
770.10625
769.85625
769.60625
769.30625

 

[19-685]

For KSP Post 02 Madisonville, the following sites are licensed in the FCC database as of 09-Aug-2023

The Marion site (Crittenden County) will likely also provide coverage for northern Livingston County in KSP Post 01 Mayfield area.

Allegre (Todd County) - WROA986
772.93125
772.68125
772.40625
771.95625
771.68125
771.20625

Dixon (Webster County) - WRUC896
774.70625
772.73125
771.78125
771.10625
770.58125
769.33125

Dunmore (Muhlenberg County) - WRUD847
772.36875
771.90625
771.39375
771.04375
770.03125
769.25625

Greenville (Muhlenberg County) - WRUC895
774.65625
773.73125
773.48125
773.13125
772.80625
772.45625

Hopkinsville (Christian County) - WRUD848
770.85625
770.60625
770.36875
770.08125
769.61875
769.36875

Madisonville (Hopkins County) - WROB220
771.83125
771.26875
770.80625
770.50625
769.83125
769.50625

Marion (Crittenden County) - WROB 924
774.38125
773.65625
772.33125
771.96875
771.63125
769.55625

Needmore (Caldwell County) - WRUC889
772.85625
772.50625
772.03125
771.70625
771.44375
770.25625

Pleasant Hill (Christian County) - WRUC890
774.88125
774.48125
774.23125
773.95625
773.63125
773.23125

 

[19-685]

For KSP Post 16 Henderson, the following sites are licensed in the FCC database as of 09-Aug-2023

As with the current KSP UHF conventional system, the following two sites will likely cover both KSP Post 02 Madisonville and KSP Post 16 Henderson

Morganfield (Union County) - WRUC894
773.18125
772.55625
772.25625
771.48125
770.78125
770.53125

Sacramento (McLean County) - WROB717
774.40625
774.15625
773.38125
772.53125
771.45625
770.28125

 

[scannerboy02]

General question:

Does this system have any formal name like most of the other systems in surrounding states (i.e. Illinois STARCOM21, Tennessee TACN, Indiana SAFE-T, Ohio MARCS, etc.)?

In most of the documents I have seen it's referred to as the 'Kentucky State Police Emergency Radio System' (KSP ERS).

 

[scannerboy02]

General comment:
Back in the early 2000's when KSP switched from analog to their UHF P-25 conventional system, many of the sites/frequencies took months to be licensed in the FCC database regardless of post. That being said, it would be well advised to being searching the 768-774 Mhz band on a regular basis as this system comes on-line. PRO96COM, Unitrunker, Uniden SDS Discovery mode and the good old-fashioned SEARCH function will prove helpful in the coming days and weeks.

I wasn't living here at that time but generally speaking transmitting on a frequency you're not licensed for would be a big no, no. With that said, I agree that searching the frequency range is a very good idea.

Also as you mentioned, monitoring with software should allow one to see if any new or unknown neighbors get connected to the system. It may also be worth setting up something like a Broadcastify Calls node or other recording system to log and record radio traffic as early as possible as this can become very helpful in figuring out what the talk groups are going to be used for in the future.

As an example of this, when the CVG airport system came online I heard several mentions of the talk group aliases during testing and now that the system is in full use I rarely hear the aliases mentioned, it's usually just "switch to channel 2" or "switch to channel 1" now.

 

[BJ2021]

I look for around here in Lexington area be up and running soon

 

[scannerboy02]

Yes -95Db at Union City
Site 104
System 9C0h
NAC 9C2h
Control 774.64375

Just to confirm this is the Clinton site and it's IDing as site 01-04? The documents and FCC license show it as 01-05. Of course nothing says they actually have to go with that.

 

[catbird]

Just to confirm this is the Clinton site and it's IDing as site 01-04? The documents and FCC license show it as 01-05. Of course nothing says they actually have to go with that.

Farmington site 101
Golden Pond site 103
Clinton site 104
Paducah site 105
Burna site 107
Analyzing the Control Channel on each site

 

[BJ2021]

So the Frankfort site would cover Lexington to cause the UHF p25 post 12 covers Lexington