Over the years I've been asked about the DMR system inside the Barclays Center sports arena in Brooklyn. It's long been assumed to have a DMR trunked system. I finally had some time on my last event there to search and found some interesting tidbits.
First, I found a group of frequencies licensed for the Brooklyn Events Center, dba Barclays Center, WQZC420:
466.4625
466.5250
466.7000
468.3625
468.5500
468.6125
469.0875
469.5250
469.8875
I didn't hear any activity on these. Doing some snooping with the Airspy, I spotted a few active DMR peaks in the UHF band and listened to those. There is a distributed antenna system in the bowels of the building, as I could easily copy the NYPD and NYFD frequencies from the lower floors.
The active frequencies I found were DMR, but not trunked. I found 8 active DMR UHF frequencies with traffic definitely related to building operations and the event. All were using Color Code 1 and Talk Group 1. I'm still reviewing recordings to see what the actual channel and time slot use was.
451.7750
451.9125
452.0500
452.1500
452.2250
461.5625
463.5875 - CC1,TS1 = Building Security
463.7000
Oddly, I could find no license for all these for Barclays or Brooklyn Events Center. It's possible that they are licensed through a two-way service that provided the radios, but haven't found one that is common to all these frequencies.
- CP
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