moonies
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Whats going on with the new trunked system for fire/ems? Has anyone received any talkgroup info? Also, do you need to program north/south sites into different banks? Any help would be appreciated. Listening in L.i.!!
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Alarms50
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No TG's as of yet, only two towers of nine up and running. As I find any TG's they will be submitted.
moonies
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Westchester Ems/fire System
Thanks for the info, here in L.I., its hard to listen to westchester except for 155.625 so hopefully I will be able to hear the southern site near port chester.
Thanks for the info, here in L.I., its hard to listen to westchester except for 155.625 so hopefully I will be able to hear the southern site near port chester.
moonies
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Does any one know if programming needs to be in separate banks??
K2KOH
Silent Key
I would think you can program the control channels from all the towers in one bank, and as you move around the county, the scanner will lock on the control channel for the area you're in
Alarms50
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I'm new to trunktracking also, but from what I've read control channel tracking is only for the 800 band. For UHF you need to program the Base, Offset and Spacing found in the database for the system.
moonies
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Thank you for the update on westchester. Having only 2 trunking systems to monitor in long island,it would be nice to hear something new!! also only very limited digital communication. owner of a pro-96 but not getting much more out of it than a coventional scanner!!!
Alarms50
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Driving through Yonkers today confirmed that the Dunwoodie GC tower is transmitting with a CC of 476.2375Mhz. Signal is not that strong East of the Bronx River Parkway.
moonies
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Guess that new westchester ems/fire site wont be heard in long island! most trunked systems any further than immediate area cant be tracked properly! So much for all this new technology!!!
Alarms50
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Confirmed today that the North Salem(Mountain Lakes) tower is operating with a CC of 470.575Mhz.
Al42
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Try 453.45 or 453.9 - they're a lot closer to you and you probably can't hear them either.moonies said:
michaelsbus
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not much to listen to...?
You only like trunk systems? Well, there's plenty of them on LI. Lots of business on trunk systems.
BTW, before I moved to Florida, I had my Pro95 packed with Suffolk County TRS, Nassau County TRS, Babylon Town TRS, at least 150 conventional freqs covering FDs of all Nassau and 3/4 of Suffolk. NYC Fire and EMS VHF, UHF, and trunk. Then there's the trunk system and conventional freqs used by the bus company I once worked for. More activity than I cared to have one scanner for.
Perhaps you could try Connecticut comms. Or New Jersey? I recall plenty of times wishing I had PL decode when Melville FD's repeater freq I would hear police in NJ - pretty clear, too. (Who says UHF is immune to skip?)
moonies said:
You only like trunk systems? Well, there's plenty of them on LI. Lots of business on trunk systems.
BTW, before I moved to Florida, I had my Pro95 packed with Suffolk County TRS, Nassau County TRS, Babylon Town TRS, at least 150 conventional freqs covering FDs of all Nassau and 3/4 of Suffolk. NYC Fire and EMS VHF, UHF, and trunk. Then there's the trunk system and conventional freqs used by the bus company I once worked for. More activity than I cared to have one scanner for.
Perhaps you could try Connecticut comms. Or New Jersey? I recall plenty of times wishing I had PL decode when Melville FD's repeater freq I would hear police in NJ - pretty clear, too. (Who says UHF is immune to skip?)
1STR465
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Fyi -- The Trunked System Westchester Has Had For 3+ Years In The Making Has Been Scrapped.
"Fyi -- The Trunked System Westchester Has Had For 3+ Years In The Making Has Been Scrapped."
SAYS WHO?
the control channels and sites have just been starting to get turned on and optomized?
where di you get this information?
SAYS WHO?
the control channels and sites have just been starting to get turned on and optomized?
where di you get this information?
1STR465
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From A Westchester County Ff... They Are Having Too Many Problems With The New Radios/system...
Alarms50
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Where did this "Westchester County Ff" get his info? I know way too many Westchester FF's who subscribe to the saying "The Volunteer Fire Service - 225 years of tradition unimpeded by progress". If it were up to them we would still be figthing fires with booster lines and riding on the back step. I've been around long enough that when I started we were riding the backstep.
I have heard of problems with the system, but to scrap a system four months after the first CC was turned on and then add three more, seems like they are just trying to work out the bugs before they put the whole thing online. FYI, there are still five more sites that are FCC licensed that as of today are not running.
Posts have more authority when supporting information is provided, rather than "I just heard it somewhere".
I have heard of problems with the system, but to scrap a system four months after the first CC was turned on and then add three more, seems like they are just trying to work out the bugs before they put the whole thing online. FYI, there are still five more sites that are FCC licensed that as of today are not running.
Posts have more authority when supporting information is provided, rather than "I just heard it somewhere".
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before any units are to use a system it must be optomized. after the optomization there is a "acceptance test" period. user's do not use a system till after it has been accepted. due to the weird weather we have been having i imagine that the construction schedule has been pushed back a few weeks. trunking systems do not just pop up one day. they have to be installed. towers must be built or modified, equipment has to be staged. T1's microwave must be on and running. a lot goes into it before it starts to be used.
westchester county has a lot invested in this radio system i know there not just gonna throw it away.
westchester county has a lot invested in this radio system i know there not just gonna throw it away.
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DaveNF2G
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It should be noted that Westchester County's 470 MHz FCC licenses expired in February, 2006.
Alarms50
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The two FCC licenses for the trunked system, WQDW263 (issued 11/14/05)-North Zone & WQBR539 (issued 11/28/05)-South Zone, both expire in 2015.
Also, WQBR539 has a pending amendment for the Port Chester site to be located at the 22 Summit Avenue Water Tank with power ouput of 25 watts for all 6 freq's.
Also, WQBR539 has a pending amendment for the Port Chester site to be located at the 22 Summit Avenue Water Tank with power ouput of 25 watts for all 6 freq's.
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DaveNF2G
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Oops. I just went back into the message where I saw the expiration notice and re-read it.
Rockland County's 470 MHz license has expired, not Westchester's. Sorry.
Rockland County's 470 MHz license has expired, not Westchester's. Sorry.
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