The state of Tennessee Advanced Communications Network (TACN)

[ka4bni]

A new TACN site is live from the Giles/Marshall co state line as of the last few days. I'd submit to the database but how do I find out the site name?

All of our VHF sites will now have co-located 7 or 800 mhz. racks installed in them as well.

 

[surfacemount]

All of our VHF sites will now have co-located 7 or 800 mhz. racks installed in them as well.

Sounds like a lot of work on top of the other projects. You guys have a timeline to completion?

 

[ka4bni]

Sounds like a lot of work on top of the other projects. You guys have a timeline to completion?

All of the VHF sites now have the 7 or 800 co-located GTR racks active except Crestview. It will come later. We've just begun a multi year project that will add almost 200 new sites across the state to migrate to a single band system plus add much more portable coverage across the state.

 

[INDY72]

Going full 7/800?

 

[jblackst]

All of the VHF sites now have the 7 or 800 co-located GTR racks active except Crestview. It will come later. We've just begun a multi year project that will add almost 200 new sites across the state to migrate to a single band system plus add much more portable coverage across the state.

Care to help identify 002-071 and 02-072? I'm seeing them as peer sites in E TN, but can't seem to get their CCs to hit on my scanning setup?

 

[cbeb12]

All of the VHF sites now have the 7 or 800 co-located GTR racks active except Crestview. It will come later. We've just begun a multi year project that will add almost 200 new sites across the state to migrate to a single band system plus add much more portable coverage across the state.

What was the initial reason for using VHF instead of 700/800 out of interest?

 

[buddrousa]

Range, TDOT had VHF in areas, was planning on TN Dept of Forestry, just to name a few. Also you will get limited answers KA4BNI.

 

[INDY72]

VHF had better coverage in some areas as well as other issues. But now they are going to make it simple by only needing one band setup in all radios for the TACN. Since most agencies are going to NEXT "N" series Motorola radios, they can do the codeplugs more efficiently.

 

[surfacemount]

What was the initial reason for using VHF instead of 700/800 out of interest?

There's a couple of reasons.
You have to remember, TACN didn't just flat out replace the patchwork quilt of legacy systems. It sort of supplanted it over time. (Still going, in fact). 800 is not the best choice for all terrains, and some places were not happy with the performance in testing. I suspect because you can do things in other bands with fewer towers may have also been a driver.

 

[surfacemount]

Also you will get limited answers KA4BNI.

I'm surprised they allow him to interact here at all.

 

[buddrousa]

Very limited

 

[INDY72]

Very limited

NDA in this biz is no joke!

 

[jblackst]

Several new sites hit the RRDB entry today, including 700/800 versions of several VHF sites. Strong work!

 

[xsidewinderx]

Can anyone help me identify some talkgroups I'm picking up on the system? I'm put this tower into my scanner and now there's a few tgid I can't seem to find info on. Tennessee Advanced Communications Network (TACN) Site: Whitehouse
Tgids are 47041, 47098, 49802, 49834.

 

[aj4wp]

Can anyone help me identify some talkgroups I'm picking up on the system? I'm put this tower into my scanner and now there's a few tgid I can't seem to find info on. Tennessee Advanced Communications Network (TACN) Site: Whitehouse
Tgids are 47041, 47098, 49802, 49834.

Interesting they are not on RR. May be some THP chatter on those. Will monitor a bit here.

 

[FFPM571]

Can anyone help me identify some talkgroups I'm picking up on the system? I'm put this tower into my scanner and now there's a few tgid I can't seem to find info on. Tennessee Advanced Communications Network (TACN) Site: Whitehouse
Tgids are 47041, 47098, 49802, 49834.

any voice traffic?

 

[xsidewinderx]

any voice traffic?

4902 is very active, but I havnt had much time to set and listen. I believe 4902 is some sort of pd channel over in robertson county area from the addresses iv been hearing. I do have an external stream of the talkgroups if someone wants to listen to try to find out why they are. Just pm for the link

 

[TNDispatcher]

4902 is very active, but I havnt had much time to set and listen. I believe 4902 is some sort of pd channel over in robertson county area from the addresses iv been hearing. I do have an external stream of the talkgroups if someone wants to listen to try to find out why they are. Just pm for the link

Alot of Greer customers are slowly moving over to TACN away from the NXDN system. Most likely what your hearing if they upgraded already. Hopefully the other Greer nxdn counties move over soon as well.

 

[TNDispatcher]

Alot of Greer customers are slowly moving over to TACN away from the NXDN system. Most likely what your hearing if they upgraded already. Hopefully the other Greer nxdn counties move over soon as well.

I'll take the link too if you don't mind

 

[xsidewinderx]

I'll take the link too if you don't mind

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