[ScanIndiana] ISP District 42 Versailles

Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:30:25 -0700 (PDT)

Smart Zone would appear to be a wonderful thing, however ISP will eventually "turn off" the ability for talkgroups to function outside of the general area of their district.  Currently, the District 42 talkgroups can associate, as you phrase it, with the Johnson County system, and whenever units are in the area, they can utilize either the Franklin site, or the Mooresville site.  This works great for testing, however it is mainly being done because the current system in District 42 is utilizing base stations at only current, existing ISP tower sites within the district (Versailles, Patriot, Madison, and Peppertown).  Once the system is completely built out, there will be sufficient coverage for their district without the use of the other repeater sites.
To answer the original question, or maybe to "shed some light", the Peppertown site is not actually in District 42, but is just inside District 55.  The Versailles and Connersville Districts have utilized that tower site for years, with a lowband receiver and the signal being relayed to the specific districts by microwave.  The site works well to cover alot of the northern parts of the Versailles District, and, Franklin County was also part of the SE Indiana Consortium.  Eventually, local departments will be coming on the system, along with ISP and INDOT.

 "Matthew C. Payne" wrote:What is really funny is that I hear 24464 (ISP Primary) on the Johnson
County system all the time. Whenever a District 42 unit gets close enough
to Franklin to vote into the system at that tower, that talkgroup is
"carried" (for lack of a better term) up to this system. Traffic comes
through clear as day.

We are probably going to have to rethink how we classify talkgroups and
systems here. Take a look at EVERY ISP system on IndyScan. Notice that
no talkgroup is EVER repeated? There is no 16048 anywhere other than on
District 52's system, for example. Whenever a unit roams into the range
of a specific system, than their radio "associates" with the local system,
and ALL traffic on that talkgroup is re-routed.

As an example: A person on talkgroup 16 is based in Terre Haute. Scanner
listeners in Terre Haute are probably quite used to hearing talkgroup 16. 
But now, let's say that someone monitoring that talkgroup ventured to
Indianapolis (District 52) for a meeting. Scanner listeners monitoring
District 52 might think that they have found a new talkgroup! But
actually they have not. The talkgroup has always been there. The person
traveling to Indianapolis just caused it to move over to our system
temporarily.

Our county is on the same statewide system. I can go up to Lafayette, and
still chat with my dispatcher on the system. To the end user, this is
seamless. But since scanners do not interact with the system, the
difference is apparent. Scanner listeners would likely wonder about the
appearance of a "seemingly" new talkgroup.

In short, if you listen to the state systems on a regular basis, you might
want to consider combining all of the talkgroups into one listing. This
might make roaming users easier to identify.

Matt

Mark Meece said:
> This past week I spent 4 days camping
> at Whitewater State Park south of Liberty, IN.
>
> On the Trunkedradio Database site
> http://www.trunkedradio.net/
> under the State of Indiana they have a listing
> for a two site system for ISP District 55
> Connersville (New Castle and Peppertown).
>
>
> Using my 780 I can confirm that the Peppertown site (Franklin County) is
> active with ISP District 42 Versailles. I only logged two
> talkgroups in the four days, so it appears to me that only
> District 42 is active on this system. Connersville remains
> on 42.420, so I would think that the Peppertown site should be
> listed as ISP District 42 Versailles not District 55 Connersville.
>
> Here is what I confirmed:
>
> Site-002
> Peppertown
> WPUT643
> 859.7125
> 866.8625
> 867.3625
> 867.8750 * - Control Data Channel
>
> Talkgroups
>
> Decimal Description
>
> 24464 ISP District 42 Primary
> 24480 ISP District 42 Ops 1
>
>
> Can anyone shed any more light on how
> this system should be listed?
>
> Mark
> Franklin, Ohio
>
> --
> Mark Meece - N8ICW
> Radio Monitoring Hobbyist
>
>
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