The County/City updated the TRS last night as part of the re-banding project. Some freqs were dropped and others added. You also need a custom trunking table and re-band capable scanner to monitor properly.
See my post in this forum and freq updates in the database as soon as they are published.
What type of scanner do you have?
Thanks Again
There is actually a contract to install a new digital APCO25 trunking system towards the end of this year but that will be for the county only. The city will remain on this analog system for the near term. Some of the frequenencies from this system will move to the new one and some will stay.
Now my confusion.... I expected as you stated that a new scanner with custom freq tables would be needed. I programmed 2 GRE PSR600s and 1 GRE PSR500 along with 2 PRO-2096s this way with rebanded tables and they work. My surprise is my old PRO-2053 scanner also continues to track the system with the simple change of the new control channel.
How is this possible? If the newer scanners are using the new tables then the system must be sending the new channel numbers right? If so, then how is the old scanner also able to track when it doesn't know about the new channel numbers for the voice channels?
For example, the voice freq of 856.4625 was FCC channel 219 prior to rebanding. After rebanding it is supposed to be channel 329 for the same freq. I would expect the older scanner to go this frequency when it sees channel 219 but the newer scanner with the custom tables should require the control channel to tell it channel 329 to get the same frequency. Is the control channel sending out 2 different channel numbers for the same frequency?
I am glad it is working since it stops my older scanners from becoming door stops but I don't understand it. Can anybody explain? Is anyone still using an older supposedly not rebandable scanner and it still works (once the control channel is changed to 857.1625)?
John
There is actually a contract to install a new digital APCO25 trunking system towards the end of this year but that will be for the county only. The city will remain on this analog system for the near term. Some of the frequenencies from this system will move to the new one and some will stay.
Now my confusion.... I expected as you stated that a new scanner with custom freq tables would be needed. I programmed 2 GRE PSR600s and 1 GRE PSR500 along with 2 PRO-2096s this way with rebanded tables and they work. My surprise is my old PRO-2053 scanner also continues to track the system with the simple change of the new control channel.
How is this possible? If the newer scanners are using the new tables then the system must be sending the new channel numbers right? If so, then how is the old scanner also able to track when it doesn't know about the new channel numbers for the voice channels?
For example, the voice freq of 856.4625 was FCC channel 219 prior to rebanding. After rebanding it is supposed to be channel 329 for the same freq. I would expect the older scanner to go this frequency when it sees channel 219 but the newer scanner with the custom tables should require the control channel to tell it channel 329 to get the same frequency. Is the control channel sending out 2 different channel numbers for the same frequency?
I am glad it is working since it stops my older scanners from becoming door stops but I don't understand it. Can anybody explain? Is anyone still using an older supposedly not rebandable scanner and it still works (once the control channel is changed to 857.1625)?
John
Is this the first reband in VA?
Thanks Allen. Not only Win500 but Win96 also. Had two p500 files with Roanoke and one p96. I recall discussion on multi county EDACS (Amherst) and your post on the airport now that you mention it.The first Moto reband that I know of was Richmond Int'l Airport last year. Everything went down exactly 15 MHz. I think that Amherst and Hanover have also rebanded their EDACS, and Alleghany Co. has rebanded the 800 stuff that people keep saying is LTR, but that my radio cannot ID as such.
They're pretty sneaky...I'm sure glad there Don put a rebanding function on Win500!
73/Allen (N4JRI)
Is this the first reband in VA?
The radio shop and Moto techs have been reprogramming the radios with new freqs for months. There must be a way to have the Moto radios track using both Frequency sets, otherwise they would not have been working up until the switchover a few days ago... I will see what I can find out from my sources..