[ScanIndiana] Fort Wayne / Allen County Backup System

[Q101 News]

Turns out it was the old Allen County analog 800 system they went to.

It's now called the Allen County Govt. Services TRS. It has a number of talk
groups assigned to be back-ups to the Allen County/Fort Wayne Public Safety
TRS.

During normal times, the Govt. analog system (the former 800 Mhz Sheriff
system) is used by a few Govt agencies, like the Zoo, Parks Dept, Housing
Admin., etc.

What confused me is that I don't believe the Fort Wayne PD was ever on the
old county analog system. I think the city went straight from VHF to the
current digital system. So to the city, the "old" frequencies would be VHF,
not 800.

Would sure like to know why the communications technicians took the digital
public safety system down for a couple hours during the afternoon rush hour.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Payne [mailto:mattnik at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:33 PM
To: Indiana Scanning
Subject: Re: [ScanIndiana] Fort Wayne / Allen County Backup System

Didn't Ft. Wayne keep their old 800 MHz trunked system to use as a backup in
case the new one failed?  I seem to recall that the old system was being
used by city municipal (non public safety) agencies, but the old system
could be used by public safety as needed for backup.

          http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&sid=297

Matt


On 5/31/07, Ken Bandy <kbandy at iatse30.org> wrote:
> I doubt very seriously that their 800 MHz radios will dual band to 
> VHF, that's a pretty big split!  I would imagine they were being 
> assigned to a few "Mutual Aid" 800 MHz repeaters, such as the NPSAC, 
> or what ever the alphabet soup is for them.
>
> Ken
> KC9GLQ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Q101 News [mailto:news at thenewq101.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:04 PM
> To: 'Indiana Scanning'
> Subject: RE: [ScanIndiana] Fort Wayne / Allen County Backup System
>
>
> Really? Like 155.790 MHz for FWPD north dispatch? Wouldn't that mean 
> all the cars would have to have both an 800 Mhz radio and a VHF radio 
> in them? Or are the 800 MHz radios dual band? Before the system went 
> down, I heard people being advised to switch their radios to a 
> particular "zone" number and turn off their scanning feature, which 
> would imply that they're able to use the same radio for the backup system
that they use for the primary TRS.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RobertGrayless at Hotmail.com [mailto:RobertGrayless at Hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:45 PM
> To: 'Indiana Scanning'
> Subject: RE: [ScanIndiana] Fort Wayne / Allen County Backup System
>
> Their backup channels are the old channels they used before they went 
> to 800.
>
>
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