I put those new WVOES TG's up on the DB last night. I confirmed them when the radio techs were doing some testing the other day. They would say, "1901 to xxxx on Berkeley 911." and that was on 1907. Caught 1915 similar traffic a few weeks ago. Unless they were just calling out the TG name incorrectly over the air.
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I just heard TG 8021 coming through on Mon Co. tower (102) around 2:41 pm all I heard was Martinsburg didn't catch the unit number then it was encrypted only lasted for about 15 seconds or so then I heard the same guy say 10-8 ... sounds like the dispatcher was the encrypted part ...
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Just heard Jefferson Co. dispatch Fire/EMS on TG 1901 from the Berkeley Site. Not sure if it was the same as their dispatch TG since I was not monitoring Jefferson. Also, there were some fire traffic as well as tones dropped for an accident on I81 with an ejection. Why would Jefferson be toned for that? For the fire, they were alerting Berkeley and Clarke Co. VA for a station fill.
Just heard Jefferson Co. dispatch Fire/EMS on TG 1901 from the Berkeley Site. Not sure if it was the same as their dispatch TG since I was not monitoring Jefferson. Also, there were some fire traffic as well as tones dropped for an accident on I81 with an ejection. Why would Jefferson be toned for that? For the fire, they were alerting Berkeley and Clarke Co. VA for a station fill.
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I think this is the first of things to come where they'll be using the 1900 series talkgroups for interoperability. I think we were talking last week about how dispatchers had to relay comms between BC units to JC units being that they're all on the WVIRS. Anyhow, I record the audio every day for these groups, so I hope to get more on them and what they're used for. I'm sure we'll hear more traffic on them as time progresses as other counties come online, like Hampshire and Morgan.
I think this is the first of things to come where they'll be using the 1900 series talkgroups for interoperability. I think we were talking last week about how dispatchers had to relay comms between BC units to JC units being that they're all on the WVIRS. Anyhow, I record the audio every day for these groups, so I hope to get more on them and what they're used for. I'm sure we'll hear more traffic on them as time progresses as other counties come online, like Hampshire and Morgan.
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I thought back about what we talked about in reference to the fire in Jefferson last week and what you mentioned about radio issues before that. Like you said, I think this is directly related to either or both. Have you noticed any Berkeley TGs or RIDs showing up on the Jefferson site? All traffic for Jefferson is on the Berkeley site too.
Yes, it appears all of the major BC TG's are being simulcasted on the JC site now.
I started monitoring the Jefferson site last night and noticed that as well. Wonder what they're up to.
I see that with what few TG that runs down here. Prinecton fire is on McCommas in Mercer Co. but also can hear them on Ghent tower at the same time. Bluefield Fire is the same why but Bluefield Police is not, but I think they run off with Bluefield tower. Then you have McDowell County Police that is on McCommas site while they have one in their own county at Welch.
They might be trying to fill in some dead spots with overlapping coverage from another site.
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If anyone can monitor Jefferson County can you visit this thread and tell us what we're doing wrong? I can't hear a thing.
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All day Saturday it appears the radio techs were doing coverage checks throughout I-70 in MD and testing all around Berkeley Springs in a 10 or so mile radius west and Rt 9 all the way back through into Berkeley County and up through I-81 back upto 70 again into MD. I'm starting to think that the Ridge site is not for Hampshire county but for Morgan County, since they run Mutual Aid calls into MD! Why else would anyone be doing testing in that area for Hampshire? He was definitely affiliated with the site 27 (Radio ID 130006) that we're seeing as Berkeley County's neighbor when running Pro96COM or Unitrunker.
It could be Hampshire Co since it boarders MD as well.
I am not sure why site 27 is listed as Hampshire County. The FCC license states Morgan County on it several places. The transmitter is near the Frederick/ Morgan / Hampshire county conjucture. I think it was listed as being Hampshire simply because of its transmitter location.
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3002762
Another thing I noticed, On my BC 996, I put both blocks of Morgan County's frequencies, and only get transmisions on the one listed above.
But on my 796, I had changed only the *first frequency* to the working control channel. The other frequencies all remained in the from original set. I made no other changes on that scanner. Occasionally, like in Saturday's testing, some of the transmissions appeared in the original set. I wonder if Morgan will use both blocks of freqs for coverage, and only have one control channel.
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http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3002762
Another thing I noticed, On my BC 996, I put both blocks of Morgan County's frequencies, and only get transmisions on the one listed above.
But on my 796, I had changed only the *first frequency* to the working control channel. The other frequencies all remained in the from original set. I made no other changes on that scanner. Occasionally, like in Saturday's testing, some of the transmissions appeared in the original set. I wonder if Morgan will use both blocks of freqs for coverage, and only have one control channel.
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Berkeley 911 is 1927
Jefferson 911 is 1935
These two are each agencies respective statewide channel.
Thanks. That fits the formula. I think the techs musta been reading the radios wrong earlier. Now I just gotta figger' out why McDowell and Mercer seemed flipped....
I agree that Site 27 should be Morgan County as well. With all the testing it just doesn't fit that it could be Hampshire. Even though Hampshire County borders the state of MD on the north, all the testing was done around Morgan county.
Also, last night between 2am and 4am, it looks like techs were working on site 27. It kept alternating CC's. I managed to connect one of my PSRs to PRO96COM and found that Site 26 was up out of Romney listed as a neighbor and showed 453.6125 as it's CC, but I'm too far away up here in Ranson to receive it. Can anyone confirm that CC is or has been up?
Also, last night between 2am and 4am, it looks like techs were working on site 27. It kept alternating CC's. I managed to connect one of my PSRs to PRO96COM and found that Site 26 was up out of Romney listed as a neighbor and showed 453.6125 as it's CC, but I'm too far away up here in Ranson to receive it. Can anyone confirm that CC is or has been up?
should the DB be updated? if so, then we need to figure out what the other TGs are for,
The tower shows by GPS being in Hampshire County missed Morgan about a little over a mile. I placed a thumb tack on its location.
Right, I agree. Look at Jefferson County. Our WVIRP xmitter is up on Blue Ridge Mtn just feet from the Loudoun Co, VA line. I managed to grab some more testing audio from the past 36 hours from the Ridge site and it appears they were riding around I68 in MD all the way out to Cumberland and back again. This site has some incredible coverage. Also, I added control and alternate channels to the DB for the Romney site. I can maybe hear the scratch of the CC once every 45 seconds on my rigs here, so that site is definitely online and working for Hampshire Co.
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