State of Kentucky P25 7/800 Trunked Radio System

[catbird]

Thank you sir

 

[btlacer]

I live in Henderson, would you like me to start monitoring the frequencies listed for Union County?

 

[KyFireFreak]

Absolutely, every little bit helps us in figuring out this system...

 

[red8]

This is a great example of how the big M sells a sub-par system. If you look at the proposal, the coverage is horrible within the county for portable coverage. To think that this is the solution to their communications problem is a total joke. What a waste of the taxpayers money and sad to see them put first responders at risk. Hopefully someone within the county's first responder community or a knowledgeable citizen can be at the meeting to ask the hard questions to Motorola so they can be exposed for the pile of feces they are trying to sell the county.

Just look at Henderson county. They needed four sites within the county to get the coverage, one of which the big M had to pay for because they they did not meet their coverage guarntee with only three sites. And we are supposed to think that one site in Marshall county is going to work with one site in the county. That site cannot cover the county on P25 VHF, how in the world is anyone expected to think that it would work with a single 700/800 site.

I am pretty sure they will remedy that with a couple of more sites. We are on a 700,/ 800 system here in Louisiana with LWIN, and the found a few spots where reception was not at its best. They had to add a tower. LWIN covers 99% of the entire state. These systems are designed are for interoperability. They have come a long way from the days of the "TIN CAN" radios. I remember when 800 came out , a lot of agencies were down right scared of them . I mean a supervisor could talk to another supervisor or one of his subordinates in private without other ears listening. And if a radio got lost or stolen a system manager could remove the radio from service. One of the things I liked the was the emergency button . Should an officer get trouble, all they had to do was push that orange button and the calvary was on its way.

 

[kd4bas]

Il'l also keep an ear out for Union, Webster, and Henderson counties

 

[19-685]

Drove down I-69 from Henderson to Hopkinsville today.

The following sites are confirmed as active:
Allegre (Todd County)
Dixon (Webster County)
Greenville (Muhlenberg County)
Pleasant Hill (Christian County)
Sacramento (Muhlenberg County)

PRO96COM data has been submitted to the database for updates.

19-685

 

[19-685]

Drove down I-69 from Henderson to Hopkinsville today.

The following sites are confirmed as active:
Allegre (Todd County)
Dixon (Webster County)
Greenville (Muhlenberg County)
Pleasant Hill (Christian County)
Sacramento (Muhlenberg County)

PRO96COM data has been submitted to the database for updates.

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Correction... Sacramento is in McLean County, not Muhlenberg County

Additional note: no sites were transmitting neighbor lists.

3-111 Sacramento
3-112 Allegre
3-113 Pleasant Hill
3-118 Greenville
3-119 Dixon

 

[19-685]

Per PR096COM, the Cadiz site is showing the following neighbor sites:
Farmington and Grand Rivers

 

[19-685]

3-117 is Hopkinsville

This site appears to be very directional in nature (coverage for areas north of Hopkinsville) whereas the Pleasant Hill is for coverage south of Hopkinsville.

 

[KG4EMJ]

Was talking with an old friend this past weekend who's an avid radio guy and KSP dispatcher. He says they're having "lots of problems" with getting the new system sorted out. His post was supposed to be turned on as a test bed for the system and they haven't even switched it on to test it yet. Says it's going to be quite a long time before the new system goes active, so scanner hobbyists still have a long while left to enjoy listening.

 

[mastr]

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

Was talking with an old friend this past weekend who's an avid radio guy and KSP dispatcher. He says...they haven't even switched it on to test it yet....

 

[buddrousa]

So there are several of us that are actively monitoring the system and following the radio techs testing the system. Now as for the Dispatcher they may not have the radios turned on in the Dispatch Center in Mayfield Ky Post 1. But that still does not stop the 4 to 5 techs driving the roads testing sites and also testing the system in the County and City Schools.

 

[KG4EMJ]

I don't see where the funny face comes from. I said dispatch hasn't even seen it turned on for them to test yet. Which, they haven't. Which, is exactly what a scanning hobbyist would be concerned about because that's when things will be close to changing.

A few guys from Motorola out doing their own testing BEFORE anything official happens is a completely different ballgame. That doesn't really mean anything to somebody sitting at home.

When we developed a new web-based software at work a few years ago, we had a separate "test" version that was operated on a totally different server that we used to try and find bugs. It had absolutely zero to do with the "production" version that was running on the web address users could get to.

 

[buddrousa]

Well this is how it was done in Tennessee Mississippi Missouri and the rest of the states that have a Statewide System. I had lunch today with a TACN Rep and we talked about the samething the Radio Shops testing before the System was turned over to THP and the other users.
When the System is handed over to KSP it will have been tested and bugs worked out of it.

 

[ofd8001]

That makes sense - the installing company is going to do testing before they turn it over to the ultimate customer (KSP). Then that ultimate customer is going to do their own testing.

 

[red8]

Motorola did the same thing. In fact they did both even have the comm center. It started out being built as an addition to Sheriff's Substation, the dispatch console was not even put in yet. In fact when I went for training, the techs from Motorola were working getting the system on line . And when it was in the planning stage. A couple of from State Police and Motorola came out to the Parish Prison where I worked at with a radio to test out. The range was really awesome. In fact when we actually got the radios one could actually talk from Baton Rouge over as far almost Slidell La. And that was handheld to handheld .This an 800 Mhz. Trunk radio. This system was designed for interoperability, turned out it was back in 88. The system we have now is far better.the one we had earlier .

 

[red8]

Motorola did the same thing. In fact they did both even have the comm center. It started out being built as an addition to Sheriff's Substation, the dispatch console was not even put in yet. In fact when I went for training, the techs from Motorola were working getting the system on line . And when it was in the planning stage. A couple of from State Police and Motorola came out to the Parish Prison where I worked at with a radio to test out. The range was really awesome. In fact when we actually got the radios one could actually talk from Baton Rouge over as far almost Slidell La. And that was handheld to handheld .This an 800 Mhz. Trunk radio. This system was designed for interoperability, turned out it was back in 88. The system we have now is far better.the one we had earlier .

And this was in Louisiana.

 

[mastr]

I have enough to do without this. I will leave it to the "scanning hobbyist".

 

[red8]

It is abit complicated.

 

[celltech25]

Maybe by 2030 we will see it turned up