UCAN Details and P25 Info from Utah Emergency Communications Conference

[KD7DDC]

Yesterday I was able to watch the Utah Emergency Communications Conference virtually. There were a lot of really excellent speakers and information. The most relevant section to this group was a presentation by UCA about the Utah Trunking system and the upcoming P25 rollout. The youtube below is set to start at that section:

One of the most interesting to me was this particular slide from the presentation:



looks like we will be having a lot of fun tracking down all the new TG setups.

 

[enosjones]

It talked about price city getting radios which they are and something about the nxdn system carbon and emery has , but the mic kept cutting out..

 

[bneilson]

I thought it was interesting about how the channels are looking to be lined out. We will see what actually happens but it will be a bit different from what we have today. Not sure how PD units will like it. They are very accustomed to CH1 being Dispatch, CH2 being Service, and Channel 3 being C2C ( or a similar configuration).

The proposed map would be quite a bit different and infers a common programming across agencies. This is better for interoperability as you can grab any radio and CH5 is the same.

It will be interesting for sure.

 

[enosjones]

And the current sites that are online are currently transmitting at p25 phase 1, that answers the question about them going phase 2

 

[natedawg1604]

Awesome presentation by CAP, I wasn't aware of the National Radar Analysis team. Way cool!

 

[MotoTRK]

And the current sites that are online are currently transmitting at p25 phase 1, that answers the question about them going phase 2

just because it’s in test state as a phase 1 control channel doesn’t mean the system won’t have phase 2 on it. I am willing to bet this will be a hybrid system from the onset with a hard set Phase 2 cutover date if phase 2 doesn’t roll out of the gate.

 

[enosjones]

They will switch from phase 1 to phase 2, they will end phase 1 once they have all the radios including the flashed ones ready