UTAC 44 and UTAC 47 activity in Middlesex County

[W2PSK]

I've been hearing something on UTAC 44 and 47 in the Middlesex County area recently. It's just someone keying up. It sounds like they are hitting a repeater. There's never any voices or any noises like data, just the sound of someone keying up on both channels. Has anyone else heard this?

 

[rr60]

Yes, been going on for years. May not be “someone”.

 

[FT752]

UTAC44 has had a frequent kerchunk for years as rr60 stated. I figured it was some sort of "keep alive" timer considering it only occurred when the repeater was activated and was clean audio not from a usual field unit or a jammer with a CCR. UTAC47 saw this activity during the West Milford incident as there was patching taking place, resulting in some erroneous PTT along with extended hang times following the completion of a native UTAC47 or patched NJICS transmission.

 

[rr60]

On inception they were to be kept knocked down and only up via appropriate Comm Center upon request. Do not think that ever happed. This network appears to be treated as a step child with nobody home.

These things can happen with less resources I suppose.

Heck ICS 28 Martinsville is going on 6 months with no table,

 

[FT752]

You also have to consider that some counties have these repeaters as interops, no different than SPEN and their respective local resources. UTAC46 I believe is one that Union County consistently monitors on the consoles, and has at the ready when units from Somerset for example come in and do not have NJICS access. Therefore, knockdown is less than ideal. Some agencies treat SPEN as a stepchild- but you don't complain about them forgetting about it and leaving home.

There you go, Martinsville is a nobody home. Subscriber radios like New Brunswick Simulcast better despite being near Martinsville ASR. Things do not change.

 

[X9009X]

The County of Middlesex has NO UTAC repeaters in there inventory at any of there sites.

 

[rr60]

The State has them at various locations adjacent to Middlesex County.
The last time I looked they were set up as simulcast conventional over
wide areas using multiple sites.

The signal easily propagates into Middlesex County.

 

[FT752]

Is ITAC still a thing, the NJ 800 interops?

 

[GTR8000]

Is ITAC still a thing, the NJ 800 interops?

ICALL/ITAC are long gone, having been replaced years ago by 8CALL/8TAC post-rebanding.

 

[wtp]

North Bergen ?

OK i have been away for quite some time !

 

[rpurchases10]

@wtp -- "Knock it Off"!

You are OLD! But, for me to have recognized the reference, I must be ancient.

LOL