Tx Dps Apco-25?

[Russell]

I'm hearing two different things on this. I understand that narrowbanding is mandated by the FCC. However, is digital also mandated? Some are using narrowbanding and digital synonymously and they clearly are not the same thing.

Also, you would think that if digital was mandated they would also mandate the digital format, otherwise why mandate digital? That would lead to non-interoperability. Ahhhh, progress. :lol:

Russell

 

[WX5JCH]

Does anyone have a .mem file for DPS P-25 in Texas? I'm using a 996T and I should be hearing a lot more than I am. I'm 33 miles from the border but I very rarely hear DPS.

Thanks

Jim
KE5AZY

 

[mfn002]

Does anyone have a .mem file for DPS P-25 in Texas? I'm using a 996T and I should be hearing a lot more than I am. I'm 33 miles from the border but I very rarely hear DPS.

P25 does not travel long distances very well. This is especially true if there is no 159.210/159.2375 repeater.

 

[VintageJon]

Jesus, Mary, and Joe! I'm apparently stone ignorant and it's just too digital for me.
I've just stuck 159.21 in the DPS bank and told it to look for MOT, on a Pro 96.
Will this work?

Thanks,
Jon

 

[rattlerbb01]

No. Just press MAN (manual) to stop the scanner on 159.210, then press MODE to change it from MO to FM, if you want to listen to 159.210 in digital mode. If you want to listen to just an analog repeater, press MODE until the top right reads CT, then, press FUNC, MODE and "peck" in the tone (such as 136.5 for the Temple repeater.) and press enter. Hit scan and you are in business.

 

[SCPD]

When Is Dallas (1-A) and Waco (6) going fully APCO-25?

 

[rattlerbb01]

I haven't heard anything on them. However, I have been told by someone in Tyler that the Texarkana Primary, 155.445 B1 and the Marshal Repeater, 159.2175 17B are now transmitting full digital. I can't confirm that myself anytime soon, but maybe someone from that area can. Also, Sulphur Springs started to roll it out a few weeks ago only to have some setbacks. I don't know if all units and cars have received the proper equipment, and it sounded technical also. So after they go, it would only be logical that the other region one stations, Sherman and Dallas, would follow. Dallas has many more units due to the population and amount of freeways, so they should be more of a task to overcome. As far as region 6 is concerned, only Kerrville has gone, and that is probably only because they are sandwiched between San Antonio and Ozona.

 

[Russell]

I can confirm that Tyler and Sulphur Springs are P25. They are both monitorable from my current location (Allen, TX). Another person reported all digital from Texarkana to Tyler on a recent road trip.

Russell

 

[rattlerbb01]

Looks like time to update the database. Maybe someone could submit that to VictorXRay, or whoever is looking after the DPS database. It will follow the statewide maps I submitted a few months ago, since those were from DPS Radio techs.

 

[VictorXray]

Database updated for Sulphur Springs and Texarkana. Can any East Texans confirm if Marshall has switched to RPT 17B yet?

 

[WX5JCH]

Well, I hear the repeater West of Amarillo, near Vega loud and clear in Digital. Nothing else much in TX but the Childress and WF's systems. I think digital travels quite a bit further than analog.

Jim

 

[redhelmet13]

The Denton repeater is now P25 and booming into Benbrook!

 

[mam1081]

The Denton repeater is now P25 and booming into Benbrook!

Yup - came on this evening (5/23/07). You could hear R-104 doing range testing, and Sherman asking Denton County units for radio checks.

It's Repeater 12B now (159.2175, NAC $111)

 

[w8jjr]

A. The FCC. Narrowbanding is mandated by 2013; at the moment, the only equipment and methodology I'm aware of that vendors are using to achieve that is digital.
B. I did overstate some. Essentially the only new equipment being manufactured by the higher end, public safety type folks for public safety applications is P25 capable (sometimes requiring a software/flash upgrade.) There are exceptions, but this is generally quite true.

Just like the TV's. Its now a digital world.

 

[Russell]

I just heard Sherman on 155.445 in P25, ID'd w/call sign KCY568.

I also have not heard DPS on the tollway on 155.445 for several months, all their ops have returned to 157.35 (still analog).

Russell

 

[pitcockm]

VictorXray....Marshall is now on 17B.

 

[VictorXray]

Thanks pitcockm.

 

[nd5y]

I was just told that Dallas switched over to digital at 6 pm yesterday (6/14/07).

 

[VictorXray]

I can confirm this. KKA603 now on BASE B2.

 

[mam1081]

Decatur repeater changed today - was on 156.210 NAC $293 - now 159.0975 NAC $162.