Here is some news from the minutes of the LEAN Meeting minutes several months ago.
Here is the excerpt:
The Highway Patrol has received an extension to remain on the RCS only until their Gold
channel becomes operational, then they will be off the RCS. The Highway Patrol would still
be able to patch RCS resources on their consoles even though the officers in the field would
no longer have the RCS resources in their radios. The Highway Patrol is still looking for
input regarding any incidents that they assisted on which would not have been possible
without the use of the RCS. Submissions of incidents may continue to be submitted to
CHP RCS
Ya, I was passing thru Ramona the other day.. They made quite good use of it car to car up there.. Down in the city, I hear from chatter from time to time on it as well.Mikey wrote:I heard them testing the Gold (39.6000) again yesterday and today ... The El Cajon units continued to use 39.6000 as a car-to-car channel even after the move to RCS
Opps, my bad.
I read the next month's minutes and it appears that CHP has found funding to stay into 07. This is the last month's minutes available now.
excerpt.
Highway Patrol had good news for the committee and RCS members in general. The
Highway Patrol has received an extension to remain on the RCS for the remainder of this
year and into 2007. In addition, the Oceanside office is now fielding RCS portable radios for
their officers. This allows the Highway Patrol officers to scan and become more pro-active
in incidents in North County by being able to scan all the agencies on the RCS in the area
and receiving the information in real-time instead of the delays associated with the passing of
information via landlines. Highway Patrol now also has an emergency marker on their Low
Band frequency to denote when the radio is handling an emergency situation.
I read the next month's minutes and it appears that CHP has found funding to stay into 07. This is the last month's minutes available now.
excerpt.
Highway Patrol had good news for the committee and RCS members in general. The
Highway Patrol has received an extension to remain on the RCS for the remainder of this
year and into 2007. In addition, the Oceanside office is now fielding RCS portable radios for
their officers. This allows the Highway Patrol officers to scan and become more pro-active
in incidents in North County by being able to scan all the agencies on the RCS in the area
and receiving the information in real-time instead of the delays associated with the passing of
information via landlines. Highway Patrol now also has an emergency marker on their Low
Band frequency to denote when the radio is handling an emergency situation.
CHP has had an emergency marker on their low band freqs as long as I can remember listening - now if the PDs on RCS could only get that. It's doable on trunked systems because San Diego PD does it - wonder why other agencies who HAD emergency tones on VHF/UHF haven't pushed for them on their trunked system?Highway Patrol now also has an emergency marker on their Low
Band frequency to denote when the radio is handling an emergency situation.
Chula Vista had an emergency marker a few months ago. I don't know if they still do. It sounded like the tone a telephone makes when pressing a button for about 1 second.
Up in LA, Glendale PD uses an emergency marker on their trunk system (I've heard it on both analog and digital), do it obvously can be done.
Regarding the Gold, what repeater locations does it use? I thought I've heard it in the past from my location north of Murrieta but I was unable to hear the testing from up there yesterday (but could on my SD radio). I can hear El Centro on 42.920 (base only) and San Diego on 39.400 is hit and miss.
Up in LA, Glendale PD uses an emergency marker on their trunk system (I've heard it on both analog and digital), do it obvously can be done.
Regarding the Gold, what repeater locations does it use? I thought I've heard it in the past from my location north of Murrieta but I was unable to hear the testing from up there yesterday (but could on my SD radio). I can hear El Centro on 42.920 (base only) and San Diego on 39.400 is hit and miss.
The Gold is a simulcast channel. Multiple sites, same freq. So is the TAN. That's why they often sound "odd" or "off" because the timing is off.brandon wrote: Regarding the Gold, what repeater locations does it use? I thought I've heard it in the past from my location north of Murrieta but I was unable to hear the testing from up there yesterday (but could on my SD radio). I can hear El Centro on 42.920 (base only) and San Diego on 39.400 is hit and miss.
I'm not sure where all of the GOLD sites are (one is on Cuyamaca Pk) however, prehaps they were only testing one site you couldn't hear from Muttieta.