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Ok, for the folks in Vancouver WA or Portland.

I see that the BOEC system has several talkgroups for OSP, and they appear to have a reference to 154.935 & others.

17392 OSP 1 Oregon State Police Ch. 9 (154.935-Council Crest)
17424 OSP 2 Oregon State Police Ch. 12 (154.935-Skamania)
17648 OSP TAC 1 OSP TAC-1
17680 ODOT TAC 2 COMET TAC-2
18064 OSP 4 Oregon State Police Ch. 11 (159.090-Mt Hood)

Are these Talkgroups actually patched to the referenced VHF frequencies? Are they full time patched? Only part time patched? Patched on demand? Can trunking system users have unlimited access to the OSP radio system through these patches?

Brad/N7JGX
Whidbey Island, WA

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Hi, Brian...

The OSP talk groups are indeed patched to the VHF channels full time. Traffic on 154.935 MHz will appear on talk group 17392. I have not actually heard trafffic from the trunked system to the VHF repeater, but I have been told it works both ways. I was also told that the OSP units in the Portland area had 800 MHz HT's that they could use on the trunked system.

As far as trunked system users having access to the OSP system, they would only have access to those two or three VHF repeaters. And I never have heard who on the trunked system has access to the OSP talk groups besides OSP...

The ODOT talk group is not a patch. the ODOT units in the metro area use 800 MHz exclusivly. There are also two other ODOT talk groups I think, 17072 and 17168. None of those are patches. I can't confirm that 17008 is a patch to ODOT VHF, - never heard it active.

- Chris

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I hear an ODOT repeater on 154.100 in the Portland area as well as the other ones they use for Dist 2. 155.82 and others. I've only heard COMET units on the 800.
17168 seems to be the active one. Heard some traffic on 17012. I have OSP ch 9-12 TG programmed but have only heard one or 2 active.

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Great information, thanks. that is what I thought was happening, but wanted to be sure - from people who actually monitor down there.

Brad/N7JGX
Whidbey Island, WA

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The TG 17008 for 154.100 is up and used you can hear it in the Portland area, there was a lot of traffic on the tg 17008 (154.100) on the snow storm year or 2 back.