Sunday, December 29, 2013

Verizon Center Moves to Capacity Plus, Enables Privacy

The Verizon Center is now using a three-frequency MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus system. The groups monitored (102, 109, 111) were using Privacy. The system also appears to have Restricted Access to System (RAS) turned on. This means that only authorized radios can transmit or receive on the system. (This does not affect the operation of DMRDecode or DSD, but there is nothing to monitor with DSD anyway because Privacy is enabled.)

The other 461 MHz frequencies previously in use are being used as MOTOTRBO conventional repeaters. All groups on these frequencies are also using Privacy:

461.0750 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 4, Slot 1, Group 101) (privacy)
461.0750 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 4, Slot 2, Group 105) (privacy)
461.1000 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 11)
461.1750 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 10)
461.5250 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 8, Slot 1, Group 103) (privacy)
461.5250 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 8, Slot 2, Group 104) (privacy)
461.6000 [         ] (MOTOTRBO - Color Code 9, Slot 2, Group 108) (privacy)

(461.1000 and 461.1750 did not have voice transmissions on them when I monitored, but I was able to obtain color codes from brief data transmissions.)

Security personnel appeared to be using XPR7550 radios.

The Verizon Center has an application pending for the Capacity Plus system; the rest of the frequencies are covered under an older license (which doesn't have emission designators for MOTOTRBO).

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