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I live in Illinois where's there's a statewide P25 system (http://www.starcom21.com) that's been on-line with all of the State Police districts for a few months - It works fairly well although from my experience, a lot of the towers could use more frequencies (Pro96Com shows a lot of queued channel grants). I have 3 996s, a 396, and a 296 and they all work well tracking the system but the 296 won't do the 700 MHz sites.
I have tried to program a 700 freq into both my 396 and 996 and the last digit (5) does not appear. Does the freq work anyway and just not show or is it not really needed?
mike wrote:I wonder if the 700's are back up if they need to interop with the feds?
No, each P25 Trunked site can use both 800 and 700 or one or the other just like how the channels are used now. The current technology RCS uses doesn't permit this though. Only true P25 trunked systems support 700 and 800 operation.
The 380MHz system used by Camp Pendleton is an example of a true P25 trunked system. That system could theoretically operate on 380MHz or somewhere within the 406MHz Fed/Mil band. Since the portables and mobiles support such wideband operation it makes no difference the freqs are so far away from each other.
What does fire think of the digital audio quality vs the analog quality for fighting fires ive heard firefighters from other states ude digital fighting fires and I think it garbles out alot when firefighting sometimes does anyone else have an opinion?