Should be at least 3, maybe 4 TG's for transit. Main, Maintenance, Handicap Services AKA handi lift van type, and supervisory.
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zachgallop
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Pigeon Forge Transit Department only consists of Trolleys, I believe. Should be the only user. The radio upgrade was apart of the Improve Act Grant.
City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee They do have paratransit van service.
zachgallop
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My bad. Knew they had that service for the regular trolleys but not separate Vans. The document I read said for it is for the Trolley Department and the Mass Transit Director presented the proposal. They could very well be including them as well.
Picking up TG 10006. Maryville FD calling dispatch clearing a scene, terminating command. No location given.
And 15225. Completely encrypted.
And 15225. Completely encrypted.
Big front page article in today's Knoxville News Sentinel about how bad the radio coverage is inside schools due to "weaker" radio signals. The problem arose when there wasd a reported shooting at a high school. It's on their website, but I can't get access to the site to post a link. I'm out of free articles. Just thought I'd share.
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Knox County Schools has been aware of the issues for awhile. Including that particular schools. They have had other incidents at that school including with a student setting things in the lobby on fire, both county dispatch and school dispatch could not copy their traffic. They just never fixed it, they pretty much ignored the issues at all the school. There is a quite a few schools where the radios do not work at all. I would estimate at least 5 with major issues. They are all spread out. There is some in west Knox close together. They conducted radio tests in schools before the switchover to the new system and with the old. They have been aware of this a long time, they are just now choosing to address it. WVLT has an article on it as well: False alarm leads to police radio review in Knox County Schools . There is also an issue at a certain school within Loudon County really close to one of the TACN repeaters.
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surfacemount
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Are they not migrating to TACN also? I thought I saw a knox schools tg on a radio the other day...
zachgallop
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Knox County Schools Security Division is the only Knox county school user of TACN, they changed over before KPD and KCSO. They are the primary law enforcement and security for the schools. They are deputized by KCSO. Have their own emergency response vehicles and dispatch. Knox 911 monitors their talkgroup and talks on it almost daily. They do have additional reserved channels. Each school has a emergency radio on channel 7 “KX-ED ER TRAFF”. Transportation will remain Mototurbo 800 MHz and good thing because they have a heavy amount of radio traffic. In-Schools comms are primarily uhf, they were trying to move the remaining vhf to uhf. Transportation Dispatch has a radio to talk to school security (unit 104 is the primary one). Some additional people have radios like the chief operating officer of schools (unit 101) to monitor school division
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surfacemount
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How many TACN 'repeaters' are there in Loudon now?
zachgallop
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Two, Centerville and Lenoir city. Their radios also work primarily off Black road, Oral, Greentop, and Madisonville. Oral is just barley outside the county. The TACN repeater is about 1.7 miles away from the school.
ButchGone
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I see that for THP District 2, the database shows Dispatch 1 as "T", for TDMA Phase 2. They are actually using FDMA (Phase 1 P25) so folks without Phase 2 scanners can still receive them.
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Yes but that is changing along with turning on the BIG E.
All THP is going to full time TDMA use. The encryption, that we are not fully sure of now since the PIO that was contacted said they are not adding any more encryption. There are still several others involved with TACN that still are saying yes, all THP will be strapped encryption once the codeplugs are all done for TDMA. The TDMA is not just for THP, TACN is now moving forwards with converting all users to TDMA as soon as they are able. NO new users will be allowed FDMA except on mutual aid. And one more time: TACN operates in DUAL DYNAMIC MODE which allows both FDMA and TDMA use. Over the next couple of years though, you will see less and less FDMA use.
zachgallop
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In my opinion, the way he worded the email it could go either way. He said, "At the current time we do not have a schedule for THP to encrypt their Dispatch Communications." His use of "schedule" rather than "plans", has kept me thinking that he may have been saying in a way they do not have a schedule for it, but they may very well be planning to do so or at least discussing it. He did indicate it is an option and could be implemented at a future date.
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I submitted Site 69 Watertown (Wilson). Picked it up this weekend, got the CC/AC, NAC, Neighbor List and submitted it.
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Today I was going through FCC Grants for Bradley County, TN. This popped up as the newest, WQLE430 (Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security) FCC Callsign Details I'm guessing that it popped up because of a license renewal since Bradley County has been on this site for a while now.
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Thanks for confirming
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