SVRCS Phase 1

[Stealthguy05]

City of Sunnyvale posted a council report on the new system: SVRCS Project 25
Phase 2 Standard TDMA 700 MHz Tri-Site Trunk Radio Simulcast Communications System
http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Portals/0/Sunnyvale/CouncilReports/2012/12-232.pdf
An end to monitoring SNY, SNC and XSC perhaps...

 

[mmckenna]

Mobile radios (dual band) with O5 head will be $5325.00 each.
Motorcycle radios (dual band) will be $5395 each.
Mobile radios (dual band) with O3 head will be $5674.94 each
Portables (dual band) will be $5497 each.
Public Works portables (single band only) will be $3088 each.
Public safety portables (single band) will be $3173 each

As nice as this system will likely be, that is WAY to much for a radio. Interoperability doesn't need to be this expensive.

I wonder how the Public Works employee union is going to like all their workers walking around with GPS enabled radios. I'll be they haven't realized this yet.

 

[jland138]

From the City Manager's Blog (City Manager's Blog: January 28, 2013 - City Manager's Updates)

Radio Replacement Project

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety and other emergency services agencies in the County of Santa Clara have been working toward regional emergency communications interoperability for several years and replacing emergency and non-emergency radios using a new P25 standard system is the first step in achieving that goal. The Radio Replacement Project (RTC 12-232) is well underway and has completed several major milestones. The Motorola infrastructure, including the master site controller for Sunnyvale and Santa Clara (Stage 1 of the countywide system) is being built in Schaumburg, Illinois and is scheduled for delivery in April. In preparation for system testing, new equipment will be installed over the next few months in the Corporation Yard and DPS telecommunications room and new antennas will be placed on the DPS monopole located on All America Way. System rollout is scheduled Q4 2013.

 

[johndrake]

I wonder if it will work?

It will be interesting to see if this system ever works, or if it becomes just another one of the systems that turns out to be a multimillion dollar disaster (e.g. San Mateo county TRS). I'm betting on the latter.

 

[Stealthguy05]

From the City Blog:
DPS continues to progress towards the radio system replacement that was approved last year. The selected vendor, Motorola, has been conducting significant work on installation of the infrastructure at DPS headquarters. It is anticipated that in early SEPTEMBER testing will begin. The final system acceptance is scheduled for December 2013.

The new radio system is part of the larger Silicon Valley Regional Interoperability Authority system design. This interoperable radio system is designed to eventually include all of the county agencies in both the police and fire disciplines. The City of Sunnyvale, City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara County and the City of San Jose have partnered on this initial deployment called Stage 1 and 2. When these stages are complete the City of Sunnyvale and the City of Santa Clara will completely transition from the legacy systems to the new.

With this new system every agency in the county will have a seamless ability to communicate via the radios we carry every day. Currently there several disparate systems in the county in which some of them cannot communicate with others. With this new system there will be one very robust infrastructure utilizing the latest in technology. In preparation for this very significant change to DPS a large group of 22 people has been established to address all of the implementation considerations. The current technology we are using has been very reliable but has reached beyond its useful life and has begun to have periods of difficulty reiterating the need for the new system.

So it looks like San Jose and County Communications are in on it too now.

 

[jland138]

SVRCS Stage 2

This report from the San Jose Public Safety, Finance and Strategic Services Committee in July has an update on stage 2 of SVRCS: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/documentcenter/view/19877

Stage 2 will include three additional sites in Mountain View, Campbell and at County Communications.

 

[jland138]

Here's a link for the first stage of SVRCS in the FCC application database: ULS Application - Trunked Public Safety 700 MHz - 0005888151 - SANTA CLARA, COUNTY OF (SVRIA)

System base frequencies appear to be: 770.08125, 771.40625, 771.85625, 772.15625, 772.30625 and 772.45625

 

[Stealthguy05]

I've added those frequencies to a conventional scan list and will report when it goes live for those that have a 800

 

[espsvvfd]

Does anyone have the WACN for SVRCS?

 

[jland138]

Pro96Com shows the WACN as BEE00 for the west simulcast cell. The other cells aren't up, but the central cell may get started as part of Stage 4 with sites at San Jose City Hall and the County Communications Center on Carol Drive.

 

[phirephoto]

Anyone have the band plan details? I'm trying to get Unitrunker working, but having no luck receiving the control channel with a rooftop antenna, so I think I have a bad / defective SDR

Thanks.

 

[kma371]

Please continue discussion in the appropriate SVRCS question thread or SVRCS update thread