Utah Communications Agency Network (UCAN) System

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (13 MAR 2021)

The Utah Communications Agency Network (UCAN) and the Utah Communications Authority (UCA) will be decommissioning the current 800Mhz Motorola trunking system by the end of 2023. UCAN is the main Public Safety trunked system used throughout the state of Utah and is one of the largest systems in the nation. Over 100 Motorola Trunking sites will be shut down and replaced with an all-digital P25 system using 700Mhz. It will impact all Utah public safety and services agencies. After the change, a large body of the information on this site will be out of date.

THIS SITE WILL BE GOING AWAY AFTER THE TRANSITION IS COMPLETE (Q1 2024).

Your scanner or radios must support P25 digital and will need to be reprogrammed to continue to hear anything on the new system. The community isn't sure how much of the traffic will be encrypted after the switch. If regular channels are encrypted, it will become illegal to attempt to monitor that traffic. We can only hope that if the UCA chooses to do this, they will offer time-delayed or filtered streams of radio transmissions to the public. The public has a special interest in monitoring the activity and operations of public safety agencies. Recent documented abuses by law enforcement officers who have covered up activities or mistakes by abusing laws originally meant to protect victims are a prime example.

Please copy any information you want or need from this site prior to December, 2022. For additional details see the RadioReference Utah forum. An effort is underway to save some content on the RadioReference Utah wiki: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Utah_(US).

73 de N2OW,

-Ryan

About

System Name has Changed to: Utah Communications Authority

The Utah Communications Authority (UCA) is by far the largest public safety system in the state.
Most of the action in public safety occurs on this system. For more information, as well as broadcast sites near you, see the RRDB Database entry. For location information, see UCAN Location.

Rebanding

All sites were rebanded in 2008. For more details, read the article regarind what we found After Rebanding.

External Links

  • Official Site - Official web page for UCAN. Contains site photos and other interesting information about this important radio network.
  • VECC - Main dispatch organization on the UCAN system.
  • Mag Article - Article at 911 magazine containing interesting history and additional background details.
  • SIEC = Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee. SIEC is the legislative/governance body over UCAN and other interop radio sites.
    • Executive Order - Order setting up the Utah State Interoperability Executive Committee.
  • Site Map - Google map of UCAN sites at RR.
  • Proctor Interview - 2004 interview of Steve Proctor (UCAN director) by Urgent Communications.
  • UCAN's Oympic Begininings - Urgent Communicationis Article on the formation of UCAN
  • 2006 Article on Rebanding Urgent Communications Article on Rebanding

Additional Information

Exceptions

The following organizations have chosen to not participate fully in the UCAN system:

  • Murray PD
  • Salt Lake City (does share some talkgroups via Omnilink)

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