The patches generally have always ran 24/7 on multiple sites per both Pro96 and DSDPlus.
They certainly had problems several years ago and don't seem to use STARS much now. Mostly 41/42 and occasionally if there is a problem. Most traffic seems to be on their old analog stuff and you also hear them on Alleghany's sheriff channel now and then sometimes asking ASO to relay stuff to VSP dispatch.
Last week I suddenly couldn't pick up several sties including 221, 223, 224 and 226. 222 was much poorer than before. The next day radio techs were out this way and suddenly they were all back and booming. I even get 231 now and 226 is better than before as are all of them for that matter.
Also noticed they did away with the 190 NAC and all sites in range have new NAC codes for each. I updated RR yesterday with new NACs, freqs and site neighbors for a number of sites.
I don't know what the problem with the CR units is other than Douthat seems to be a dead zone for radios. As I said most comms are over the old Douthat freqs.
Maybe they ought to switch to the new GWNF P25 system which is booming and has had a lot more activity recently.