Texas DPS Still Using The P25 Vhf High Band, Or Are They Using TxWARN?

[WB5UOM]

Ive seen 2 or 3 DPS Tahoes running around with the vhf whips missing...mount is there...just no whip..so I guess that says something as well...

 

[Russell]

Halfway to anywhere ... you're still in Texas.

 

[WB5UOM]

Yes--- and you are likely gonna buy gas...likely gonna eat somewhere..
....although....many moons ago...
I did drive my pickup non stop..(not one stop for anything period) Dallas to El Paso...hard right to Alamagordo NM another hard right up the mountain to Cloudcroft NM
And the same on the return trip
Really hard on kidneys and back
....but driving safely...no donations or unscheduled side of the road meetings with DPS

 

[tsalmrsystemtech]

You never realize how big Texas is until you drive from Amarillo to San Antonio and it takes 8 hrs. This is when you go WOW. The state is so amazing big that there are some big major trunked systems and tons of them in all different counties and multiple big trunking systems serving tons of counties and cities.

 

[garys]

People who visit Texas have no concept of how big it is. People from Europe who visit really have no concept of how big it is.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Yes, TxDPS codeplugs can be huge.

At the moment they are limited to 3000 channels as that's the limitation with Motorola APX radios. Now if Motorola gets their auxiliary codeplugs setup then they can potentially push 30,000 channels across the 10 codeplugs on one radio. That being said…EFJ has a licensable limit for 4096 channels and BK allows for 5000 in the new BKR9000.

 

[red8]

The old analog Smartnet like we had in Baton Rouge,La. had a capacity of 5,000 talkgroups.and that was on the local system that was comprised of East & West Baton Rouge, State Police ,statewide and INTEROP that didn't INTEROP . THEN, in 2005 we went to a true INTEROP 700 MHZ, P25 system. With all 64 Parishes on line .

 

[Echo4Thirty]

At the moment they are limited to 3000 channels as that's the limitation with Motorola APX radios. Now if Motorola gets their auxiliary codeplugs setup then they can potentially push 30,000 channels across the 10 codeplugs on one radio. That being said…EFJ has a licensable limit for 4096 channels and BK allows for 5000 in the new BKR9000.

I would bet you a dollar that this will not be for the legacy APX line regardless of if the radio can handle it or not. I mean we do have the unused MicroSD card slot in the portables, but coming from that side of the industry, this is the perfect time to push DPS into buying all new radios. The only current caveot is there is not a NEXT mobile yet.

I would love to be wrong on this and have the same support for "mission plans" like I have had in my Harris radios forever. I just dont see where they are going to get the internal memory space in the legacy APX line.

 

[garys]

In Austin and Williamson counties I hear the VHF frequencies from time to time. 155.467500 with NAC 118 and 159.210000 with NAC 137. Otherwise I hear them on TG 3522 and 3525 on GATTRS.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

I would bet you a dollar that this will not be for the legacy APX line regardless of if the radio can handle it or not. I mean we do have the unused MicroSD card slot in the portables, but coming from that side of the industry, this is the perfect time to push DPS into buying all new radios. The only current caveot is there is not a NEXT mobile yet.

I would love to be wrong on this and have the same support for "mission plans" like I have had in my Harris radios forever. I just dont see where they are going to get the internal memory space in the legacy APX line.

My understanding is that the radios already have adequate storage (at least the current CPU on the BN/CN chassis).