[Scan-DC] UPDATE Re: Montgomery County Rebanding within 30 days

Tue Jan 24 09:44:55 EST 2012

So then what are the 823.XXXX freqs going to be used for?

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-----Original message-----
From: Dave <afdltret at comcast.net>
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 02:41:45 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] UPDATE Re: Montgomery County Rebanding within 30 days

Ok James I misread your reply, but I guess we are on the same page on 
this issue. One other thing that happened in Broward County FL when they 
did the rebanding they also shuffled almost every talk group (at least 
for PD) to either a new ID or new name. When I inquired to members of 
the Florida group as to why, the general feeling was because every radio 
either has to be re-programmed or new, then that is the time to do any 
house cleaning or whatever to your radio system? Hopefully they won't do 
that in Montgomery County.

Dave M.

On 1/23/2012 21:31, Dave wrote:
>    I do not have all the particulars with this but the comment about
> moving users out of the 851-853 spectrum does not apply to Public
> Safety. The Public Safety Systems that have already rebanded that had
> any 866-868 frequencies have all been moved down 15MHZ to the 851-853
> spectrum. I am listening to to 2 different trunked systems with the
> control frequencies 851 to 853. The only thing that you have to watch
> for once they actually complete the rebanding is that they may not
> actually use the same frequencies (down 15mhz) I mean that they used
> before.
> In many areas they have used different channels or in some cases added
> new frequencies and used maybe one of them as control channel. However
> all 866-868 will come down 15mhz and of course the inputs also.
>
> Dave M.
>
>
> On 1/23/2012 21:10, Wadsworth, James wrote:
>> Doug, do some more reading. 800 MHz rebanding has been in the news for  
years. The first phase is moving systems (frequencies) out of the 851 to 853  
MHz spectrum. So systems that currently operate from 851 to 860 MHz are  
getting shuffled to 854 to 860 MHz. They get put into available frequencies  
that will not cause any loss of capabilities. Then the systems that operate  
in the 866 to 868 MHz range will get picked up and moved 15 MHz down to take  
over the vacated spectrum. NEXTEL is coordinating license moves.  It is a  
nationwide plan that is easily googled. 15 MHz is correct.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Doug Kitchener [mailto:oldsdoug at hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 08:55 PM
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] UPDATE Re:  Montgomery County Rebanding within 30 days
>>
>>
>> Okay, I started doing a little digging on this this evening, and I  
suspect the original information given below is incorrect.  I looked up the  
current control channels of the Montgomery County system and they were:
>>
>> 868.86250 (Primary)
>> 868.68750 (Alternate)
>>
>> 868.88750 (Alternate)
>> 868.93750 (Alternate)
>>
>> Subtracting 15 MHz (as below) from each of them puts them at 853.####,  
but a check of the FCC database reveals no licenses for those frequencies  
for Montgomery County.  I _did_ find licenses in the 823 MHZ range, however,  
which would be not 15, but _45_ MHz lower than the current control  
frequencies... so I suspect that the new control channel frequencies will  
be:
>>
>> 823.86250 (Primary)
>> 823.68750 (Alternate)
>> 823.88750 (Alternate)
>> 823.93750 (Alternate)
>>
>> The FCC license database shows 21 frequencies in the 821 - 823 MHZ range  
for Montgomery County (under the call sign WPVK-244); they are:
>>
>> 821.2125
>> 821.2750
>> 821.3375
>> 821.4875
>> 821.6500
>> 822.7375
>> 822.8375
>> 822.8875
>> 822.9125
>> 823.1125
>> 823.1625
>> 823.2750
>> 823.3625
>> 823.3875
>> 823.4375
>> 823.6125
>> 823.6375
>> 823.6875
>> 823.8625
>> 823.8875
>> 823.9375
>>
>> I'm guessing that those will be the frequencies of the system after the  
rebanding, with the control channels (control frequencies!) as above.
>>
>> I have my spies working on this - will post anything I find out.
>>
>> DK
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: oldsdoug at hotmail.com
>>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:15 -0500
>>> Subject: [Scan-DC] Montgomery County Rebanding within 30 days
>>>
>>>
>>> I got this from the horse's mouth - a tip of the hat to the gentleman  
that I spoke to (all right, to whom I spoke).
>>>
>>> I was in the Giant on Crabbs Branch Way a couple of hours ago; in front  
of me in line was a gentleman who was wearing a "Montgomery County Radio  
Communications" jacket.  Needless to say, I accosted him... he was kind  
enough to give me a couple of minutes, and told me that they will be  
rebanding within the next 30 days or so... exact date is apparently not yet  
determined.  He told me to subtract 15 MHz from the current frequencies of  
the four control channels and that should do the trick.
>>>
>>> 2000 hours, WPVA-690&   WPVK-2....... 4 4.
>>    		 	   		
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