Hearing more in 9189 unit 1770 talking about road condition and later another talking that they could reach someone one on channel 1 then the guy started to call for the fire marshall office. all traffic was on McCommas site.
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FIRE MARSHAL 1770 = State Fire Marshal Sterling Lewis (RID 91201).
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Forgot to add this earlier... As speculated in a previous post, county 58 is Wyoming County.
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Hearing ALOT of traffic off TG 9189 it's coming thru over the Mon. tower right now....
It looks like these are the radios that the State bought for the 55 EOCs. So far, they have (with one odd exception) followed a simple RID pattern (90xx where xx is the each county's alphabetical order. E.g., 9021 is Lewis County EOC, because Lewis is the 21st county alphabetically).
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2 users on tg 9305 this afternoon on the Berkeley Co. site. At one time they were discussing bridges in Huntington. In the db as WVDOT District 3.
I see that TG every once in a while. There were on about 2 days ago too.
I have a radio that logs onto it here in Beckley during the bad weather but never heard anyone on it.
Dunno why the dB says District 3. It's just channel 3. DOH supervisors (or "F.O.C.", as they're known) have channels 1-5, and all the rest of the peons have only channels 3-5.
Pendleton
Might be a far shot, but has anyone heard anything about Pendleton Co. going to the WVIRP? Just asking because I know someone who just bought a new scanner and was wondering if they would need a digital one sooner or later? I know the last time I was there the DNR units I heard (what was about all I heard) were all digital (on their own freq and not a WVIRP tower).
Might be a far shot, but has anyone heard anything about Pendleton Co. going to the WVIRP? Just asking because I know someone who just bought a new scanner and was wondering if they would need a digital one sooner or later? I know the last time I was there the DNR units I heard (what was about all I heard) were all digital (on their own freq and not a WVIRP tower).
Man, police dispatch(TG 6220) has been awful busy this past hour something must be up. I don't normally hear that much traffic but it's very active tonight.
Are you talking about the Charleston area? I've had dupont on my 2096 but have never heard anything at all. BTW,WVIRP is digtal and trunked.
I'm sure there are more to a complete answer than what I can give but in short...both.
Yes, trunked, and yes, digital. If you're in Charleston, it's similar to (but far larger than) the analog EDACS systems at Dow's South Charleston plant and Bayer's Institute plant. In all three, the control channel is digital, and voice comms are allocated to any free physical repeater (although the IRP system will avoid the alternate control channel repeater if it can, while the EDACS systems rotate through all of the repeaters). In the IRP system, though, those voice comms are also digital (P-25). Plus, all of the sites in the system are linked together to allow more or less seemless roaming of subscribers from area to area (although not all talkgroups are allowed on all sites).
So you'll need a digital scanner (e.g., a PSR-500 or -600, a BCD-396 or -996, etc.).
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gambill1,DON'T buy a used Uniden 296D as it will not work with the WVIRP,Uniden won't support this scanner even though they have a rebanding update,totally useless scanner to me.Get yourself a scanner along the lines of what wm8s said...
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IRP Humor #1
I have on several occasions seen radios with RIDs that were obviously wrong. Given that the IRP allows locals to program their own radios (subject to some system key security and other restrictions), it's no surprise. Today, for example, I saw RID 04391172. And once before, I saw 06396161. A scientific calculator shows how these errors likely happened: 04391172 in decimal is 430104 in hex, and 06396161 in decimal is 619901 in hex. 430104 is a valid Lincoln County RID (probably one of the EMA guys?), and 619901 is a valid Kanawha Co RID (prob. same). My bet is that they're entering a decimal TG into a field that wants it in hex.
IRP Humor #2
I heard what I hope are not two DOH radio techs trying to get a radio programmed this morning. They couldn't get Scan to work. The guy who's radio was supposed to be scanning TGs 9301-9309 (X) was on 9311. The other guy (Y) called him on 9305, and X heard Y (cuz he was scanning), but X's radio apparently just wasn't programmed to respond on the scanned channel (rather than the dialed channel), so when X answered Y, it came out on 9311 and, of course, Y didn't hear him cuz Y was on 9305. And then Y called X on 9309, and the same thing happened: X answered on 9311, but Y was on 9309 and didn't hear him. So they gave up and concluded Scan was broken.
IRP Humor #1
I have on several occasions seen radios with RIDs that were obviously wrong. Given that the IRP allows locals to program their own radios (subject to some system key security and other restrictions), it's no surprise. Today, for example, I saw RID 04391172. And once before, I saw 06396161. A scientific calculator shows how these errors likely happened: 04391172 in decimal is 430104 in hex, and 06396161 in decimal is 619901 in hex. 430104 is a valid Lincoln County RID (probably one of the EMA guys?), and 619901 is a valid Kanawha Co RID (prob. same). My bet is that they're entering a decimal TG into a field that wants it in hex.
IRP Humor #2
I heard what I hope are not two DOH radio techs trying to get a radio programmed this morning. They couldn't get Scan to work. The guy who's radio was supposed to be scanning TGs 9301-9309 (X) was on 9311. The other guy (Y) called him on 9305, and X heard Y (cuz he was scanning), but X's radio apparently just wasn't programmed to respond on the scanned channel (rather than the dialed channel), so when X answered Y, it came out on 9311 and, of course, Y didn't hear him cuz Y was on 9305. And then Y called X on 9309, and the same thing happened: X answered on 9311, but Y was on 9309 and didn't hear him. So they gave up and concluded Scan was broken.
Yesterday, I caught some traffic which I think was Berkeley Co. 90 on TG 1127. They were calling it "Private" so it might be their private TG. I don't see that one used a lot so its hard to figure out what it really is.
Is the system up??
Hello fellow WV'eers. I was traveling up in WV today. I came up from NC and traveled up I 77 to Charleston and had my GRE 600 loaded up with the WV interop system and couldn't believe that I never got the first hit on any talkgroup. Not even sure if I was receiving any tower sites. I got a bunch of the conventional frequencies okay but no P25 stuff. Whats up with this?? Is there no activity in the southern half of the state???
Hello fellow WV'eers. I was traveling up in WV today. I came up from NC and traveled up I 77 to Charleston and had my GRE 600 loaded up with the WV interop system and couldn't believe that I never got the first hit on any talkgroup. Not even sure if I was receiving any tower sites. I got a bunch of the conventional frequencies okay but no P25 stuff. Whats up with this?? Is there no activity in the southern half of the state???
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