Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Pittsburgh TS

The old Pittsburgh Motorola TRS system control channel has been off the air for a few days now. All users have migrated to the DMR Capacity Plus system except for animal control. The old system has been deleted.

Animal control is now using Pittsburgh police Ch. 6 Admin, 453.950 PL 225.7, Unit #6--.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

K3CSF/R on the air

K3CSF/R - 440.600 PL 131.8 is on the air. Echo link node 77119. This is located on the Castle Shannon Boro building. The repeater is on the air thanks in large part to Paul AB3PJ.

The repeater will be used by CSVFD ARC. the repeater is open for all to use. Please send reports to k3csf.arc@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Meadows Race Track And Casino

Meadows Race Track And Casino
DMR Capacity Plus
Color Code 1
451.5625 - LCN 1
451.8625 - LCN 2
452.1625 - LCN 3
452.4625 - LCN 4
452.8125 - LCN 5

Talk Groups
1 - Casino Floor
4 - Unknown
6 - Security
9 - Unknown
11 - Unknown
15 - EMS
17 - Engineers
18 - Custodians
19 - Unknown

North Strabane Fire

North Strabane Fire 170.425 - DPL 114 - Simulcast 154.130

Got a close call hit on this in the area of the Meadows.

Friday, August 5, 2016

Pittsburgh DMR Trunked System

Pittsburgh DMR Trunked System.
System ID 482 Color Code 1 Site 1
860.2625 - LCN 1 Control Channel
859.2625 - LCN 2 Control Channel
856.2625 - LCN 5
860.7625 - LCN 6
859.7625 - LCN 7
858.7625 - LCN 8

Talk Groups :
4 - DPW
14 - Special Events

Talk Group 14 is being used at the Regatta

The old Motorola system is still active. Animal control, and refuse are still using it.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

DMR

Whistler released its final and fully supported DMR upgrade for their 1080, 1088, 1095 and 1098 scanners. this is a free upgrade for those scanners. These radios will not be able to be upgraded for NXDN. This was released as was expected at the end of the month. This makes Whistler the first scanner company to release a fully supported DMR, trunking upgrade.

The Whistler TRX-1 and TRX-2 radios will have DMR, and are to be updated to include NXDN in September. Theses radios were announced to be available at the end of July.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

New Digital Scanners

Whistler has just announced the TRX-1 (portable), and TRX-2 (base/mobile). These radios are P25 phase I, P25 Phase II, X2 TDMA, and DMR trunking scanners. NXDN is in the works, and will be a free upgrade for these radios. To be available late June.

Whistler is also going to provide those with the 1080, 1088, 1095and 1098 radios the DMR upgrade for FREE.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Allegheny County DPW

Brian N3SGU passed along the following information on Allegheny County DPW

District 1 is on Wildwood Rd next to North Park
District 2 is on Campbells Run Rd in Carnegie
District 3 is on Rail Road St in Penn Hills
District 4 is on Lovedale Rd in Elizabeth
District 5 is located in South Park
District 6 is no longer in use
District 7 is under the 40th St Bridge in Lawrenceville
District 8 is on Buttermilk Hollow in West Mifflin

Numbering is as follows
X- is the district number
X-0 is district base
X-1 is district supervisor
X-2 to 19 are district pick up trucks
X-20 to 29 are district single axle dumps
X-30 to 39 are district tandems
X-40 is district street sweeper

Paving trucks do not have a district

Parks also have trucks they use the following prefixes :
North Park - NP
South Park - SP
Boyce Park - BP
Harrison Hills - HH
Round Hill - RH
White Oak - WO
Hartwood - HW
Deer Lakes - DL
The Parks dump trucks are also used for snow removal. 

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Allegheny County DPW

494.9250   pl 173.8   is going to be tested by the Public Works Dept. My location in Penn Hills has a Few mobles and a base radio installed as of today 5/2/2016. If they test ok Public works should have good coverage once again.

Brian N3sgu
 
I am hearing a couple of trucks using the frequency this morning. 

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Pittsburgh First Night

Pittsburgh First Night.
457.525 - DPL 732 - Simplex
457.600 - DPL 423 - Simplex
457.800 - DPL 162 - Simplex