Williston

[Nicole15765]

Williston ND or surrounding area company or person that works on scanners and programming.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

It would help if you told the thread what make & model scanner you're requesting assistance with. Also worth noting that law enforcement in Williston are listed in the database fully encrypted (mode "DE") and therefore cannot be monitored. Who else are you looking to monitor?

Williston Trunking System, Williston, North Dakota

Williston Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

 

[Nicole15765]

We have a couple different kinds of scanners, but we already can hear law enforcement. It’s all good, I just thought there would be somebody who does this as a side.
Thank you!

 

[egftechman]

It would help if you told the thread what make & model scanner you're requesting assistance with. Also worth noting that law enforcement in Williston are listed in the database fully encrypted (mode "DE") and therefore cannot be monitored. Who else are you looking to monitor?

Williston Trunking System, Williston, North Dakota

Williston Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

Interesting Williston isn't participating in SIRN.....Of course, IMHO, ND deciding to use 800MHz for SIRN was not the right choice for the rural expanses of ND. VHF would by much more appropriate and require significantly fewer towers (essentially the existing state radio tower locations, with maybe a few fill-ins added) and continue with vehicular repeaters for portables, as ensuring every square foot of the state for 800MHz portable coverage is spending a TON of money and most of that square footage that will never see use in a decade or more (not to have a "rocks and cows" moment here), a lot more economical to have like 25W mobiles and handhelds that remote control those (would something like DECT be an option for that, instead of the traditional vehicular repeater?)

800MHz simulcasts of the system could be done in Fargo (except they joined MN ARMER instead of ND SIRN), Grand Forks, and Bismarck for improved direct urban coverage for portables for the local PD and FD.

 

[peq387ab]

Williston ND or surrounding area company or person that works on scanners and programming.

What are you looking for with working on or programming scanners? What type of scanners? The Williston area is migrating to the new SIRN 2020 800 MHz Trunked system that the state is rolling out. Public safety and the City of Williston is already using the new trunked system with VHF still being used among county fire units with crossing into the new 800 MHz system and they are migrating. The system is encrypted for law enforcement users and if it isn't right now, they will be converting to encryption at some point down the road. Other counties in that area like McKenzie and Divide use the North Dakota State Radio System on VHF, and state radio is about a year roughly away from migrating to SIRN from what I have seen and heard. With the SIRN system being a Phase II trunked system, if you're looking for scanner to monitor this you will need to look into purchasing a scanner that is capable of Phase II. Provide us more information what you're looking for help with.

 

[egftechman]

What are you looking for with working on or programming scanners? What type of scanners? The Williston area is migrating to the new SIRN 2020 800 MHz Trunked system that the state is rolling out. Public safety and the City of Williston is already using the new trunked system with VHF still being used among county fire units with crossing into the new 800 MHz system and they are migrating. The system is encrypted for law enforcement users and if it isn't right now, they will be converting to encryption at some point down the road. Other counties in that area like McKenzie and Divide use the North Dakota State Radio System on VHF, and state radio is about a year roughly away from migrating to SIRN from what I have seen and heard. With the SIRN system being a Phase II trunked system, if you're looking for scanner to monitor this you will need to look into purchasing a scanner that is capable of Phase II. Provide us more information what you're looking for help with.

I will suggest 2-3 RTL-SDRs (one for every 2.4 MHz you want to cover) and SDRTrunk software.
I use that in Grand Forks for SIRN 2020 (all talkgroups in the clear here, no encryption - pretty much all public safety in GF County is on SIRN 2020), MN ARMER (most talkgroups are not encrypted), and VHF ND State Radio.
If you want to see my raw feeds OpenMHz (I did filter out some unencrypted, obviously undercover/tactical talkgroups, not putting those officers in danger) and OpenMHz (pretty much all unencrypted talkgroups are published)

 

[rattlerbb01]

I just arrived for the first time in Williston, I'll do what I can with my next month or so up here to update the database and fill out the SIRN for this corner of the state. Lots of missing sites that may be on the air. I've already gotten Site 1.84 on 852.3875 west of Williston, and it's the only site I can get tonight. Neighbors with 1.2 (williston metro), 1.46 and 1.48. I have a bad signal where I am staying, I should be able to be more mobile and really get some good stuff tomorrow and Monday.

 

[rattlerbb01]

1.84 is Cartwright in McKenzie County

 

[peq387ab]

I just arrived for the first time in Williston, I'll do what I can with my next month or so up here to update the database and fill out the SIRN for this corner of the state. Lots of missing sites that may be on the air. I've already gotten Site 1.84 on 852.3875 west of Williston, and it's the only site I can get tonight. Neighbors with 1.2 (williston metro), 1.46 and 1.48. I have a bad signal where I am staying, I should be able to be more mobile and really get some good stuff tomorrow and Monday.

Awesome! That part of the state definitely needs some TLC. Also Williams County and Williston needs some info on talkgroups too.

 

[rattlerbb01]

I got several towers earlier north of Williston on DSD Plus, I’ll send them in the submissions later tonight.

 

[rattlerbb01]

Network: BEE00.A6A

Bandplan #0: Base=851.00625 Offset=-45 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #1: Base=762.00625 Offset=+30 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #2: Base=851.0125 Offset=-45 Spacing=12.5 BW=12.5 Slots=2
Bandplan #3: Base=762.00625 Offset=+30 Spacing=12.5 BW=12.5 Slots=2
Bandplan #4: Base=935.0125 Offset=-39 Spacing=12.5 BW=12.5
Bandplan #5: Base=935.0125 Offset=-39 Spacing=12.5 BW=12.5 Slots=2


Site: 1.2

Channel 0-449: 853.8125 CC


Site: 1.3

Channel 0-221: 852.3875 CC


Site: 1.9

Channel 0-209: 852.3125 CC


Site: 1.11 NAC=A60 BSI=WRHZ365

Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.9
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.21
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.61

Channel 0-129: 851.8125 BSI
Channel 0-173: 852.0875 CC
Channel 0-209: 852.3125 SCC


Site: 1.21 NAC=A64 BSI=WRHY960

Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.2
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.11
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.45
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.47
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.51

Channel 0-145: 851.9125 BSI
Channel 0-189: 852.1875 SCC
Channel 0-225: 852.4125 CC



Site: 1.39 NAC=A66

Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.2
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.3
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.45
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.46
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.61

Channel 0-409: 853.5625 SCC
Channel 0-445: 853.7875 CC


Site: 1.45

Channel 0-465: 853.9125 CC


Site: 1.46

Channel 0-217: 852.3625 CC





Site: 1.48

Channel 0-205: 852.2875 CC


Site: 1.51 NAC=A62 BSI=WRHU477

Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.2
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.3
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.21
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.47
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.61

Channel 0-133: 851.8375 BSI
Channel 0-177: 852.1125 SCC
Channel 0-213: 852.3375 CC


Site: 1.61

Channel 0-217: 852.3625 CC


Site: 1.84 NAC=A63

Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.2
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.46
Neighbor: BEE00.A6A-1.48

Channel 0-185: 852.1625 SCC
Channel 0-221: 852.3875 CC

 

[rattlerbb01]

Just a little update for anyone wanting to listen to Williston, at this time PD, SO, and WFD are all on SIRN and are TDMA clear. Did not see any encrypted transmissions all day long. No activity on the VHF system owned by the city. Jail, Landfill and public works are all on VHF analog. I’ll get more updates when I come back next week.

 

[rattlerbb01]

Been very busy but finally got time to do some recording on the Ray site near my hotel in Tioga. All SO comms have been in the clear, Tioga PD is using SO primary for comms, and found 53210 to be the Williams County Fire/EMS dispatch group, and caught a good pursuit of a stolen vehicle on 53109, and the talkgroup was conveniently referred to over the air as "Pursuit"

Going to get into some VHF state radio system monitoring as well.