[Scan-DC] rebanding in Maryland (specifically Howard)

[Doug Kitchener]

All, FYI, apparently Howard County has rebanded... I'm not normally within range of their system but happened to cross through there twice in the last week on the way "downy ocean hon" and back... had the PRO-197 in the car and not a peep did I hear, nor was the radio showing that it was trunking.

I've just redone the radio; may be over that way in the next few days and if so, will give you a report... I'm pretty confident about it working OK though; my transition when MontCamera County cut over was seamless.

By the way - the Ocean City and Worcester county systems are currently using frequencies that are between 855 and 861 MHz - does anyone know if they will have to change?  Howard and Montgomery were operating from 866 - 869 MHz... thanks!  (I'll try to take a look tomorrow at the wiki article that's mentioned below.)

DK

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> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 21:15:12 -0400
> From: ka3jjz1 at verizon.net
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] rebanding in Maryland
>
> A poster has reported in the RadioReference Maryland forum that Howard
> has begun rebanding. To find the necessary freqs, take the current ones
> and subtract 15 Mhz. A custom table will be needed to properly track
> this system. In addition, there was a report that supposedly Montgomery
> will be rebanded sometime around the 13th or so.
>
> There's a thread that gives a summary of some of the concepts (and
> straightens out a few errors) regarding rebanding. The URL is
> below...and it's got links to the threads for the Montgomery (which
> failed the first time around), Howard (just starting) and Harford (been
> completed for awhile now) rebanding, along with the rebanding wiki
> article. The wiki article contains numerous links you can use to see if
> your scanner (and/or programming) needs updating...
>
> http://forums.radioreference.com/maryland-radio-discussion-forum/245791-rebanding-maryland.html
>
> HTH...Mike