Looks like they updated it, on the website it says now Aug 19 for Kane CountyJust reading report that change-over will start on Aug 1, starting with Kane County. Progress of the change-over will be posted on the UCA web site.
That's a great idea! I hadn't even thought to bring my laptop with the RTL-SDR dongle/antenna. I can definitely give it a whirl when I do make it over to Kane and Garfield Counties and test a designated site's frequencies. I will definitely be able to more easily test Iron's frequencies in various portions of the county once things go live. I have SDR Trunk on my Macbook, so it could be a good experiment to see if I can catch some unknown channels via the waterfall if I'm not catching traffic on the designated frequencies listed. I hope the 1 dongle will be sufficient to cover the range though. Maybe I'll pony up for another dongle if I find some limitations with just the single dongle. I'll see what I can do over the coming weeks!That would be great we do need help down that way. Do u also have a laptop with sdr dongles or rtl2832's and either sdrtrunk or dsdplus? even unitrunker would help at this point. the control channels are decoding at phase 1 digital even though the traffic may be phase 2. We need confirmation on certain sites as well as the frequencies and Neighbors/peers or adjacent sites to add to the database. Most sites are accounted for but we do need info for some especially down south there. If you use dsdplus or something let us know. I can get u a list of the sites we need still..
Good point. I do have a Spectrumforce wideband antenna that'll probably be worth trying.if you have the adapters for the connection for the sdr dongles and a mobile antenna u will pick up further. than with the little antennas that the dongles come with. just a suggestion
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The radio Techs have already experienced dead spots where the legacy 800 covers but the 700 p25 is a dead zone. the signal from these sites are much weaker than the 800 Motorola legacy system. They may have to add more sites to cover where this new system won't cover. The sites are still in testing mode...Push backs always happen. Maybe a resource issue with boots on the ground or technicial issues as always. Always have to stay within budget with money and head count. Lets just hope everything goes well and is positive. I wish they would just stayed with Moto since they already had a Moto backbone already implemented. But it all comes down to money and bids.
I bet they will end up going way over budget big time and wish they went back to Motorola. This is what happened with Las Vegas PD maybe 10 years ago or less. They went with Harris and it was a mess and had to budget more money and have Moto come in and rebuild the whole system correctly. Dead spots and so on. Tons of radio transmission issues and I heard it was a mess. Hopefully things go good with this whole state of Utah.
Sounds like they should of taken the high bidder for Motorola and things would of been better. But who really knows because of the vast area of that state. I guess this is why they had or still are using their VHF repeaters in this vast area for distance to patch into the UCA older Motorola system which of the majority of that system was still in Analog 800 Trunking mode. Now you push 700 mhz in P25 Phase II TDMA trunking mode and this might bring up other areas that would bring dead spots. Well at least they are going back to the drawing board and doing cutover at a later date and at this point who knows how long this will take.The radio Techs have already experienced dead spots where the legacy 800 covers but the 700 p25 is a dead zone. the signal from these sites are much weaker than the 800 Motorola legacy system. They may have to add more sites to cover where this new system won't cover. The sites are still in testing mode...
so the new unity trunker 2 will decode xtdm p25 2 or not i am using sdr airspy min r 2 device works great not having any troubleI don't know if anyone has replied to this, but SDRtrunk doesn't decode motorola type 2 systems, I use Unitrunker v2 and it works great.