Still testing in Monroe Co. and awaiting new tower in Waucheesi, last I heard. There is absolutely no coverage in the north east end of the county (Citco and mountain area). Dispatch has new consoles and are having issues paging out FD on the analog vhf channels. As ccfire said, sometimes pages will not come through on pagers, but will be heard on radios and scanners. Not sure if they're going to use vhf analog to still page out, but that's the last I heard. Once paged, units will switch to TACN for response. Looks like it's still going to be a couple of months before they switch over to TACN.
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Thanks for the update.
I drove out 68 from Madisonville all the way to Copper Hill/McCaysville the week before last and the coverage was terrible. For a solid 45 minutes, I was getting "Out of Range" on my G4. There were a few spots where Oswald dome would briefly connect but a portable subscriber would be useless out there with the current coverage.
I'm interested to see if adding the Waucheesi site will improve the coverage in southeastern Blount County along 129. The "Dragon" has little TACN coverage and has been a problem area for Blount County and THP. The closest site is Look Rock and its coverage appears to directed toward Maryville. In my experience as soon as you get beyond Tallassee and the first dam on 129 the radio becomes useless.
This is why I'm surprised to hear they are planning to go with 700 since VHF would probably be best suited to the area, though single-band radios are cheaper than multi-band and cost could have been a deciding factor.
I drove out 68 from Madisonville all the way to Copper Hill/McCaysville the week before last and the coverage was terrible. For a solid 45 minutes, I was getting "Out of Range" on my G4. There were a few spots where Oswald dome would briefly connect but a portable subscriber would be useless out there with the current coverage.
I'm interested to see if adding the Waucheesi site will improve the coverage in southeastern Blount County along 129. The "Dragon" has little TACN coverage and has been a problem area for Blount County and THP. The closest site is Look Rock and its coverage appears to directed toward Maryville. In my experience as soon as you get beyond Tallassee and the first dam on 129 the radio becomes useless.
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What I have heard is that is a planned change. Waucheesi is supposed to solve Coker Creek and the Dragon. I hadn't heard there was going to be a new tower; I thought it was going on a fire tower up there somewhere?
Monroe County isn't going to be on TACN proper; they will be on the TVRCS core last thing I was told
That's what I'm assuming also. The map below shows where the fire tower is.
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There's also some other commercial stuff up there which is slightly lower on the peak. I tried linking to Waucheesi on the Forrest Service Communications Site Map but it just shows every site when you load the page.
I didn't even know TVRCS was still a thing, I thought it was all TACN now.
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That's what I thought as well. I was confused when he posted that
TVRCS is officially TACN. They still have their own "governing body" but it IS TACN. It is the first Core of the TACN system. Unless they take their ball and go home and switch the SysID and all over to a stand alone system again, its TACN.
Sorry for the confusion about the new tower. It's not a new tower, it will go on the fire tower, where the current Monroe County analog repeater is at Waucheesi. I just wrote it wrong.
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I just talked to Chattanooga and TDoSHS on another radio topic, and those in their management says Monroe is on TVRCS. Not TACN. If that's what they say, then that's good enough for me. The whole thing is complicated enough as is, but I defer to the ones that are making it.
" Our statewide radio system is divided into two agencies... TVRCS .... Eastern side... TACN... remainder of the network."
No worries. It concerned me because that stretches the timeline significantly, and in my working group we don't get enough real-time data on that area. I still haven't been to the Waucheesi site, in fact.
Thanks for the clarification on that.
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Well...
I'm not sure it's clarification, but it came from an official source, lol
I'm not sure it's clarification, but it came from an official source, lol
It answered my question!
When I was with Blount County the radio guys always had to deal with Chattanooga/Hamilton County so I've known that East TN was managed by them, just didn't know TVRCS still existed as a managing body.
When I was with Blount County the radio guys always had to deal with Chattanooga/Hamilton County so I've known that East TN was managed by them, just didn't know TVRCS still existed as a managing body.
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Yup, I knew that to be the case too. You pay your radio maintenance fees to Chattanooga, and they build your templates. They apparently still call themselves TVRCS, I guess since they started all this crap they may be feeling a little shadowed by Nashville stealing their spotlight lol
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question if i may...
friend called asking why he could no longer receive oak ridge, i find out they switched to the new system.
i try to download it to my trx1 and am not getting the followeing loaded from radio referance.
8514 2142DE01-ORPD DISPOak Ridge Police Dispatch Law Dispatch
8511 213fDE01-ORFD-DISPOak Ridge Fire Dispatch Fire Dispatch
8552 2168T01-ORSD TRANSOak Ridge School District Transportation Transportation
8506 213aT01-ORED OPSOak Ridge Electric Department Utilities
do i need to wait for the system to update or something?
apparently it is a whistler issue. when i pull up my win500 the oak ridge units show up fine.?
friend called asking why he could no longer receive oak ridge, i find out they switched to the new system.
i try to download it to my trx1 and am not getting the followeing loaded from radio referance.
8514 2142DE01-ORPD DISPOak Ridge Police Dispatch Law Dispatch
8511 213fDE01-ORFD-DISPOak Ridge Fire Dispatch Fire Dispatch
8552 2168T01-ORSD TRANSOak Ridge School District Transportation Transportation
8506 213aT01-ORED OPSOak Ridge Electric Department Utilities
do i need to wait for the system to update or something?
apparently it is a whistler issue. when i pull up my win500 the oak ridge units show up fine.?
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Oak Ridge PD and FD are using secure fulltime, so no monitoring possible. Electric and the School talkgroups are clear but use TDMA.
s1mpleton
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thank you sir. they will not be happy but......
Your welcome. Unfortunately, when they moved to this system in 2019 they went encrypted citing the need for improved "Officer Safety."
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Oak Ridge dispatch switches to encrypted radio system - Oak Ridge Today
Oak Ridge dispatchers and emergency workers switched to a new radio system last week that uses encrypted communications, and access is restricted to public safety employees.
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far as i know we will be using vhf for paging and back up we are suppose to get multiband hand held radios while mobile units with the fd's are to get 700/800 mobiles while retaing their vhf mobiles aswell so i have been told for monroe county
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the tower on top of the mountain is the usfs and monroe sheriff on the ridge below is monroe county fd/ rescue/ems/schools/ flec/ twra analogThat's what I'm assuming also. The map below shows where the fire tower is.
Google maps
There's also some other commercial stuff up there which is slightly lower on the peak. I tried linking to Waucheesi on the Forrest Service Communications Site Map but it just shows every site when you load the page.
I didn't even know TVRCS was still a thing, I thought it was all TACN now.
What analog other than TVMA and the nationwide interop VHF does TWRA have? As far as I knew TWRA went pure P25 many years ago.
Before TACN TWRA had their own P25 Conventional voted repeater system.
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