state Police Thruway switching to Narrowband today....?

[lafd55]

Listening to SP Thruway and there is talk about switching to a program on the radio to switch to narrow band. Anyone have any other information?

 

[GTR8000]

They are testing the narrowband programming all week, and should have the switchover completed by the weekend. The repeaters and radios were already programmed, it was just a matter of final on-air testing and getting everyone switched over. The frequencies remain the same, just a change in bandwidth/deviation.

Also, just for the benefit of those who read this thread and don't realize how the Thruway operates...it's not "SP Thruway" you're listening to, it's the entire NYS Thruway Authority on 453.425 and 453.525 (simulcast), which includes NYSP Troop T.

 

[Mtnrider]

Also might be interesting to listen to the other freqs listed in the database......i hear them at our shop testing as well

 

[lafd55]

Also, just for the benefit of those who read this thread and don't realize how the Thruway operates...it's not "SP Thruway" you're listening to, it's the entire NYS Thruway Authority on 453.425 and 453.525 (simulcast), which includes NYSP Troop T.

Yea, which get's annoying sometimes because you will hear calls from down by the southern end of the Thruway when all I care about is around albany, lol, even 88 I don't really care about.

 

[n2jtx]

Yea, which get's annoying sometimes because you will hear calls from down by the southern end of the Thruway when all I care about is around albany, lol, even 88 I don't really care about.

You need to run a different PL in that case. "New York" and "Syracuse" run 97.4Hz and "Albany" and "Buffalo" run 123.0Hz. I recall many (15+) years ago when I commuted on the TZ I could sometimes hear "Albany" on 435.425MHz in the middle of the bridge. That is when "New York" wasn't on the air wiping them out. I was using a Yaesu FT-530 to monitor (when I was not talking on 2M) and could effectively block "Albany" by using PL decode.

 

[c0untyb0y]

at the 7:30 AM roll call, the Zone 3 dispatcher advised all mobile radio units that the Thruway was now "narrowbanded" and to switch from their "w" program to "n" program on the radios. I assume that these were personalities that were pre-installed in the radios.

so there you have it. the Thruway has gone to narrow band.

 

[russthebus813]

narrowband

They are testing the narrowband programming all week, and should have the switchover completed by the weekend. The repeaters and radios were already programmed, it was just a matter of final on-air testing and getting everyone switched over. The frequencies remain the same, just a change in bandwidth/deviation.

Also, just for the benefit of those who read this thread and don't realize how the Thruway operates...it's not "SP Thruway" you're listening to, it's the entire NYS Thruway Authority on 453.425 and 453.525 (simulcast), which includes NYSP Troop T.

You are correct it is the NYS Thruway, I work at dispatch. But it is both thruway authority and the NYS Police Troop T, which operates exclusively on the NYS THRUWAY. Which has changed over to narrowband freqencies already.