WISCOM Thread (all posts regarding WISCOM go here)

[CrabbyMilton]

I goofed someplace. I took a drive Saturday from Milwaukee to the Green Bay area to visit the railroad museum. I added frequencies from both Washington and Fond du lac counties in separate lists of course. I put the 436 in search. Well absolutely, nothing came up. As the old saying goes, better luck next time.

 

[MarcusDude]

Anyone got any idea about 24518? I've been seeing it occasionally in my PRO96Com logs for about a year and a half, and most recently today. I've seen RIDs 406001, 406002, 406003, 406006, 416001, and 416002 either affiliate or pass traffic on the talkgroup.

What do you hear on it? Both the TG and RIDs indicate Bayfield County. 406xxx are likely mobiles, 416xxx are likely portables. Likely a county government non-public safety agency. I see Sawyer has 55518 as Transit. I supposed 24518 could be BART?

 

[DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

I was thinking that at first when I saw it first but the BART bus uses their own talkgroup on the DSC Con+ system. I haven't been around to hear it much besides one time where I heard something about kids and getting something to drink. I put entries in the monitoring notes under the unknown talkgroups section on the WISCOM wiki page whenever I saw it.

Some sort of transit agency would make sense but it only pops up on the Mellen tower every so often.

 

[414RadioTech]

L3Harris Wins $153 Million Contract to Provide Wisconsin Statewide Interoperable Communications

L3Harris Technologies has received a contract worth up to $153 million to deliver an interoperable, critical communication network throughout Wisconsin, enabling public safety agencies to connect through a unified network during emergencies.

www.l3harris.com

 

[evilbrad]

Currious if this means wiscom will become phase2 capable or will all the vhf sites change over to 700/800. Lots of questions. I hope it don't end up how most of Starcom turned out in Chicago suburbs .Has much been said about freqs enc or much more about the new Wiscom vs2.0 will be like?

 

[lenk911]

Currious if this means wiscom will become phase2 capable or will all the vhf sites change over to 700/800

I have heard the long term goal will be 700/800 MHZ probably phase 2.

I believe the VHF spectrum is tenuous for them. South of WI Highway 29 or so, the VHF band is very crowded with legacy users. Phase 2 is an adjacent channel interference issue in VHF. VHF is suffering from so much illegal Part 15 noise the range is heavily impacted. So the existing system is channel starved. Also, most of the state is at the mercy of the US Military with the waiver for the 138-144 MHZ spectrum.

 

[werinshades]

L3Harris Wins $153 Million Contract to Provide Wisconsin Statewide Interoperable Communications

L3Harris Technologies has received a contract worth up to $153 million to deliver an interoperable, critical communication network throughout Wisconsin, enabling public safety agencies to connect through a unified network during emergencies.

www.l3harris.com

As an occasional visitor, I look forward to watching this system get up and running over the coming months/years. I'd expect some interoperability with us here in Illinois and Minnesota too. Scanner programming won't be too difficult as with Harris systems, all frequencies can be used as a control channel and must be added to the sites, and short of programming NAC's, it'll be a breeze. The dreaded encryption will always be out there too.