unknown moto type 1 800 - sysid: 7712 - 854.2125

[mtindor]

Am on the Ohio/WV border about half an hour south of Pennsylvania line @ 1200 feet - Using a BCD996T with a Radio Shack 800 mhz portable ant on the back of the scanner.

Heard a system tonight that I cannot identify and am wondering if anybody has a clue. Unitrunker reveals the following:

type: Type I 800
sysid: 7712
connect tone: 128.57

854.2125 (cc)
- no activity at all in the past hour and a half

A signal could barely be heard - Had their been better copy, I'm not sure there would have been any useful information since I could tell by listening to the control channel that there was no activity anywhere.

Mike

 

[43g70]

Here a possibilty of who it might be, I am not sure exactly were you are at.

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=fcc&cs=WPBS772

I found Nextel licensed for it, they might still have a old SMR system on possibly.

43g70

 

[mtindor]

Here a possibilty of who it might be, I am not sure exactly were you are at.

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=fcc&cs=WPBS772

I found Nextel licensed for it, they might still have a old SMR system on possibly.

43g70

Thanks. I did look up licensing and saw what you saw - Franklin County would be too far away (Im in East Ohio on the WV border). I also saw one of the Nextel Holdings licenses for Tuscarawas County area. That is a possibility, although it is a far stretch. I have heard Tuscarawas 800 systems faintly when DXing from here before though, so it is possible. I don't know who it would be though - because I don't think Nextel themselves would be using that Freq.

For instance, just recently I found a frequency tied to our local 911 system here in the county - and the only license around is Nextel Holdings. And our system is scheduled for rebanding. So I'm thinking that when you see licenses with 'Nextel Holdings' and you are looking up info for a system in your area and Nextel Holdings has a license in that area, it could be that some other local 800 mhz system in your area is due for rebanding and is being assigned one of those frequencies.

Of course then the 7712 systemid comes in to play - if it were a current system that is in the process of being rebanded and as such as been assigned one of those Nextel Holdings frequencies, it still should be broadcasting itself as its own system ID and not something new. In fact, on a current system being rebanded I would venture to say that the frequency in question shouldnt/wouldnt be an active control channel unless that system has totally completed their rebanding. And one would assume that if this were the case, somebody on here would already know about it.

I wonder how many 800 mhz systems are out there that aren't documented yet here on RR. I always assume it has just about every system in the US that isn't fed/mil covered - but that may be an ambitious assumption.

I always think of my area having all of its 800 mhz activity started in about the past 5 or 6 years... and I forget that in many places they've been using 800 mhz systems for a long time.

So I don't know if this is a new/incomplete system, a system being rebanded, or an ancient system with no more activity and no more channels assigned but for a lone control channel broadcasting into the great abyss

mike