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Interesting to hear about your local and not so local systems
there Martin, thanks for sharing that information. Jim WA6EKS
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:30:21 -0500
>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
> Here in Stillwater, Oklahoma which has a population of
>about 45,000, all the public safety services are still
>conventional frequencies scattered over the 150-174 and 450-470
>bands. Oklahoma has a Motorola trunking system called OKWINS
>which is an acronym for Oklahoma Wireless Interoperability
>Networking System which is a mixture of P25 and analog talk
>groups. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is gradually migrating off
>of frequencies in the 30-50 MHZ band to the OKWINS system. Our
>local Highway Patrol district just cut over to 800 around August
>first so trunking is creeping in to our area but none of the
>local agencies are using it except to talk to other agencies.
> What I do so far is to set my BCD996 to scan all talk
>groups in the OKWINS system and then lock out the vast majority
>of talk groups so that one hardly hears anything. What you get
>out of that is to instantly tell when a new organization has
>opened up a talk group on the system so you know who is new.
> If it is interesting, I don't lock it out. One day, I
>will probably start scanning the OKWINS group for specific
>groups rather than picking up the whole thing and locking out
>those I don't want to hear.
> We also have a Johnson LTR system for commercial
>operations and I programmed that in using information from Radio
>Reference. It works fine, but I have my Linux system turn that
>system off during normal business hours because the main two
>talk groups are a cement company and a paratransit system which
>aren't exactly spell-binding to listen to.
> Oklahoma also has an analog trunking system called
>Passport which can not be tracked by your average scanner. It is
>run by our Department of Transportation. They were thinking
>about using it for emergency services, also, but the state has
>cut off funding for the system so I expect it to slowly die over
>the next few years. Not being able to track it on a scanner is
>no great loss since most of the traffic on there is road
>maintenance crews doing necessary but not terribly interesting
>stuff.
>Martin WB5AGZ
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