WV Interoperability System

[me714]

...I know one of the medics around here who is also a radionerd. I've frequently seen the truck that he's in a lot affiliate with every T/G in the radio...
...R

So, come on guys, if you're out there. be nice and share!!! Nobody likes a frequency (or TG) hog!!!...

(After all, this IS West Virginia... In spite of all the huffin and puffin by our politicians and career public service officials - who, as a rule, never leave their offices other than to eat a free meal or go to the potty - there is really not much to hide here! (if there was, Danny Jones, etal; wouldn't have spent their homeland security money on new radar guns...)

As one of the characters in Rocket Boys (one of my favorite movies) anxiously says, as the Russian satellite Sputnik flies overhead, "Boy, 'sure hope that thang don't drop a bomb on us down here". To which one of the boys, after looking around at the tiny town of Coalwood, shrugs and replies, "It'd be a darn waste of a perfectly good bomb....".

And that, my friends, about says it all!!!!

(for those who take this post too seriously, please note the happy emoticons)

So, enough editorializing. I gotta be at a mine in SWV at 6:30am and its almost 1... Ahm goin to bed!!!

 

[wm8s]

Wow. I was just thinking how I never see any new talkgroups anymore... Wednesday evening, radio RID = 00000001 (apparently, God now has a radio; I bet it's at least an XTS5000 Model III with Fascinator) affiliated with every, single talkgroup that I have in my database for 061 and 062 (listed in a recent email), plus the following new ones that I'd never seen before:

06103, 06119, 06201, 06213, 06230, 06231, 06237, 06242, 06243, 06246, 06247, 06260, 06262, 06266, 06267, 06268, 06269, 06270, 06271, 06272, 06275, 06276, and 06277

That brings the total for the county to 82 talkgroups.

...R

 

[SLWilson]

Mason County, WV

Does anyone know anything about Mason County yet.

I was talking to the Gallipolis (Ohio) police chief recently. He was of under the understanding after talking to a Point Pleasant, WV officer that they were using the "new" system in WV. But, I can't seem to find anymore than that out?????? Can't see anything posted here in the database for Mason County....

Thanks,
Steve/KB8FAR

 

[ffemt25]

Does anyone know if the Mineral,Hampshire,Hardy county will be switching over to this system?

 

[mike_s104]

Berkeley Co. System - 453.750MHz

Over the past week I've noticed that occasionally the signal would drop out when the scanner was sitting stationary. Tonight, while a medic unit was en route to the ER, I held the TG and watched the freq being used. It was 453.750MHz. I could move the scanner about 3" and the signal would go up to full strength and then drop completely out for about 1/4 sec then come right back. It only happened with this freq and would happen across all TGs. Anyone else notice this? All other freqs were just fine.

 

[w8mkh]

Hi Folks,

Sorry if it is buried somewhere in 38 pages of posting but what site(s) is Westcom in Wood County using for traffic?

I travel your beautiful state alot. Mostly Greenbrier Co to Wayne Co in to Kentucky or Greenbier Co to Wood Co in to Marietta. Occasionally hear some traffic around Charleston (actually heard encrypted traffic Friday night). Didn't record the talkgroup and I know, that information is worthless without talk group numbers. Sorry.

Thanks in advance for the information on Wood County.

73
de
chris
kq4z

I have been monitoring the WVIRP system for several months here in Wood co
and have heard nothing .
Checked with the radio shop and the answer i got is it is being planned in the future .
But not used here as far as he knew.

 

[dintimid8or]

WESTCOM does not have IRP radios.

 

[hmoutdoors]

Boone County getting on line

I heard the Boone County Sheriff testing radios on 453.3375 T/G 4207 today.

I will try to track the T/Gs today

 

[rfburns]

Over the past week I've noticed that occasionally the signal would drop out .

It acts like power is down quite a bit on that RF channel. Also some TG has been repeatedly coming up for a short period of time with no modulation. I'll have to pay more attention to which TG it is. It was doing it over the weekend and Monday night around the time of the shooting on ***an.

 

[mike_s104]

It acts like power is down quite a bit on that RF channel. Also some TG has been repeatedly coming up for a short period of time with no modulation. I'll have to pay more attention to which TG it is. It was doing it over the weekend and Monday night around the time of the shooting on ***an.

Shooting? I must have missed that.

Yeah, I have noticed some TGs doing that too.

 

[me714]

I heard the Boone County Sheriff testing radios on 453.3375 T/G 4207 today.

Good - that means that Boone is going to more'n likely follow the standard TG pattern that is in use for all the counties so far (except Kanawha, naturally). Bet you'll see EMS and Fire popping up on 4201 and 4203...

 

[rfburns]

Berkeley Co.

Shooting?

Came out as a GSW to the chest of about a 36 year old male. Then it was changed to a GSW to the leg and the patient was being transported to Winchester via POV. BOL for a small car with 2 males. There was so much else going on that night that I didn't pay too much attention to it after that.

 

[mike_s104]

Came out as a GSW to the chest of about a 36 year old male. Then it was changed to a GSW to the leg and the patient was being transported to Winchester via POV. BOL for a small car with 2 males. There was so much else going on that night that I didn't pay too much attention to it after that.

yeah, I remember that now that you mentioned it.

 

[wm8s]

I heard the Boone County Sheriff testing radios on 453.3375 T/G 4207 today.

That finally kills the alphabatetical theory, as Barney used to say:

041 = CABE
042 = BOON
043 = LINC

 

[n3obl]

monitoring on mon county site with pro-96com. noticed some radios come up affilate denied on some ems talkgroups. any ideas. programmed radios wrong?

Frank N3OBL
FF/EMT

 

[wm8s]

monitoring on mon county site with pro-96com. noticed some radios come up affilate denied on some ems talkgroups. any ideas. programmed radios wrong?

Frank N3OBL
FF/EMT

On the flip side, I've seen some radios that appear have been programming errors get grants. At least two radios around here have what appears to be an extra digit in the RID (e.g., instead of 0061-2345, they are 0612-3345), but they still get talkgroups. I assumed that the system was not configured to deny anyone anything while they iron the bugs out. But I have seen denials in the log, too.

 

[wvscanner]

I have had few that were reading as followed

RID TG
6034849 15621
6113953 44549
6116993 36293
6718920 20485

What would I look for if it was denial?

 

[wm8s]

I have had few that were reading as followed

RID TG
6034849 15621
6113953 44549
6116993 36293
6718920 20485

What would I look for if it was denial?

Interesting. None of those RIDs or TGIDs look familiar to me. I wonder if they're decoding errors. Typically, IRP RIDs assigned to county users look like this:

00-cc-nnnn

where cc is the county code (e.g., 61 = KANA), and nnnn is a sequential #. In Kanawha County (as, I assume, elsewhere), the nnnn #s tend to be allocated to departments, agencies, etc., in 100-unit blocks for convenience, ddnn. E.g., I believe that the 100 units of the form 00-61-44-nn are assigned to Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department.

RIDs allocated to state agencies are similar, but all (so far) have a cc of 09. So, e.g., the Medical Examiner has RIDs of the form 00-09-04-nn, the Fire Marshall has 00-09-12-nn, and so on.

And TGIDs are similar, except that the sequence number part of the TGIDs only has 2 digits: 0-cc-nn, so the state agency TGIDs are assigned to ccs in the 90 to 99 range. E.g., 0-61-20 = KANA PD Dispatch, 0-93-01 for DOH F1, etc.

So the ones you listed all seem too big to me. If you only saw them once, I'd chalk it up to a bit-slip decoding error; if you see them frequently, I'm stumped.

...R

 

[wvscanner]

So the ones you listed all seem too big to me. If you only saw them once, I'd chalk it up to a bit-slip decoding error; if you see them frequently, I'm stumped.

...R

I pretty much was thinking of that and why I never posted them before. Yes, it was only 1 hit on those.

 

[mike_s104]

Over the past week I've noticed that occasionally the signal would drop out when the scanner was sitting stationary. Tonight, while a medic unit was en route to the ER, I held the TG and watched the freq being used. It was 453.750MHz. I could move the scanner about 3" and the signal would go up to full strength and then drop completely out for about 1/4 sec then come right back. It only happened with this freq and would happen across all TGs. Anyone else notice this? All other freqs were just fine.

It acts like power is down quite a bit on that RF channel. Also some TG has been repeatedly coming up for a short period of time with no modulation. I'll have to pay more attention to which TG it is. It was doing it over the weekend and Monday night around the time of the shooting on ***an.

it seems to still be doing this and maybe even worse. do they have anything to monitor the system to find issues like this? I'd be afraid someone's going to get hurt.