[TrunkCom] rebanding and an update with Grosse Pointe

[JERRY NONE]

What about 700 Megacycles in the Dominion OF Canada.
Are they moving too?


What is a SPLINTER FREQUENCY?


--- Jeff Kenyon <at649 at tcnet.org> wrote:
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> Well, this should be interesting, and will be a few
> years out still, and
> hopefully all that will need to be done is just
> reprogramming all the user
> units, but I would think that patching from band to
> band would be a
> concern since it isn't like patching trunked to
> conventional like they did
> when we made the cut over in 2001.  Also, it is
> because of Canada why we
> haven't gotten 700 MHz here in Michiga yet.
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> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Mike VanderVeer wrote:
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> > > So this makes them to be splinter systems with
> the Pro-96 then?
> > > Also, by the way there are no plans believe it
> or not to move the
> > > Grosse Poitne CC to 9600, so an older first
> generation digital
> > > scanner will work just fine with that system. 
> Also, the county
> > > hasn't installed anything in Grosse Pointe for
> the county, and as we
> > > talked about on the other list Detroit's move is
> taking it's time
> > > and there is no encryption for Grosse Pointe, at
> least not for now.
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> > Actually no, it will not become a splinter system,
> at least not for sure.
> > The bandplan for frequencies from 851 to 854 Mhz
> is changing to 12.5khz
> > steps.  The current bandplan goes in 25Khz steps. 
> The only real difference
> > between the current standard and splinter systems
> is the base frequency in
> > the band (851.0125 vs. 851.0250).
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> > With the new bandplan, depending on the negotiated
> treaty with Canada, all
> > channels with 12.5khz bandwidth will be used. 
> This will change the channel
> > to frequency map that is currently used on 3600bps
> control channels, which
> > will break most scanners that are out there.  This
> includes the Grosse Point
> > system.
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> > 9600bps systems like the MPSCS use a different
> channel to frequency map or
> > bandplan.  Those systems start at 851.00625 by
> default, with 6.25khz steps.
> > For this reason, 9600bps systems will work with
> all scanners that are capable
> > of working this these control channels.
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> > There is a belief that there will be a workaround
> for the Pro-96/Pro-2096
> > using tables to create the new band plan/Channel
> map.  We won't know for sure
> > though until the first 3600bps systems are
> rebanded.
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> > Mike
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