They are there...it's a certainty that there was some sort of traffic in 3 hours, so I'm not sure what you would have been doing to not hear anything for that long.
When did this happen? They have problems with WISCOM once in a while, or updates are going on for the Greenfield site. They go to their Milwaukee County Back Up Talkgroup for a while when this happens.16112 PD - 16144 FD
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Thursday when I just had scanner on for a few minutes, I heard Greenfield Dispatch doing roll call, to see if everyone could copy.
nikegolf384
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I've been monitoring WISCOM from Fox Valley area. The Chilton site is active for me and can pick up normally County Scan channels for Brown, Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago. Other traffic consists of City of Fond Du Lac sporadically(tough based on my distance). Today I picked up a short simulcast of WSP District 3 Dispatch on their WISCOM channels. It was for a traffic stop on 41 but only picked it up for about 20 seconds. First traffic I've heard for District 3 on WISCOM.
box23
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I noticed ALSCAN is back, and is now also active on Red Cliff.
There are several WISCOM roll calls and a test drill scheduled this week:
Tuesday April 5, 2016
0900 Southwest Region Roll Call on RCALL11SW
1300 DHS Test Drill (Precursor for BAT16 Exercise) on STAC8
Wednesday April 6, 2016
0830 Southeast Region Roll Call on RCALL21SE
Thursday April 7, 2016
0900 Monthly WEM Roll Call on STAC8
Immediately after WEM Roll Call - West Central Region Roll Call on RCALL51WC
Tuesday April 5, 2016
0900 Southwest Region Roll Call on RCALL11SW
1300 DHS Test Drill (Precursor for BAT16 Exercise) on STAC8
Wednesday April 6, 2016
0830 Southeast Region Roll Call on RCALL21SE
Thursday April 7, 2016
0900 Monthly WEM Roll Call on STAC8
Immediately after WEM Roll Call - West Central Region Roll Call on RCALL51WC
Sustainability study finally awarded
Was wondering what was going on with this, took a look and the contract was only awarded on April 8th.
Not really speedy. Of course it's likely impossible to tell if this was a delay in getting firms lined up, negotiation over price, or perhaps just a matter of the state freeing up the funds. Of course, it could be something else entirely, who knows.
Only 4 firms responded to the RFP:
• Tusa Consulting (winner winner, evening poultry meal)
• DVA Consulting
• Mission Critical Partners
• Televate
2 of the 4 have extremely low internet presence, which doesn't really engender confidence.
Tusa has done some work with Washington County, so they at least have some exposure to the area.
LR Kimball did not submit a bid - they did engineering work for the initial rollout and you'll see their name on the coverage maps from the state. Interesting that they didn't want to continue participating.
Also of note, some of the state folks that were highly aligned and involved with WISCOM are no longer employed by the state. Perhaps new blood will be a factor in getting the system off the canvas, or it could be a death blow.
In any case, it appears that any report from the consultants will be be forthcoming later than originally planned. In reading the regional minutes, there is some amount of anticipation (waiting) for this report, so hurry up and wait seems to be the order of the day.
Other:
Kenosha Sheriff, which runs P25 conventional repeaters, has never been on a scan group - but they are on the Kenosha Scan group now, along with Kenosha county fire. The sheriff traffic sounds very good, while fire traffic is still overdriven, someone needs to back down the audio gain on the receiver.
Was wondering what was going on with this, took a look and the contract was only awarded on April 8th.
Not really speedy. Of course it's likely impossible to tell if this was a delay in getting firms lined up, negotiation over price, or perhaps just a matter of the state freeing up the funds. Of course, it could be something else entirely, who knows.
Only 4 firms responded to the RFP:
• Tusa Consulting (winner winner, evening poultry meal)
• DVA Consulting
• Mission Critical Partners
• Televate
2 of the 4 have extremely low internet presence, which doesn't really engender confidence.
Tusa has done some work with Washington County, so they at least have some exposure to the area.
LR Kimball did not submit a bid - they did engineering work for the initial rollout and you'll see their name on the coverage maps from the state. Interesting that they didn't want to continue participating.
Also of note, some of the state folks that were highly aligned and involved with WISCOM are no longer employed by the state. Perhaps new blood will be a factor in getting the system off the canvas, or it could be a death blow.
In any case, it appears that any report from the consultants will be be forthcoming later than originally planned. In reading the regional minutes, there is some amount of anticipation (waiting) for this report, so hurry up and wait seems to be the order of the day.
Other:
Kenosha Sheriff, which runs P25 conventional repeaters, has never been on a scan group - but they are on the Kenosha Scan group now, along with Kenosha county fire. The sheriff traffic sounds very good, while fire traffic is still overdriven, someone needs to back down the audio gain on the receiver.
Paul-W
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I was just wondering if anyone has heard if the WSP is still planning to switch over to Wiscom any time soon? The last I heard was that they were going to sometime this spring or summer. Also, I did notice today that the office building that had the transmitter antennas for the WSP in downtown Milwaukee no longer has any of the antennas at the top of this building. Did they move them to another site or is this part of their move to transition over to Wiscom?
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I noticed they haven't been doing the R-Call 21 roll call at 8:30 Wednesday mornings lately. Does anyone know if they are now done totally at random times?
Tim
I noticed they haven't been doing the R-Call 21 roll call at 8:30 Wednesday mornings lately. Does anyone know if they are now done totally at random times?
Tim
The weekly Rcall21 still does take place at 8:30am. Today roll call was a little late being conducted. Through out the week a random test is then completed on 2nd and 3rd shift.
It must not have been broadcasted on Greenfield 800MHz site again. I use to hear it all the time on there, but the last few weeks I haven't.
Tim
Tim
The SE region roll call has moved to random times and some of the other regional roll calls have or will be moving to the same type of schedule.
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Curious, why are they doing this? Are they treating these roll calls more like a drill now? IMO that would be a kinda good idea, do the roll calls as a drill to make sure everything is in order for when it might really be needed. N9NRA
Noticed that WSP Post 4 radios started to affiliate with the Rib Mountain site again today. Maybe we will see WSP traffic on WISCOM again soon.
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