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Found out today that they are using the Rainier site as the primary transmitter/receiver site, they have just gone back to identifying as "Kelso". The mobiles receive it much better when north of Kelso and dispatch doesn't have to put up with the interference from the Columbia Co. equipment located near them at Kalama. They still have equipment at the original location on China Garden Rd. above Kalama and will identify as "Kalama" when transmitting from that tower.

Whatcom, Skagit & Snohomish are still on their old analog systems as of this date.

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

You noticed that too huh? I wonder what the delay is...

Wenatchee was both analog and IWN this afternoon, FWIW.

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District 7 is still analog as of this date.

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2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Did WSP in King county stop patching to their VHF freqs in fdma?

Haven't been monitoring KC wsp for awhile...and my portable isn't picking anything up on VHF...

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Sounds like a district 7 channel is live on 700 MHz, suspect it's mostly still patched VHF traffic.

I didn't think district 7 was going with a 700 trunk system. Maybe added to district 2 talk group for crossover.?.

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Site 203 covers Snohomish County lowlands. It's been carrying the Dist 2 talkgroups (592xx) for months, now it's got 59709 with the Everett dispatcher.

Whatcom, Skagit WSP still analog. Bremerton is still analog also.

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1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Would give their King Co neighbors the ability to scan them without a second radio or having to leave their trunk group.

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Heard that it's P25 now Jim. Bremerton will be next. :)

HOT OFF THE PRESS !!!

WSP in Whatcom County on 154.755 & WSP in Skagit County on 155.505 have switched to P25 Phase 1 as of this date (D70).

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

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1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

So I drove over to spokane, and got some interesting WSP monitoring and figured out that I obviously had some gaps.

1) Kittitas was VERY active handling snoqualmie pass during the snow storm - it seems like they had all pass traffic incl. several miles into king county running on the kittitas freqs.

2) I was able to receive the digital 700 signals for king county just fine all the way across kittitas for sure, not sure if i got it statewide.

3) I clearly need to figure out/update the rest of the state's 700 systems, since they seem to be the most reliable for me (I expected the old VHF freqs to have me covered but didn't

4) I only got spokane area traffic on IWN. Looking at my scanner programming this morning to figure out what I did wrong.

First problem solved, I hadn't programmed my stuff as well as I thought. So at least now my conventionals are all right. Next, on to digital :-)