Washington Co SARA

[WB0VHB]

Noticing several new SARA towers around Washington County. I don't see anything in the database yet. Anyone found any active signals?

 

[WillB]

I don't believe they are up and testing yet. I'll have to ask a member of a dept up there I know to confirm this though.

 

[timkilbride]

Didn't hear any new CC's last Sunday while in the area.

Tim

 

[WillB]

I have talked with a friend who works the ambulance up there. He states that the switch will happen sometime in November.

 

[timkilbride]

The yellow pins are the microwave towers. I would suspect the simulcast system will be built on the same towers.

Tim

 

[WillB]

I thought they had one down by Crawfordsville as well.

 

[timkilbride]

WRJY256

851.2375
851.5500
852.6000
853.7125

 

[WillB]

Today Washington Co is moving to their new dispatch center. Law enforcement will then switch to the new SARA system followed by Fire/EMS.

 

[WB0VHB]

Full-time encryption on law enforcement (at least during the times I have observed)

 

[WillB]

Looks like fire and EMS have made the switch. I'll find out tonight if I hear the test pages at 5:30

Riverside Fire Department Ready for New County Communications System

The Riverside Fire Department has been waiting its turn to begin using the enhanced emergency radio system now in place at the new Washington County Communications Center. The county began utilizing a new RACOM radio communication system

www.kciiradio.com

 

[WillB]

Heard nothing on the VHF at 5:30

 

[mbender77b]

I'm new to scanners for these updated systems. Has anyone had any luck hearing Washington County since the switch to their new system? I just got a Uniden BCD436HP scanner. I've loaded the following but I feel like I may be missing something? Will we be able to hear Law Enforcement at all or are they encrypted so we will never hear them?

05C

10 (A)

010 (A)

Washington Co Simulcast

Washington

851.2375a

851.550c

852.600a

853.7125a

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description	Tag
29201	7211	TE	92 LAW 1	Law 1	Law Dispatch
39290	997a	T	92 EMS DISPATCH	EMS Dispatch	EMS Dispatch
19281	4b51	T	92 PT 2 PT PATCH	Point to Point Patch - 155.370	Interop
19282	4b52	T	92 VLAW31 PATCH	V-LAW 31 Patch - 155.475	Interop
19283	4b53	T	92 VFIRE21 PATCH	V-FIRE 21 Patch - 154.280	Interop
19284	4b54	T	92 VMED 28 PATCH	V-MED 28 Patch - 155.340	Interop

 

[WB0VHB]

I monitored them for about 30 minutes a day or two after switching to the new system. Everything at that time was encrypted. I have not tried since.

 

[mbender77b]

I monitored them for about 30 minutes a day or two after switching to the new system. Everything at that time was encrypted. I have not tried since.

Probably a dumb question but how did you know it was encrypted at that time? Did you pick something up but it was scrambled or did you ust not pick anything up at all?

 

[WillB]

I spoke with someone who works EMS up there and states that the Fire/EMS side is not totally encrypted. They do have some channels that are though. They are using the Unication G5 pagers. I did notice on the FCC's website that there are these frequencies listed along with the ones listed above.

806.2375
806.55
807.60
808.7125

Are these for testing?

 

[Radioman96p71]

Those will be the input pairs to the above outputs. You can ignore them.

 

[WB0VHB]

Probably a dumb question but how did you know it was encrypted at that time? Did you pick something up but it was scrambled or did you ust not pick anything up at all?

All you hear is broken bits and pieces of voice. Nothing distinguishable, annoying to listen to for very long. A valid talk group and radio unit number are generally displayed however.