Chester Country Radio Problems

Of interest if you are a first responder in Chester County, PA: the 800-MHz radio system is currently experiencing problems (read: broken). While dispatches are still coming through on your VHF pagers (setting A/B/D) and can be monitored on 160.185 MHz, you will not hear response/command communications on the Central/East (159.600 MHz) or West (159.735 MHz) simulcast or on setting "C" on your Minitor pagers.

Fire response and command communications have been temporarily relocated to the Inter-Ops frequencies, which use conventional, rather than trunked repeaters, for your appropriate area:

• 866.5125 MHz - INTEROPS1
• 867.0125 MHz - INTEROPS2
• 867.5125 MHz - INTEROPS3
• 868.0125 MHz - INTEROPS4

I have opened these frequencies to the online scanner stream. Country radio has been running some tests on the system over the past few minutes so the outage will hopefully be a brief one.

Update: Chester County Radio is back in service at 1055.