[Scan-DC] RE: Arlington Radio Test

[Todd Sniffin]

I'm not familiar with Arlington System specifics yet, but if it's
anything like MoCo they may be testing ops channels or vehicle
repeater systems that require the use of specific TGs.

TS

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> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:18:26 -0400
> From: "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Arlington radio tests today
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> Arlington is doing a lot of live testing of their trunked radio system today
> using PD channel 1A. They seem to have a crew going around to various
> locations (mostly Metro platforms) and doing the ol' "Can you hear me now?"
> routine. They also were testing the alert tone earlier today. It's not clear
> why they couldn't use a non-critical channel for this. It would seem that
> the RF channel used for such a test, not the TGID, would be the important
> factor.
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> Cheers,
> Andy
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