Socal nxdn on 575

[wqnd300]

Last year a repeater on Crestline in Southern California on 575 disappeared and shortly after I was contacted by someone stating they found a nxdx repeater on 575 and the people were speaking Spanish. I thought it had disappeared until today when I heard digital noise on the frequency and when I turned on my scanner the same nxdn repeater with someone speaking Spanish.

 

575 ran 33https://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/6431d747a3faf/received_762598138861211.mp4

 

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[Lscott]

36 minutes ago, wqnd300 said:

 

Last year a repeater on Crestline in Southern California on 575 disappeared and shortly after I was contacted by someone stating they found a nxdx repeater on 575 and the people were speaking Spanish. I thought it had disappeared until today when I heard digital noise on the frequency and when I turned on my scanner the same nxdn repeater with someone speaking Spanish.

 

575 ran 33https://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/6431d747a3faf/received_762598138861211.mp4

 

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How did you verify it was using NXDN? If I had to guess I would suspect it was either DMR or P25. Not too many people use NXDN although there are pockets of activity on the Ham bands with one major area being in west central Florida.

If that’s really the case it’s an obvious rule violation. There are NO official digital voice modes authorized for GMRS. I think even the single “experimental” DMR repeater with a special FCC license is no longer in operation out that way either.

[OffRoaderX]

Crestline-575 does sometimes run NXDN, and yah, it does break the rules - but as everyone knows, that doesn't matter because the FCC will never do anything.

[kc9pke]

6 hours ago, Lscott said:

I think even the single “experimental” DMR repeater with a special FCC license is no longer in operation out that way either.

Is it? They keep renewing the license and it's still active

[wqnd300]

How did you verify it was using NXDN? If I had to guess I would suspect it was either DMR or P25. Not too many people use NXDN although there are pockets of activity on the Ham bands with one major area being in west central Florida.
If that’s really the case it’s an obvious rule violation. There are NO official digital voice modes authorized for GMRS. I think even the single “experimental” DMR repeater with a special FCC license is no longer in operation out that way either.

Have the uniden 436hp scanner and was able to verify nxdn with a ran of 33.

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[Lscott]

1 hour ago, wqnd300 said:

Have the uniden 436hp scanner and was able to verify nxdn with a ran of 33.

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Then it's a verified rules violation. Question is will the FCC do anything about it? It's one thing to run digital voice simplex between mobile stations, makes tracking them down hard. It's far easier when the station is in a fixed location like a repeater.

[Lscott]

5 hours ago, kc9pke said:

Is it? They keep renewing the license and it's still active

I thought I read it wasn't. I guess I'll have to look it up on the FCC database. I had the info on the computer here for a while. I may have deleted it.

[Lscott]

6 hours ago, kc9pke said:

Is it? They keep renewing the license and it's still active

I did a quick search. The links I found are below. The one link shows the last experimental license, WK2XIK, applied for was in 5/9/2021 with a status of pending. It didn't show up in the FCC's database when I just checked. Maybe they were assigned a different call sign.

https://fcc.report/ELS/Northern-California-GMRS-Users-Group-NCGUG/0960-EX-ST-2016/178767.pdf

https://fcc.report/ELS/Northern-California-GMRS-Users-Group-NCGUG

https://fcc.report/company/Northern-California-GMRS-Users-Group-NCGUG