Unknown networked federal P25 system in the Austin area

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Unitrunker2

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WACN 0000A SysID 00A Site 005-005
Control channels 407.075 406.775
Advertises peer site 001-001 408.625
Advertises peer site 003-003 406.775 (which conflicts with alternate control channel above)
 

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Don't assume that it's related because of the system ID. That ID of 00A is pretty common amongst Harris P25 systems as a "default" ID that sometimes does not get changed.

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407.0750 was reported as an EDAC system [never saw anyone ID IT] back in 2012 for Austin
WACN 0000A SysID 00A Site 005-005
Control channels 407.075 406.775
Advertises peer site 001-001 408.625
Advertises peer site 003-003 406.775 (which conflicts with alternate control channel above)
 

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Don't assume that it's related because of the system ID. That ID of 00A is pretty common amongst Harris P25 systems as a "default" ID that sometimes does not get changed.

- Chris
No one is assuming anything. I'm well aware of how many systems use that SysID and WACN. I'm simply hypothesizing that they might be related due to the fact that there is also a national laboratory in Houston.
 

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I would also point out that I obviously did not just look at the SysID, which would be foolish given that there are 81 identified systems in the RRDB using that SysID of 00A. However, using the combination of WACN and SysID, which is the correct way to research something like this, that huge list is whittled down to just three systems:
  • A system in Canada, so we can scratch that off the list.
  • A system for the Aerospace Data Facility East in Virginia, operating in the VHF band and which already has RFSS 1, Site 1 identified with a control channel of 172.350. That conflicts with the OP's observed adjacent site list of RFSS 1, Site 1 with a control channel of 408.625. Scratch that one off the list, also.
  • The Los Alamos National Laboratory system, having a site identified as RFSS 11, Site 11. A DOE installation operating in the federal UHF band, same as the other sites the OP has observed.
My opinion is that it's worth checking out the other DOE national laboratory locations to see if any trunked sites are discovered with a matching WACN-SysID and whose frequency usage and site numbering fit the same pattern.

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