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dintimid8or

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Kenwood just introduced some P-25 products that will work in the West Virginia system and were endorsed by the DHHR Communications Director.
 

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me714 said:
On another note: I will be the first to admit that I don't follow the technical aspects of the hobby like I used to years ago, so I may have missed something - BUT, on TG 1, I heard one of the techs testing his KENWOOD on the system. Honest. Called it by name. did test counts...

I thought this was a proprietaty motorola system, and that only motorla radios would work on it.

See, e.g.,

http://www.nielsoncom.com/kenwood/TK-5210-1.pdf
 

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Hmmm, well, how 'bout that? Bet that makes Moro's jaws tight, since Kenwoods tend to be much less expensive (and, in my opinion, more flexible). :)
 

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At the Vandalia Gathering tonite, I saw the ultimate in radio interoperability. Since Capitol PD has switched to the IRP system, but apparently doesn't have enough radios for everyone, they're still on their conventional 800 MHz P25 repeater. And the Cultural Center has three VHF high-band repeaters. So in order to be able to talk to everyone, one of the security guards was walking around carrying three HTs, and doing it kinda awkwardly. I got a snicker. Sure was good bluegrass, anyway...

...R
 

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Picked up TG 911 yesterday on Garfield. It was a short seies of transmissions between Harrison and Marion counties, discussing mutual aid dispatch of EMS and Fire to an accident somewhere. (Taylor EMS was also mentioned).

Has anyone else heard traffic on 911? Just curious - wonder if it is a mutual aid TG?
 

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I have. Always similar stuff (BOLOs, etc.). I've always assumed, both from the nature of the traffic and the TG # ("911") that it was the primary inter-911 center TG.

Still getting sporadic encrypted traffic on 8007 on tower 0109. Hope nobody else figures out the undocumented "decrypt" key sequence on the 996...

...R
 

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Roger encription on 8007, heard a couple of transmissions at mile 86 going south on I-64/77 at about 3 this afternoon.
 

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fmon said:
Roger encription on 8007, heard a couple of transmissions at mile 86 going south on I-64/77 at about 3 this afternoon.


from what I have seen so far, it looks all TGs in the 8000 range are encrypted. not saying that encryption is only limited to that series of TGs though.
 

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I expect some good snags from the eastern panhandle folks, given all of the activity up there today re: the Guard's commo guys.
 

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Ok. I need some help on this. I've been keeping up on this a good bit, but i don't know how to read the freq chart. basicily, I don't know what freq goes with what discription. Any help would be great!
 

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danstrainz said:
Ok. I need some help on this. I've been keeping up on this a good bit, but i don't know how to read the freq chart. basicily, I don't know what freq goes with what discription. Any help would be great!


do you mean freq or TG ID?

for the freqs, find the site/locality you want to monitor/program and follow it over left to right. the ones in red are primary control channels and the ones in blue are secondary.

from what I gather, the TGs are there on all sites but not used or active so you won't have dups. basically you won't have TG 12345 on site XYZ being used for PD and the same TG on site ZXY being used for EMS. there's nothing special to read the chart for the TGs, find the locality and agency. under that heading, you find the appropriate TG. the TG ID is the DEC number.
 

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Hello everyone,

As promised here are the talk groups for the Kanawha County EMS on the state TRS.

KCA Disp
KCA ALS
KCA BLS
KCA TAC 1
KCA TAC2
KCA TAC3
KCA TAC4
KCA TK 1
KCA TK 2

They are not being used currently, and I do not have the numbers to program for the talk groups but these are the ones that are programmed into their ambulance radios. In addition, it appears that the Kanawha County VFD's will have some talk groups as well as all of the paid municipal FD's will be dispatched on one talk group. Also, each state medical command center will have 5 talk groups in addition to the UHF Med Channels.

Take care all. Sorry for the long-winded post.
 

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That is an interesting article.

Is there coverage down through Bluefield and has anyone copied any system testing on the Turnpike and any potential talkgroups?

The Dorton KSP site has a duplicate frequency (460.1375) with one of the cc's in Huntington. I know that Huntington won't be a site for Turnpike users but I'm sure it does cause some problems at times.

I always forget to change my Dorton KSP freq to Moto so it doesn't lock up on the cc too.
 

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I'm hearing a control channel on 453.075 Its showing T010F The database says the frequency is from Boone County but the tower doesn't match. I guess it could be from the turnpike. Anybody else hearing this?
 

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T010F is hex for tower 115, guess Boone is active and needs the temp site number 1004 changed to 115.

BTW, Kearnesville tower 1005 has a couple of talkgroups listed. It too should be displaying a permanent tower number.
 

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I heard the radio techs talking about the Workman's knob tower the other day; I guess they got it finished. I'll run out to Southridge this evening and see if I can hear anything.

...R
 
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