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OFFICIAL TEN SIGNAL LISTS APCO states that the numbering, sequence, words or word phrasing of the below-listed signals may not be altered nor may the reserved signals be otherwise implemented except by APCO. Any user may employ signal numbers upward, beginning with 10-40, as needed for local dispatching. RCMA publishes this listing in support of APCO and their uniform dispatch code efforts. We will print other dispatch codes, different from the OFFICIAL APCO listing, only to assist our membership in furthering their monitoring hobby. We hope you find this listing useful. 10-1 Signal weak 10-2 Signal good 10-3 Stop transmitting 10-4 Affirmative (OK) 10-5 Relay (to) 10-6 Busy 10-7 Out of service 10-8 In service 10-9 Say again 10-10 Negative 10-11 ( ) on duty 10-12 Stand by (stop) 10-13 Existing conditions 10-14 Message/Information 10-15 Message delivered 10-16 Reply to message 10-17 Enroute 10-18 Urgent 10-18 (In) contact 10-20 Location 10-21 Call ( ) by phone 10-22 Disregard 10-23 Arrived at scene 10-24 Assignment completed 10-25 Report to (Meet) 10-26 Estimated time of arrival 10-27 License/Permit Info 10-28 Ownership Information 10-29 Records check 10-30 Danger/Caution 10-31 Pick up 10-32 ( ) units needed (Specify) 10-33 Help me quick 10-34 Time 10-35 - 10-39 reserved for future assignment by ACPO; user option 10-40 up þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY - SOUTH EAST Robert K. Cooke ù GEnie R.COOKE5 Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details, and questions as follows: Florida,Georgia, N. Carolina,S. Carolina, Virginia and W. Virginia: Welcome to the September edition of Public Safety Southeast. The material from our members has slowed down a bit. I still have some survey material to present for this month. I would like to hear of any frequencies that you monitored in your travels this summer. FLORIDA AE: Randy Kerr From: Anonymous Contributor Daytona Beach Police Dept. Signals & Codes Signals Incident/Activity 00.00 Armed 01.00 DWI 01.10 Breathylyzer 02.00 Drunkeness 02.10 Liquor Law 03.00 Accident (hit/run) 03.01 Accident (H & R w/Inj) 04.00 Accident (Vehicular) 04.01 Accident (Veh w/ Inj) 04.10 Accident (Non Veh) 04.20 Accident (Pedistrian) 04.21 Accident (Ped w/ Inj) 05.00 Homicide 06.00 Escaped Prisoner 07.00 Accidental Death 07.10 Natural Death 08.00 Missing Person 10.00 Auto Theft 10.20 Auto Theft (Recovered) 11.00 Misc Aband'd Vehicle 12.00 Traffic (Reckless Driving) 13.00 Suspicious Vehicle 13.10 Suspicious Incident 13.20 Suspicious Person 14.00 Police Infomation 15.00 Special Detail 15.10 Delivering Prisoners 16.00 Traf. (Destruct/D & V) 20.00 Sick Person (Mental) 21.00 B & E (Attempt) 21.10 B & E (Business) 21.20 B & E (Residence) 21.30 B & E (Motel) 21.40 B & E (School) 21.50 B & E (Church) 21.60 B & E (Safe ) 22.00 Disturbance 22.10 Disorderly Conduct 22.20 Off Against Family 22.30 Off Against Children 23.00 Ck Hitchiker/Ped/Sleeper 24.00 Robbery 24.10 Robbery (Strong Arm) 24.20 Robbery (Attempt) 24.30 Larceny (Purse Snatch) 25.00 Fire 25.10 Fire/Brush 25.20 Fire/Vehicle 25.30 Fire/Business 25.40 Fire/Other 25.50 Arson 27.00 Prowler 27.10 Trespassing 30.00 Misc(Bomb Threat) 31.00 Narcotics 32.00 Fraud (All Other) 32.10 Fraud (Worthless Checks) 32.20 Fraud Flim Flam 32.30 Forgery 32.40 Blackmail 32.50 Embezzlement 32.60 Extortion 33.00 Assault & Battery 33.10 A & B (Firearm) 33.20 A & B (Knife/Cut Instrum) 33.30 A & B (Oth. Danger Weap) 33.40 A & B (Hands/Feet) 34.00 Rape 34.10 Sex Offense 34.20 Prostitution 35.00 Larceny (Car Break) 36.00 Weapons Complaint 37.00 Suicide 37.100 Suicide Attempt 38.00 Gambling 39.00 Juvenille Complaint 40.00 Vandalism 40.10 Destr of City Prop 41.00 Obscene Phone Call 41.10 Misc (Threats) 42.00 Civil Complaint 43.00 Grand Larceny (Other) 43.10 Petty Larceny (Other) 43.20 Larceny (Auto Acc.) 43.30 Larceny (Bicycle) 43.40 Larceny (Boat/Boat Part.)43.50 Larceny (Fr Vend Mach.) 43.60 Larceny (Jewelry) 43.70 Larceny (Pocketpicking) 43.80 Larceny (Shoplifting) 43.90 Failure to Pay (All) 44.00 Kidnapping 45.00 Phone Call (All) 46.00 Meals 46.10 Rest Stop 46.20 Report Writing 46.30 Follow Up Invest. 46.40 Surveillance 47.00 At Station 47.10 Gassing 48.00 City Yards 48.10 Firing Range 48.20 K-9 Training 48.30 Training 49.00 Pick up Partner 50.00 Traffic/Stops 50.40 Traffic/All Others 70.00 Traffic (Signal Out/Off) 72.00 Traffic (Ill. Parking) 73.00 Traffic (Post/Dir Traffic74.00 Traffic/Radar 75.00 Bus Ck/Routine excpt Bars75.10 Res Ck/ Routine 75.20 Bar Ck/Routine 75.30 Ven. Ck/ Routine 75.50 Ck Abandoned Bldg. 76.00 Misc (Escort) 80.00 Towed Vehicle 81.00 Misc(Alarm Sounding) 81.10 Alarm Ck/Routine 83.00 Public Relations 83.10 Flag Down 83.20 Assist Elderly 84.00 Court 84.10 Assist legal Process 85.00 Found Property 85.10 Found Animal 85.20 Found Bicycle 85.30 Found Jewelry 86.00 Lost Property 86.10 Lost Animal 86.20 Lost Jewelry 87.00 Lost Child 87.10 Found Child 88.00 Noise Complaint 90.00 Animal Complaint 91.00 Animal Bite 92.00 Sick Person 93.00 Emergency Message 94.00 Pick Up 95.00 Solo (Person) 95.10 Solo (Vehicle) 96.00 Misc(Aircraft) 98.00 Dangerous Situation 99.00 Misc (Open Door) 99.90 Misc(All Other) GEORGIA AE: Steve Giovanis Steve has not received any contributions but has answered numerous queries from out of state members. Please send him any info that you might have learned while travelling throught Georgia. NORTH CAROLINA AE: Randy Whaley, From: Jeff (NC-101) Charlotte-Mecklenburg 800 Radio Frequencies and Their Use 856.2375 Phone Interconnect Only 857.2375 Phone Interconnect; Overload for Public Safety 858.2375 Public Safety 859.2375 Public Safety 860.2375 Public Safety 855.4875 Phone Interconnect Only 856.4875 Overload for Public Safety 857.4875 Overload for Public Safety 858.4875 Intermittent Carrier 859.4875 Public Safety Communications 860.4875 Unused 855.7375 Unused 856.7375 Overload for Public Safety 857.7375 Overload for Public Safety 858.7375 Used for "Control" 859.7375 Public Safety Communications 860.7375 Unused 855.9875 Overload for Public Safety communications 856.9875 Phone Interconnect 857.9875 Public Safety Comm Control 858.9875 Public Safety Communications 859.9875 Unused ; Interference from neighboring system 860.9875 Unused Charlotte Police Department 453 mhz frequencies: 453.300 Channel 1 453.500 Channel 2 453.700 Channel 3 These Channels simulcast 453.800 Channel 4 dispath modes on the 453.900 Channel 5 "800" system 453.950 Channel 6 Mecklenburg County Police 453 mhz frequencies : 453.450 Channel 7 Data Transmisssion on freq. 453.750 Channel 8 now being used by coliseum sec. 453.850 Channel 9 freq is now quiet Charlotte Fire Department 460 mhz Frequencies : 460.525 Channel 1 Used enroute to call 460.625 Channel 2 Used enroute to call 460.550 Channel 3 Used enroute to call 460.600 Channel 4 Used enroute to call 460.575 Channel 5 Fire Dispatch 465.625 Channel 6 Low power Fireground Some or possibly all of the communications on these channels are being simulcast on 800 mhz. Mecklenburg County Volunteer Fire Department frequencies: 156.165 Channel 1 Fire Dispatch 153.815 ? Repeater input to 156.165 154.280 Channel 3 Talk-around ; Mutual Aid Some of these transmissions are being simulcast on the 800 mhz system. SOUTH CAROLINA AE: Billy Estes No material was received but several inquiries, including some from our Canadian members, were received and answered. VIRGINIA AE: Alan Cole GEnie Mail: A.COLE1 Via Modem: ScanVirginia BBS 804-796-6828 Alas, we have no input again, but will give you a Hanover County profile with permission from the Virginia Monitoring Digest (VMD). For more information about VMD, write: John McColman, POB 34832, Richmond, VA 23234-0832. HANOVER COUNTY, VA 155.4300 [CSQ] Sheriff F1 156.0300 [CSQ] Sheriff F2 158.7600R [CSQ] Fire/Rescue F1 154.0100M [CSQ] Fire/Rescue F2 154.2950M [203.5] Fire Mutual Aid w/Henrico County 453.6000M [203.5] County jail 155.0100 [203.5] Ashland Town Police 155.8800 [203.5] Ashland Town Gov't HANOVER FIRE STATIONS 1 Ashland 2 Beaverdam 3 East Hanover 4 Doswell 5 Hanover Courthouse 6 Henry 7 Mechanicsville 8 Montpelier 9 (Rockville?) 10 Ledbetter (Hanover Airport) 11 Farrington 12 Black Creek Rescue squads are mentioned as 'pager numbers' when toned out. Dispatch was recently moved from 155.43 (Sheriff) to 158.76 (Fire). Each of the four squads also has a unique series of unit numbers. Agency frequencies are generally for squad business, and calls are not toned out here. SQUAD PAGER# UNIT #'s AGENCY FREQ Ashland 212 120's 155.295 [151.4] Ashcake 215 130's 155.265 [127.3] East Hanover 234 140's 155.265 [123.0] West Hanover 252 150's possibly same as Ashland Most if not all Sheriff's units are numbered below 100, with 100- 119(?) being the Ashland PD. Also, the County is in the process of building a six tower 800 MHz GE trunked system. They expect to be online by the end of 1991. The frequencies are 856-860.4625 and 856-860.7125. Below are some counties in the area immediately west of Hanover. 39.4600 [103.5] Louisa Co Sheriff dispatch 39.2800 [103.5] Louisa Co Sheriff (old) 39.3600 Louisa Co (nothing heard) 39.5000 Louisa Co (nothing heard) 39.5400 Louisa Co Sheriff (SIRS) 458.4000M [103.5] Louisa Co Sheriff (extenders) 155.8050R [173.8] Louisa Co Fire/Rescue F1 - dispatch 155.9550R [167.9] Louisa Co Fire/Rescue F2 - UVA MedComm 154.1150 [173.8] Louisa Co (school maintenance) 159.0900R [131.8] Fluvanna Co Sheriff dispatch (new) 155.8500M [131.8] Fluvanna Co Sheriff car/car (nothing heard) 39.2800 [103.5] Fluvanna Co Sheriff (old) 39.5000 Fluvanna Co (nothing heard) 39.5400 Fluvanna Co Sheriff (SIRS) 155.7450R [167.9] Fluvanna Co Fire/Rescue F1 155.9550R [167.9] Fluvanna Co Fire/Rescue (UVA MedComm) 39.7400 [100.0] Orange Co Sheriff dispatch 39.4200 [100.0] Orange Co Sheriff (old) 39.5000 nothing heard 39.5400 Orange Co Sheriff (SIRS) 33.8200 [CSQ] Orange Co Fire dispatch 152.0075P [123.0] Orange Co Rescue Squad 155.2350 [123.0] Orange Co Rescue Squad F2 158.7750R [192.8] Orange Co County gov't 155.3700R Orange Co Sheriff F1 (future) 155.6850R Orange Co Sheriff F2 (future) 155.8950R [192.8] Orange Co Fire F1 (future) 155.0550R [192.8] Orange Co Fire F2 (future) 39.7400 [100.0] Orange Town Police 453.4000R Town of Orange (not confirmed) 39.7400 [100.0] Gordonsville Town Police 158.7300R [203.5] Greene Co Sheriff 39.1800 [114.8] Greene Co Fire dispatch 155.9250R [203.5] Greene Co Rescue Squad dispatch 155.9550R [167.9] Greene Co Rescue Squad (UVA MedComm) 154.1000R [162.2] Goochland Co Sheriff 39.5400 Goochland Co Sheriff (SIRS) 155.9400R [110.9] Goochland Co Fire/Rescue dispatch In lieu of no input, the following news item is offered for you cellular phone listeners. As I write this column on June 19th, the FBI has advised a Virginia Republican Party official that his presence may be required at a federal grand jury hearing in Norfolk on the 21st. At issue is a taped cellular phone conversation of Gov. Douglas Wilder, monitored in the Hampton Roads area in 1988 as the then- Lieutanant Governor was riding in the back of a State Police car, gloating to a crony about negative publicity surrounding US Senator Charles Robb. Robb had admitted that his office was in posession of the tape for over two years, but that he had neither listened to it nor divulged its contents. (a transcript had been mysteriously leaked to and printed by the Washington Post) Robb insists that the tape was made by a hobbyist and sent to him anonymously. Not only is the Federal Government investigating, but the State Attorney General has expressed an interest in prosecuting the tape's originator under Virginia's wiretap law, which makes the interception of telephone calls a Class 6 Felony i.e. up to 5 years in prison. Robb's staff destroyed the tape before he publicly admitted possessing it, and no known copies exist. See you next month. WEST VIRGINIA AE: Neil McKinney (OH-250) From: James (WV-027) 155.4150 Barboursville Pol F-2 155.3850 Mason Cty E.M.S. 154.8450 Barboursville Pol F-1 155.9800 Mason Cty Intersystem 159.1500 Charleston P.D. 039.9600 Mason Cty Sheriff 046.0400 Elkins E.M.S. 039.5000 Pt Pleasant PD & FD 046.1000 Elkins Fire Dept. 039.9600 Randlolph Cty Sheriff 155.1300 Elkins Police 039.9800 Randolph Cty Intersys 155.3400 H.E.A.R. 155.7300 S. Charleston Police 045.2400 Huntington E.M.S. 155.0250 St Albans P.D. 154.2500 Huntington Fire Dept. 042.1000 WV St Police (Base) 155.2500 Huntington Police Dept. 042.2600 WV St Police (mobile) 155.2650 Kanawha Cty E.M.S. 155.4300 WV St Police (T-pike) 155.1450 Kanawha Cty Fire Dept. 046.1000 Wood Cty Fire Dept. 155.6250 Kanawha Cty Sheriff 154.2200 Wood Cty Fire Dept. 155.2050 Mason Cty E.M.S. 039.9200 Wood Cty Sheriff Well, this wraps up another edition of PSSE. We will be finishing up the survey material in the next two issues. I'm really pleased with the response from our members. Best of Monitoring PS-SE Columns Available on 5.24" & 3.5" Disk Available for any member who would like copies of PSSE on diskette: either 5.25" or 3.5" format of all columns edited during my tenure. I can save these in any format from WP 4.2 to 5.1, Prowrite and any other major wp form. Of course, ASCII files are always available. I can also provide files in PK ZIP 110 or other compression formats if needed. Please enclose a formatted 5.25" or 3.5" diskette and $1 for postage. þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY - NORTH EAST Gary Saffer Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details, and questions as follows: New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maine, Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia: Hello, and welcome to PSNE for September. We once again are lucky enough to have a whole pile of information this month and so I will not take up too much space here. I would just like to say that I will be finishing up the member surveys over the next couple of months since there are not too many left. CONNECTICUT AE: Stephen Repetto From Pete (CT-073) a list of CTCSS tones for police agencies in the State of Connecticut. To be able to include all of the tones I will not list the frequencies except when different frequencies have different tones. Amtrak 146.2 Ansonia 131.8 Avon 114.8 Bloomfield 162.2 Branford 186.2 Bridgeport 107.2 Brookfield 203.5 Cheshire 155.310 110.9 Cheshire 460.475 136.5 Clinton 77.0 Connecticut State of 151.355 114.8 154.6425 203.5 154.6575 203.5 154.665 141.3 154.6875 203.5 154.695 141.3 154.7025 203.5 154.8300 141.3 154.860 114.8 156.210R 141.3 159.150 141.3 453.400R 167.9 Coventry 45.140 141.3 Coventry 453.5625 127.3 Danbury 110.9 East Hampton 162.2 East Hartford 114.8 East Haven 192.8 East Windsor 114.8 Enfield 114.8 Fairfield 179.9 Farmington 151.4 Granby 114.8 Greenwich 107.2 Groton (City) 156.7 Groton (Town) 151.4 Guilford 110.9 Hamden 114.8 Hartford 114.8 Ledyard 127.3 Madison 110.9 Manchester 114.8 Meriden 103.5 Middletown 114.8 Milford 179.9 New Haven 110.9 New London 151.4 New Milford 167.9 Newington 114.8 North Branford 151.4 North Haven 94.8 Norwalk 110.9 Norwich (Low Band) 156.7 Norwich 155.550 136.5 Old Saybrook 179.9 Plainfield 103.5 Putnam 141.3 Rocky Hill 453.925 114.8 Rocky Hill 453.750 118.8 Stonington 45.980 118.8 Stratford 114.8 Tolland 156.7 Vernon 100.0 Wallingford 110.9 Waterbury 114.8 Waterford 151.4 West Haven 141.3 Wethersfield 114.8 Willimantic 162.2 Winchester 162.2 Windsor Locks 179.9 Windsor 114.8 Yale University 173.8 Area Hotline Eastern Ct 45.860 123.0 Hartford Area 45.860 136.5 RAFS 1 Hotline 460.075 114.8 RAFS 2 Hotline 460.175 114.8 SCAN Hotline 460.150 110.9 Fairfield County154.10 151.4 That's all the room for this month. Next month the Hartford Police codes and, if there is room, the Middletown/Cromwell Police 10 codes. DELAWARE AE: Joseph Buday Delaware's three counties all use the same fire frequency as F-1, the dispatch frequency of 33.780. The following list does not list Fire Co. names unless they also use other frequencies for paging or relay. NEW CASTLE COUNTY KENT COUNTY 33.780 F-1 Statewide Dsp 33.780 F-1 Statewide Dsp 33.940 F-2 Fireground 33.820 F-2 Fireground 33.680 F-3 Fireground SUSSEX COUNTY (also Fire Marls) 33.780 F-1 Statewide Dispatch 33.580 F-4 Fireground 33.860 F-2 Fire Ground OTHER FREQUENCIES USED 154.340 Port Penn Fire Co. 154.370, 154.445 Robbins Hose Co. 154.400, 154.430 Blades Fire Co. 453.250 Rehoboth rebroadcst of 33.78 453.300, 453.650 Rehoboth tac 453.900 Elsmere Fire Company 460.575 Cranston Hgts Fire Co. 460.625 Cranston Hgts Fire Company 460.600 Talleyville 154.965 Wilmington Fire Company Proposed New Castle County Fire Frequencies: 856-860.4375 Next month I will continue Delaware Fire with a listing of Fire Station numbers. Keep those cards and letters coming. Come on gang, I know we have only 20 some odd members in Delaware, but I'm sure people in Southeastern PA, South Jersey, and Maryland listen to DE. We have friends in different fire companies and so on who can give us information. Please, this is your column, send input. To date I have only received information from a member in Wisconsin. I have a rather extensive DE listing, but some of it is old or little used frequencies that I don't catch on my travels. Therefore I am not sure that they are in use. I need your help. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AE: Ken Fowler From a member frequency survey. 495.4375 DC Parking Enfor. F-1 495.4625 DC Parking Enfor. F-2 497.3375 DC Parking Enfor. F-3 497.9625 DC Parking Enfo. F-4 451.075 Pepco Power Company 154.515 Washington Post Secrty 156.850 DC Police Marine Patrol DC Police boats have marine channels with the call sign of KUF- 703. DC Fire boats use the VHF channels as well as the new DC EMS 800 MHZ system. MAINE AE Position Open MARYLAND AE: WilIiam Staubs From John (MD-??) a profile of Cecil County. North East, Perryville, Rising Sun and Chesapeake City have police departments that are dispatched by both Maryland State Police in North East and the Cecil County Sheriff Office. Sheriff Department Local Government 39.460 39.90 Common 39.900 F-2 Secondary shared with county government 39.940 F-1 Dispatch 46.540 Civil Defense 154.815 Mobiles County Fire & Rescue 453.150 County Detention Ctr 46.180 F-1 Dispatch Sheriff units ID with 43xx prefix 46.240 Elkton 46.400 F-3 Fireground 154.830 F-2 PD Secondary 46.540 F-2 Tone Alert 155.790 F-3 Loc Govt PD Tac. 153.830 Fire Police 155.790 F-1 Police Dsp 462/467.975 MED Call 2 453.450 Housing Authority 463/468.100 Paramedics w Union Hosp F-2 & F-1 are often simulcast North East 37.100 Local Government Rising Sun 39.740 Local Government Perry Point V.A. Hospital 164.350 Security, Fire Chesapeake & Delaware Cnl State Highway Administration 156.650 47.140 F-4 Elkton, Nottingham, 163.00 Cecilton Maryland Toll Facilities 151.040 Kennedy Highway 47.320 F-1 State wide 156.045 Kennedy Hwy Maint. State Police 453.975 Hatam Memorial Bridge 39.100 F-1 Statewide State Agencies 39.240 F-8 Perryville, Barrack M 31.340 F-1 Fish and Game (repeated on 151.040 and 156.045) 31.460 F-2 Fish and Game 39.260 F-2 Mutual Aid 31.580 Game Commission 39.400 F-12 North East, Barrack F 31.860 Game Commission 39.840 Licensed to Conowingo, 39.220 Marine Police - Perryville, and North East 151.205R Dept of Natural Res. 44.740 Medevac Helicopter Dispatch 151.355 DNR Forestry 47.660 Medevac Helicopter Medical 151.415 DNR Parks 155.190 Mobiles 155.775 Dist Court Elkton 155.730 High Band Repeater 44.90 852.8125, 852.8625, 852.9625, 853.0375 159.240 Game Wardens 853.2375, 853.3125, 853.4625, 853.5625 159.450 853.6625, 853.7375, 853.8625, 853.9125 463.175 Rising Sun 854.0375, 854.1125, 854.3375, 854.4625 854.5625, 854.6625, 854.7125 County Fire Stations 1 Cecilton 5 Charlestown 11 Perry Pt VA Hosp 2 Chesapeake City 6 Perryville 13 Elkton, Newark R 3 (closed) 7 Port Deposit 14 Kenmore 4 North East 8 Rising Sun Station 3 will be rebuilt at Pulaski Highway and White Hall Road in Elkton. There is a station 9 in Hacks Point but I have never heard it dispatched. Station 11 is dispatched on 164.350 Cecil County operates 3 ALS Medic units, numbered Medic 1, Medic 2, and Medic 3. Medic 1 is housed in Colora and Medic 3 is housed at the sheriff HQ in Elkton. Thanks for the information John. MASSACHUSETTS AE: Gary Saffer As of July 1st Brewster Ambulance Service has taken over the dispatch of Boston Med Flight. Although most dispatch is done by a combination of pager and telephone they may be heard on the Brewster Ambulance Dispatch frequency of 155.175 tone 91.8. Brewster has left the 800 Mhz trunked system that they had been using for the past few years. Problems with coverage of the system reportedly lead to the change. The new transmitter is reported to be located on a building in downtown Boston and has a great signal well down into Rhode Island and up to parts of New Hampshire. Brewster also provides the ground transport from landing sites to the hospitals for Med Flight within the Boston area. NEW BEDFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT FREQUENCIES 482.5875 Ch 1 Main Dispatch 482.9125 Ch 2 Alternate Dispatch, Car to Car 482.3875S Ch 3 Bristol County Regional Simplex Tone for all is 203.5 UNITS 10-19 Downtown MC xx Motor Cycles 20-29 South End DX xx Detectives 30-39 North End Route xx Walking Beats (Days Only) Medic 1 Downtown South End (7:00 to 19:00 only) Medic 2 Downtown South End Medic 3 North End Paramedic 1 St Lukes Hospital ALS PSxx Parking Supervisors Units 10,20,30 are Sergeants Medic Units are Ambulances with either EMT-A or EMT-I staffing. NBEMS is a separate system dispatched by the PD on PD frequencies. Paramedic 1 is an ALS non-transporting unit which responds in and around New Bedford. Dispatched on 462.950, but is often heard on NBPD Ch. 1. CODES Dispatch Disposition 4507 Out of Service 4601 Report 4510 Fight in Progress 4602 Arrest No Report 4514 Prowler 4603 Arrest and Report 4515 Disturbance (Type) 4604 Assisted 4516 Domestic 4605 Suppressed 4517 Meet Complainant 4605 Further Investigation 4518 Stolen Auto 4607 Civil Case 4519 Report to Station 4608 Gone on Arrival 4520 Location 4609 Unfounded 4521 Call Station 4610 Settled Between Operators 4523 Arrived 4611 False Alarm (Not Fire) 4531 Crime in Progress 4612 False Fire Alarm (Report) 4533 Emergency 4613 Warned 4543 Information Wanted 4614 Delivered 4546 Assist/Check Motorist 4615 Unable to Deliver 4550 Motor Vehicle Accident 4616 In Service Available 4551 Send Wrecker 4617 Valid Alarm 4552 Send/Assist Ambulance 4618 Directed Patrol Ended 4555 Drunk Driver OTHER CODES 4556 Drunk Disturbing 10-4 Okay 4564 Deliver Message 10-100 All Units Message 4570 Fire Alarm Code 1 Emergency Clear the Air 4578 Need Assistance Code 2 Return to Normal 4580 Investigate Break Code 3 Officer in Trouble 4590 Burglary Alarm Code 4 Use Caut Subject may be armed 4595 Bomb Scare 4599 Send Wagon NEW HAMPSHIRE AE: John R. Bolduc Twin State Fire Mutual Aid Twin State Fire Mutual Aid consists of several towns in Grafton County N.H., and a few towns in the Vermont counties of Calendonia and Orange. The dispatch frequency is 154.400 with a P/L of 136.5. Littleton FD uses a repeater on 453.05 for operations after dispatch on high band. An unconfirmed and seldom referenced fireground channel may exist on 154.295. The Twin State signal can be heard in deep southern N.H. more often than not on a outside antenna. This allows for some home base info gathering. Certain details were obtained while vacationing in the area. A scanner and a VOX recorder allowed me to scan the area without annoying my wife Debbie. However, since I can't hear everything from here, nor vacation as often as I please, I would greatly appreciate updates, and corrections. Data from northern N.H., including Conway would be appreciated. Town St T# Town St T# Bath NH 1 Landaff NH 4 Lisbon NH 5 Sugar Hill NH 6 Monroe NH 7 Groton/Ryegate VT 8 Newbury VT 9 Piermont NH 10 Littleton NH 11 Franconia NH 13 Easton NH 14 Haverhill NH 40 N Haverhill VilNH 50 Woodsville Vil NH 60 Barnet VT ? Bradford VT ? Carroll/Twin Mtn.NH ? Peacham VT ? NEW JERSEY AE: Richard D. Prail "Unsolved Mystery" At 18:00 hours daily I am now monitoring what appears to be a test of the Harrison Fire Department on 46.480. My listings of Harrison for N.J. and N.Y. do not include 46.480. 46.480 is the frequency of the volunteer fire service in Parsippany NJ. Does anyone have any information on this matter? NEW YORK CITY AE: Phil Caruama As promised last month, here is the member profile for Yonkers, New York from Jack (NY-359) YONKERS POLICE DEPARTMENT FREQ. CH. # USE 453.475 F-1 Inquiry 453.275 F-2 Dispatch 453.925 F-3 155.310 County Hot Line 155.370 Statewide Intersystem 159.150 New License mobile only IDs ASSIGNMENTS Cars 10-70 Supervisors, Narcotics, Youth Services etc. 100 series 4th Precinct 200 series 3rd Precinct 300 series ??? 400 series Crime Prevention 500 series 1st Precinct 600 series 2nd Precinct 800 series Traffic Division and Parking Enforcement 900 series Emergency Services David Detectives Sam Sergeants Lincoln Lieutenant Medic 1 (nontransporting) and Ambulances 1, 2, 3 Note: Some of these may have changed since a new Police Commissioner has been hired. CLEARING CODES 10 CODES 01 Offense/Incident Report 10-1 Call your command 02 Accident Report Taken 10-2 Proceed to your command 03 No Report needed 10-3 Call Dispatcher 04 Advice Given 10-4 OK 05 Assisted 10-5 Repeat Message 06 Canceled by Radio 10-6 Out of Service (Location) 07 Turned over to _______ 10-7 Out of Service on Assignment 08 Complied w/resumed Ptrl 10-8 Resuming Patrol 09 Gone on Arrival 10-9 See Complainant 11 Unfounded 10-10 Assist Patrol 12 Unable to Locate 10-11 Alarm of Fire 13 False Burglary Alarm 10-12 Motor Vehicle Accident No PI 14 Arst Mde/No Offnse Rpt 10-13 Motor Vehicle Accident PI 15 Court Action Advised 10-14A DOA 16 Refused to Prosecute 10-14B Mental Patient 17 Summons Issued 10-15 Reported Entry 18 Auto Towed 10-16 Stolen Car Rptd or Recovered 19 Information Recorded 10-17 Disorder 20 Notification Made 10-18 Alarm Ringing 21 Other 10-19 Traffic Violation 10-20 Report of Felony 10-21 Arrest for Felony Occupants of Auto Dangerous - Use Caution 10-22 Investigate Occupants of Car 10-23 Situation Under Control 10-24 Bomb Threat 10-25 Unit on Scene 10-26 Money Escort/Detail 10-27 Meal 10-30 Warrant or Info Request A) Felony Warrant on File B) Misc. Warrant on File C) Mtr Vehicle Warrnt on File NEW YORK STATE AE: Joe Nooney From Mark - NY ??, some information on the new Nassua County 800 MHZ Trunked system. The system seems to have been paid for by the Federal Government under a program to update county local government communications. The system is not fully operational yet, but the current frequency plan appears to be as follows. 866.3375, 866.5875, 866.9125, 868.4250, 868.5625 Agencies that are now on the system include. County Executive, Board of Supervisors, Department of Public Works, Department of General Services, Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority, Fire Commission (Fire Marshal and HazMat), Department of Health. The Sheriff's Department, Correctional Center, and County Medical Center are on 866.8375 and 867.1625. Low powered repeaters are in use on these two frequencies. Control channels are currently 866.1875 and 867.1125. It is expected that other county agencies will join the system including Department of Recreation and Parks. It is also probable that as more Departments join the system more channels will be activated. Also in Nassua County several of the volunteer fire departments have equipped their Chief (00) and/or First Deputy Chief (01) vehicles with Cellular Phones, primarily for Emergency Management Communications. Some departments have also equipped their 01 and 02 vehicles with 153.830 "fireground". PENNSYLVANIA AE: Otto Schellin Jr A member profile from Michael (PA-???) for the Horsham, PA Police Department. HORSHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT 506.3125 CODES 10-4 OK 10-28 Vehicle Information 10-7 Out of Service 10-29 Records Check 10-8 In Service 10-36 Time 10-9 Repeat 10-38 Vehicle Stop 10-10 Fight 10-46 Disabled Vehicle 10-11 Loose Dog 10-50 Accident 10-16 Domestic 10-55 Drunk Driver 10-17 Meet _______ 10-59 Transport 10-20 Location 10-70 Fire 10-21 Phone 10-86 Bomb Threat 10-22 Cancel 10-90 Alarm 10-23 On Location 10-99 Warrants 10-24 Assignmnt Compltd 6308 Underage Drinking 10-25 Meet 05 Burglary 10-27 Driver Information 03 Homicide Other Area Frequencies of Interest 154.310 E. Montgomery Cty FD 500.9375 Hatboro PD 460.050 Upper Moreland PD 460.025 Abington PD 501.7125 Warminster PD 460.550 Upper Dublin PD 46.040 Montgomery Cty Amb 155.610 Montgomery PD 46.100 Bucks Cty Fire & Amb 453.750 Philadelphia Co-wide Pol. 453.950 N.E. Philadelphia Police Dsp RHODE ISLAND AE: George Zabel III Newport County area Public Safety Frequencies 177.730R Newport PD Ch 1 154.845 Portsmouth Police 155.685R Co. Police Network 155.415R Tiverton/Ltle Compton PDs 46.480 Newport Fire Ch 2 155.070 Jamestown Police 155.790 Middletown Police 153.950 Jamestown Fire 46.06 Nwprt Cty Fire League 46.10 Middletown Fire 46.200 Tiverton Fire VERMONT AE: Dan Gilman No Input this month. Well, that's all the room we have; see you next month. þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY -GREAT LAKES Ron Kosinski (IL-310) Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details, and questions as follows - Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, and Ohio: Welcome to this month's column. Labor Day weekend is at hand time for those last summer trips before Fall. Be sure to keep your scanner tuned to those state and county PD frequencies. They will be busy! Now, on to this month's offerings. OHIO AE: Neil McKinney Thanks to Jim, OH-237, who was the only Ohio member who had time to send us a scoop this month. 155.730 Fostoria PD (part time scrambling) 155.100 Seneca County Sheriff 151.955 Heidelberg College security 460.575 Fostoria Fire department Let's hear from some Ohio members!! INDIANA AE: David Nugent Input for the column has been as scarce as the raindrops. Indiana State Police's 800 trunked system should come on line next in the Terre Haute area. It was placed up for bidding on May 3, 1991 and bidders have 30 days to reply. Word is that GE and Motorola are submitting bids for the project. Part of the funding for this system will be provided by Uncle Sam. The Newport Army facility located in the district required some new communications equipment so it appears that ISP, Vermillion County and Parke County will join the Army in this endeavor. Vigo County Sheriff's Department has installed 2 new Motorola Centra Comm II consoles. Frequencies are 155.565 output and 158.910 input. That's all for this month from Indiana. ILLINOIS AE: Ted Moran Here's an update on the Chicago PD's citywide frequencies from our member "on the inside": 460.125 citywide 1: Major auto accident and traffic details, Lincoln units, Public housing and transportation, special events and special Summer mobile units, Central detention and gang crimes, mail room, communication units and Municipal investigations. PL = 6a 460.175 citywide 2: Detectives and Canine units, Deputies, labor detail, community service, mounted police units, Central auto theft, Internal Affairs, Vice control, Narcotics, crime lab, Intelligence, training division. Pl = 3z 460.275 citywide 3: Emergency "wanted" messages, film unit, maintenance requests, repairs and Admin. messages. PL = 4a 460.325 citywide 4: Human Relations, school units, Inspectors, Youth division, Marine units. PL = 7a 460.350 citywide 5: Emergencies, Subway "L" units. PL = ZB 460.250 citywide 6: Emergencies, Surveillance. PL = 5b 460.300 citywide 7: Command channel, Phone patch, pagers and beepers. Future district to district coordination. PL = 3b 460.525 citywide 8: Car to car tactical channel, low power A local member has notified us that those fine fellows who "install" the Denver boot on vehicles belonging to those with no respect for Chicago parking regulations can be heard on 453.825, pl unknown. MICHIGAN No input this month AE: Paul Stachowiak KENTUCKY no input this month AE: William Gourley WISCONSIN AE: Scott Miller County profile for this month: Barron County Sheriff's radio plan 155.775 88.5 F1? repeater 155.370 cs F3? pt to pt 155.775 88.5 F2? talkaround 155.475 cs F4? WISPERN Fire radio plan 151.235 118.8 F1 Rice Lake 154.310 141.3 F5 fireground 151.235 141.3 F2 Barron rptr 154.205 118.8 F6 Rusk Co fire 151.235 91.5 F3 Prairie Farm 155.100 151.4 F7 Washburn Co 154.295 cs F4 Firecom 155.340 91.5 F8 EMS Other freqs 033.020 cs Lakeland PW 155.145 146.2 Chetek 033.060 cs Almena PW 155.145 ? Vance Creek 033.100 cs Maple Plain PW 155.175 Chetek Rescue 154.040 Barron 155.880 Rice Lake DPW 154.070 Bear Lake fire 156.195 088.5 Oak Grove DPW 154.160 Turtle Lake fd 158.820 Turtle Lake LG 154.115 Rice Lake PW 158.120 Highway repeater 154.785 118.8 Rice Lake PD 159.615 School Districts 155.145 Prairie Farm 453.875 D125 Dovre DPW Thanks to all the Wisconsin members who contributed! Here's an updated listing for Milwaukee PD from WI-12 & WI-46: 460.075 141.3 F1 dist 2,5 460.225 141.3 F2 dist 4,7 460.350 141.3 F3 dist 3,6 460.450 141.3 F4 dist 2,4,6 460.150 141.3 F5 Sp events/tac 460.025 141.3 F6 towing desk 460.375 179.9 F7 Detectives 460.475 179.9 F8 Detectives 460.175 179.9 F9 car to car 460.300 179.9 F10 car to car 460.425 179.9 F11 car to car 460.200 141.3 F12 Sp events 460.275 103.5 C I D 155.640 127.3 Tactical 155.805 Radio Techs 453.400 cs paging 156.135 Tac portables 156.150 portables 158.850 Youth Aid 158.910 Vice 159.150 Youth Aid* 460.500 131.8 Vice *There are plans for this frequency for fire department operations in the future. More on this later. SEE YOU NEXT MONTH IN WISCONSIN!! Well, that's all folks! Input was scarce this month. I'm sure most of you have heard a new frequency or can verify one or two that you've already seen in print. 'Wasn't too long ago folks were saying PSGL was one of the best columns in the Journal. Let's not let that slip away!! Till next month . . . H A P P Y M O N I T O R I N G ! ! Ron K. Il 310 þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY - SOUTH CENTRAL Send Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details and questions for Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee to the appropriate State Editor or to: Ed Lentz ù GEnie - ELENTZ ù ALABAMA AE: David Beck Not much to report from the state of Alabama this month. I need to hear from you Alabama members. Look over your local frequency lists and send me a copy. From AL-? comes the following: 151.010 State Hwy Construction (Flagging) 151.050 State Highway Dept. (Main Freq.) 151.160 Center Point Fire & Rescue 151.235 Adamsville Police 151.430 State Parks 151.370 City of Fultondale (Use Unknown) 154.585 Stakeout (Unknown agency) 159.060 Birmingham Street Dept. 159.105 Birmingham Traffic Engr. Dept 453.150 Birmingham Airport Authority 453.8125 State Dept. of Corrections 143.210 Stakeout (Unknown agency Birmingham Area) (Nope, this is the correct frequency) Hope to see everyone in Knoxville in October. ARKANSAS AE: Peter Laws EXTRA! EXTRA! NW Arkansas gets EMS Helicopter! Springdale Memorial Hospital is host to a Medical helicopter owned by a Missouri firm. The company, Air Evac, of West Plains, MO, plans to offer subscriptions to local area residents. Non-subscribers would be billed for the service as with a ground Ambulance. The copter will be staffed with a Paramedic and a Nurse, as well as a pilot. The company also has aircraft in West Plains and Cape Girardeau, MO. Sorry, no freqs yet! Back to school already!! Hope everybody had a good Summer. By the time you read this I expect that ASP Troop L will be on the 800 MHz system. I can hear occasional tests as I write this (June 30). Harrison's barracks seem to be using the system all the time. Data is always on 860.xxxx, voice on 859.xxxx, and phone patch on 858.xxxx. I believe this is similar Statewide. The various transmitter sites are connected to Little Rock via microwave links in the 1.8 to 2.2 GHz range. The same frequencies are being looked at by several large electronics firms, Apple Computer among them, for use by a new generation of cellular-type phones. The band is currently reserved for Public Safety use. The FCC is studying the proposal, and our State Police, as well as Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), plan to oppose the reallocation. The state estimates added costs of up to $100 million (!!) if the change goes through. This month's list has information from Larry AR-033, and a member who wished to remain anonymous. J.B., AR-032's submission will be in next month's issue. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Ten Codes CODE MEANING 10- 1 Receiving Poorly 10- 2 Receiving Well 10- 3 Stop Transmitting 10- 4 OK 10- 5 Relay 10- 6 Busy 10- 7 Out Of Service 10- 8 In Service 10- 9 Repeat 10-10 Out Of Service Subject to call 10-11 Dispatching Too Rapidly 10-12 Officials/Visitors Present 10-13 Weather Conditions 10-14 Convoy/Escort 10-15 Prisoner 10-16 Package 10-17 Papers/Letters 10-19 Destination 10-20 Location 10-21 Call by Telephone 10-22 Disregard/Cancel 10-23 Stand By 10-25 Contact... 10-28 Check Registration 10-29 Check Wanted 10-30 Doesn't Conform to Rules/Regs 10-33 EMERGENCY Traffic 10-35 Confidential Info 10-36 Correct Time 10-37 Who is Operator on Duty 10-42 Home 10-49 Traffic Check 10-50 No Traffic 10-63 Net Directed 10-64 Net Clear 10-88 Time and Phone # Where...Can be Called 10-97 Arrived @ Scene 10-98 Finished w/last Assignment 10-99 Can't rec. your Signal (ED: Since it works out better with the size of the Journal, I've moved the frequency list to the end of the column.) MISSISSIPPI AE: Will McGilvray Mississippi monitors were in the slow scan mode this month. Frequencies and questions were sent to the Commercial Communications editor concerning the 800 MHz band. OKLAHOMA no input this month AE: Jay D. Kruckenberg TENNESSEE AE: Curtis Harbin Received a nice long frequency list from Frank TN-067 for the Memphis Tennessee area. Thanks for keeping things current Frank. Since it seems to work better, I'm putting the list at the end of the column. TEXAS AE: Robert Barker Received a nice list of frequencies from Billy TX-266 for the Fort Worth/Dallas area several months ago. Finally have a chance to use them. The Metroplex is a large area and we get very few contributions from that area and can use all we get. LOUISIANA AE: Position Open STATE OF: ARKANSAS COUNTY OF: ?? City Agency/User Base/Mobile Comments Arch St. VFD 154.3550/ Shannon Hills FD 154.1600/ Shannon Hills PD 453.8750/ County: Faulkner Conway PD 154.8750/ Conway PD 155.4900/ County Fire 154.3250/ "West" County VFD 154.3850/ Jacksonville FD 154.4000/ Jacksonville PD 155.3700/ Little Rock Baptist Med. Ctr.ALL MED.CH. Little Rock Emer. Svcs 453.8750/ Little Rock M.E.M.S. 462.9750/467.9750 Little Rock M.E.M.S. 462.9500/467.9500 Little Rock PD 453.1500/458.1500 primary Little Rock PD 453.2000/458.2000 secondary Little Rock PD 453.3000/458.3000 Vice Little Rock PD 453.4000/ talk-around N.Little Rock PD 453.2250/ County: Saline Benton PD 155.0500/ TalkAround Benton PD 155.6400/ TalkAround County SO 37.3600/ County: State All Hospital Net 155.2350/ =================================================== Agency City CH RPT Out RPT In Used By/For STATE OF: ARKANSAS COUNTY OF: Crittenden EMS West Memphis 155.1000/ Fire Dept West Memphis 154.1750/ Police Dept West Memphis 154.6500/ Police Dept West Memphis 155.5500/ STATE OF: MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF: Desoto Burger King Southaven 457.5500/ EMS Southaven 460.6000/ Fire Dept Horn Lake 154.4450/ Fire Dept Southaven 465.5750/ Mc Donalds Southaven 35.0200/ Police Dept Horn Lake 155.3100/ Police Dept Southaven 153.7550/ Police Dept Southaven 154.0850/ Police Dept Southaven 155.4750/ COUNTY OF: State Law Enforcement 155.4900/ St-wide Pol Net STATE OF: TEXAS COUNTY OF: Collin Police Dept Allen 154.8300 Police Dept Mc Kinney 154.8300 Police Dept Plano 1, 2 453.2750 COUNTY OF: Dallas Careflight Dallas 131.4500 Careflight Dallas 131.6750 Police Dept Dallas 1 460.3250 465.3250 Ctrl & East Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 2 460.3750 465.3750 North East Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 3 460.5000 465.5000 South East Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 4 460.4250 465.4250 Southwest Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 5 460.0750 465.0750 Northwest Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 6 460.1750 465.1750 North Cntrl Ptrl Police Dept Dallas 7 460.2750 465.2750 Traffic Police Dept Dallas 8 460.1250 465.1250 Tactical Police Dept Dallas 9 460.0250 465.0250 NCIC Checks Police Dept Dallas 10 460.2250 460.2250 Car To Car Police Dept Dallas 11 460.4750 465.4750 CID/investig Police Dept Dallas 12 460.4000 465.4000 Special Ops Police Dept Farmers Branch 453.9500 Police Dept Grand Praire 155.9100 Police Dept Rowlette 154.0550 Police Dept Seagoville 155.4900 COUNTY OF: Denton Skywarn County 146.9200 COUNTY OF: Hunt Police Dept Greenville 155.4900 COUNTY OF: Johnson EMS County 854.2125 Police Dept Burleson 1 453.1000 Police Dept Burleson 2 453.2750 Police Dept Burleson 3 451.2750 Police Dept Keene 154.0550 COUNTY OF: Tarrant Carswell AFB Ft Worth 150.2250 Military Police Carswell AFB Ft Worth 163.5850 Security Police EMS Fort Worth 45.9600 Goldstar EMS Fort Worth 46.0400 Goldstar EMS Fort Worth 155.3400 Daniels EMS Fort Worth 460.9250 Medstar Dsp Fire Dept Fort Worth A1 460.6750 465.6750Paging Fire Dept Fort Worth A2 460.5500 465.5500 Fire Dept Fort Worth A3 460.6000 465.6000Alarm Sec Ops Fire Dept Fort Worth A4 460.6250 465.6250Paging Fire Dept Fort Worth B1 856.4375 811.4375Dispatch Fire Dept Fort Worth B2 857.4375 812.4375 Fire Dept Fort Worth B3 858.4375 813.4375 Fire Dept Fort Worth B4 859.4375 814.4375Admin. Fire Dept Fort Worth B5 860.4375 815.4375 EMS Fire Dept White Settle. 45.6200 Police Dept Azle 154.0550 Police Dept Bedford 1 154.5450 Police Dept Benbrook 453.4000 Police Dept Euless 855.2375 Dispatch Police Dept Euless 855.4875 Police Dept Everman 1 453.4000 Police Dept Everman 2 453.9000 Police Dept Flower Mound 154.0550 Police Dept Fort Worth 1 460.0500 465.0500 Police Dept Fort Worth 2 460.1000 465.1000 Eastside Police Dept Fort Worth 3 460.1500 465.1500 Southside Police Dept Fort Worth 4 460.2000 465.2000 Southwest Police Dept Fort Worth 5 460.2500 465.2500 Northside Police Dept Fort Worth 6 460.3000 465.3000 Tactical Police Dept H.E.B. 453.5750 Hurst/Euless/Bedford Police Dept Keller 453.1000 Police Dept Lake Worth 154.7850 Police Dept Lake Worth 453.3750 Police Dept Lakeside 453.3750 Police Dept White Settlemen154.1150 Police/Fire Arlington 856.4875 811.4875 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 856.7125 811.7125 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 857.4875 812.4875 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 857.7125 812.7125 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 858.4875 813.4875 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 858.7125 813.7125 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 859.4875 814.4875 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 859.7125 814.7125 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 860.4875 815.4875 All City Depts Police/Fire Arlington 860.7125 815.7125 All City Depts Police/FD Crowley 482.0875 Police/FD Crowley 482.9875 Skywarn County 146.9400 STATE OF: TENNESSEE COUNTY OF: Shelby Airport Memphis 155.7150/ Security Baptist Hosp Memphis 155.2800/ Wing I/Wing II Helicopter Baptist Hosp Memphis 453.0750/ Paging Bldg Inspect County 453.2000/ Bldg Inspect Memphis 453.9000/ Cablevision Memphis 461.5000/ Civil Defense Memphis 45.3600/ Civil Defense Memphis 153.9200/ Civil Defense Memphis 154.9950/ Civil Defense Memphis 155.8950/ Fire Dept Millington 155.0700/ Fire Dept/ Bartlett 1 154.3400/ Fire and EMS Fire Dept/ Bartlett 2 153.7700/ Fire and EMS Fire Dept/ Collierville 1 154.4150/ Fire Dept/ Germantown 154.0100/ Fire/EMS Fire Dept/ Memphis 1 453.7500/458.7500 Ambulance Fire Dept/ Memphis 2 453.5000/458.5000 Air Crash Fire Dept/ Memphis 3 453.6000/458.6000 Ambulance Dsp Fire Dept/ Memphis 4 453.8500/458.8500 Fire Ground Fire Dept/ Memphis 5 453.9500/458.9500 Fire Dispatch Fire Dept/ Memphis 6 453.8500/453.8500 Fireground Indepndnt Sch Memphis 158.8950/ Local Govt County 155.1450/ Animal Cntrl Local Govt County 155.9250/ CJC Security Local Govt County 159.2100/ Atty General Local Govt Memphis 154.1000/ Housing Auth Local Govt Memphis 159.1800/ Strm Sew Dept Local Govt Memphis 453.1000/ Street Dept Local Govt Memphis 453.2500/ Animal Cntrl Local Govt Memphis 453.5500/ Electric Dept Local Govt Memphis 453.6500/ Sewer Dept. Local Govt Memphis 453.7000/ Sani/Dead Anl Medic Amb Memphis 155.2200/ Cty Schools Memphis 453.0500/ Security Memph Intntl Memphis 460.8500/ Baggage Memph Intntl Memphis 461.4125/ Ticket Memph Intntl Memphis 461.5875/ Fuel Trucks M. Light/Ga Memphis 158.8350/ M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.0500/ Elec Service M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.0750/ Gas Service M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.1000/ Customer Serv M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.1250/ Water Service M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.1500/ Electric Serv M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.2500/ Gas Service M. Light/Ga Memphis 451.6750/ Customer Serv M. Med-com Memphis 155.2050/ M. Med-com Memphis 155.3400/ Amb/Hosp Memphis St U Memphis 154.8600/ Security Meth Hosp Memphis 461.4250/ Maintenance Mid So EMS Memphis 155.3400/ Park Com Memphis 45.6000/ Police Dept Bartlett 1 154.7250/154.7250 Police Dept Collierville 460.0500/ Police Dept Memphis 1 460.1750/465.1750 North Side Police Dept Memphis 2 460.3000/465.3000 South Side Police Dept Memphis 3 460.3250/465.3250 East Side Police Dept Memphis 4 460.0250/465.0250 West Side Police Dept Memphis 5 460.3500/465.3500 Central Police Dept Memphis 6 460.2500/465.2500 Administrative Police Dept Memphis 7 460.1250/465.1250 Administrative Police Dept Memphis 8 460.2250/465.2250 Traffic/Detect ives/DWI Unit Police Dept Memphis 9 460.4000/465.4000 Mutl Aid Ch 9 Police Dept Memphis 10 460.5000/465.5000Mutl Aid Ch 10 Police Dept Memphis 13 460.0750/465.0750Station B Info Police Dept Millington 1 154.8750/154.8750 Radisson Htl Memphis 461.3125/ Radisson Htl Memphis 461.3375/ Red Cross Memphis 47.4200/ Sheriffs Dept County 154.8000/ Narcotics Sheriffs Dept County 155.0700/ Administration Sheriffs Dept County 155.8500/ Narcotics Sheriffs Dept County 156.0300/ Narcotics Sheriffs Dept County 453.7750/ Rescue Sheriffs Dept County 1 155.7900/ Fugitive/Civil Sheriffs Dept County 2 155.2500/ Info/Tactical Sheriffs Dept County 3 155.6400/ Dispatch TV - 3 Memphis 450.3500/ TV - 5 Memphis 450.0500/ TV - 5 Memphis 450.1500/ Engr TV - 5 Memphis 455.0500/ TN Hwy County 158.7300/ Memphis Area Transit Auth Memphis 453.2250/ Transit Auth Memphis 453.2750/ Transit Auth Memphis 453.3250/ Transit Auth Memphis 453.3750/ Transit Auth Memphis 453.7250/ Trauma Ctr Memphis 462.9500/ U of Tenn Memphis 453.8750/ Security WMC 79 Memphis 450.2500/ Air Watch Weather Net Memphis 146.8800/ COUNTY OF: State Sheriffs Net 155.3700/ State Parks 151.1600/ Tennessee Wildli 159.2400/ West Tennessee P 155.9100/ West Tennessee P 158.7750/ þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY - NORTH CENTRAL Michael Redman Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details & questions for Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota to: Greetings, folks hope it's not too hot to monitor! Hope you have been taking that scanner along on those weekend outings and trips and will let us know what you have heard. The column originally intended for July appeared in August because of a mishap in transmission on the California end of things. My apologies for the absence of your favorite (?) column a couple of months ago. We all enjoy the RCMA Journal but few really know how much hard work, most without paid salary, goes into the best monitor1ng publication there is. We're human, we make mlstakes, and we're sorry for the inconvenience As some of you go back to school, either as students, teachers, or other school employees, remember that many school districts use radio to communicate from school to school and between maintenance personnel. Most districts with school buses use radio, and with a little in-vestigation, you can locate the frequencies in your school district. They can make for some interesting listenlng and, of course, our readers would like to know what you hear. Some of them use unique ten-codes and some sound very unconventional. Look in the business bands and on the VHF "special emergency" channels between 155.160 and 155.400 Mhz. In the St. Louis area, they are everywhere, from 31.00 Mhz. to UHF business band to 800 Mhz. Check those PL tones, too! IOWA AE: Chuck Gysi KENT (CA-OR-422) is planning a trip to Iowa, and Chuck has provided this information that may be of interest to the rest of us . . . 155.565R Iowa State Patrol, Southeast Iowa 155.655R Iowa State Patrol, Johnson County & Iowa City 155.700R Iowa State Patrol, L.E.A. repeater, SE Iowa 155.685R Iowa State Patrol, L.E.A., Iowa City area 155.430 Iowa State Patrol, car to car 155.505 Iowa State Patrol, radar patrols 155.475 Iowa State Patrol, Mutual Aid 155.445 Iowa State Patrol, investigations 453.625 Iowa State Patrol, mobile repeaters 458.625 Iowa State Patrol, mobile repeater handhelds 154.370 Washington City/County fire 154.695, 154.72S, 155.250 Washington City/County police 155.850, 155/910 Washington City/County police mobiles 154.130 Dubuque fire 460.375R, 460.425R, 460.450R Dubuque police 154.175 Dubuque County fire 154.860, 155.310 Dubuque County Sheriff 155.850, 155.910 Dubuque County Sheriff mobiles Another member who prefers to remain anonymous submits this information: 154.400 Benton County Fire 155.190 Benton County Sheriff 453.325 Benton County Highway Department 154.370 Blackhawk County Fire 154.875 Blackhawk County Sheriff 45.800 Blackhawk County Highway Department 154.340 Bremer County Fire 155.070 Bremer County Sheriff 154.195(?) Bremer County Highway Department 154.190 Buchanan County Fire 154.965 Buchanan County Sheriff 151.070 Buchanan County Highway Department 154.340 Butler County Fire 158.790 Butler county Sheriff 156.165 Butler County Highway Department 154.145 Cedar Falls Fire 155.130 Cedar Falls Police 154.235 Cerro Gordo County Fire 154.740 Cerro Gordo County Sheriff 151.070 Cerro Gordo County Highway Department 154.310 Ch1ckasaw County Fire 154.860 Chickasaw County Sheriff 150.995 Chickasaw County Highway Department 154.280 Statewide Fire Mutual Aid 154.415 Floyd County Fire 155.190 Floyd County Sheriff 151.100 Floyd County Highway Department 154.235 Franklin County Fire 154.725 Franklin County Sheriff 151.010 Franklin County Highway Department 154.175 Grundy County Fire 154.085 Grundy County Sheriff 453.650 Erundy County Highway Department 154.355 Hardin County Fire 155.745 Hardin County Sheriff 151.055 Hardin County Highway Department 154.725 Iowa Falls Police gepartment 155.565 Iowa State Patrol, Cedar Falls base 155.700 Iowa State Patrol, LEA, Cedar Falls Base 155.640 Iowa State Patrol, Des Moines base 155.790 Iowa State Patrol, LEA, Des Moines base 154.385 Marshall County Fire 154.830 Marshall County Sheriff 151.070 Marshall County Hwy Dept 154.430 Marshalltown Fire 156.000 Marshalltown PD 154.130 Mason City Fire 154.890 Mason City Police Department 155.475 Statewide Mutual Aid 155.370 Statewide Police Intersystem 154.205 Taaa County Fire 154.830 Tama County Sheriff 156.120 Tama County Highway Department 154.250 Waterloo Fire 460.025 Waterloo Police Department KANSAS AE: Steve Jester More information on Wichita and Sedgwick County: 155.745 Derby Police 155.130 Wichita PD Fl, West Side 155.430 Wichita PD F2, East Side 156.090 Wichita PD F3, simplex car to car 155.190 Sedgwick County Sheriff Dispatch 154.875R Sedgwick County Sheriff F3 460.125R Haysville Police Dept. 154.190 Wichita Fire Dept. A, Simplex Fireground 154.415R Wichita Fire Dept. B, Dispatch 154.385 Sedgwick Fire Dept. The trunked system below will eventually replece the above: 855.2375 Public Service autopatch 856.4625 EMS, Fire Dispatch 1 857.4625 Sedgwick County Sheriff, Fire Ground 1 858.4625 Narcotics, Fire Ground 2 859.4625 Vice, Jail 860.4625 Homicide, local hospital radio patch An anonymous contributor indicates that the Shawnee County (Topeka) Sheriff's Department is using an 800 Mhz. system with multiple sub-fleets and phone interconnect. It is believed to be on a commercial shared network (SMR); any ideas? Shawnee County also uses 39.680, 39.800, 39.460, and 39.580/39.700. Here are aome additional channels: 460.475 Topeka PD Fl 453.850 Mission Twnshp FD 460.460 Topeka PD F2 154.340 Soldier Twnshp FD 460.350 Topeka PD F3 154.190 Topeka Twnshp FD 460.250 Topeka PD F4 158.745 Shawnee Co Civil Defense 461.625 Topeka Sch Sec 155.805 Douglas Co Civil Defense 154.430 Topeka FD 170.150 Statewide Disaster Ch 154.295 St-wide Fire Mutual Aid NEBRASKA AE: James Hoover Here is a submission from Nebraska's newest member, ROD (NE-025): 155.055 Dawson Co Road Maint 453.6625 Lexington FD 39.820 Tri-County Hospital 453.7125 Lexington FD 152.0075 Tri-County Hosp Paging 453.7625 Lexington FD 463.175 Heartland Amb, Med 8 458.1125 Lexington FD 462.950 Heartland Ambulance, Med 9 462.975 Heartland Ambulance, Med 10 452.700 Johnson Lake EMS 39.980 Lexington FD 453.1125 Lexington FD 453.6125 Lexington FD MINNESOTA AE: Jerry Ensign Anoka County has a new number and city code system. Can anyone fill us in on this new system? 38 Baker, 35 Henry, 40 Zebra??? Blue Earth County: Sheriff: 155.190, 155.760, 155.310 Fire: 154.310, 154.295, 153.830 Ambulance: 155.280, 461.075, 155.355, 155.385, 155.340 Butternut: 33.820 (F2) Lake Crystal 155.955 (P2 and F2) N. Mankato: 155.310 (Pol1ce), 155.880 (F2 and LG) Brown County: Sheriff: 155.490, 155.115 F1re: 154.445, 154.295 Ambulance: 155.355, 155.400, 155.340 Comfrey: 155.775 (LG & F) New Ulm: 154.055 (P2) Sleepy Eye: 453.525, 453.425 (LG & F) Additions and corrections requested SOUTH DAKOTA no input this month AE: Steve Keller NORTH DAKOTA AE: Rob Schmeig Let's have more input like the contribution last month from Duane (ND-007). We need more input from the western part of the state. MISSOURI: AE: Michael Redman Greetings and welcome to Missouri. The St. Louis Major Case Squad is a highly elite team of police investigators who respond from their multiple jurisdictions when a major crime occurs in a municipal venue. The unit responds in a converted motor home stored at the Florissant Police Departnent. Communications are primarily done on cellular phones and notification is by pager, but they do have some VHF high band radios on these frequencies: 154.725 Co-ide Emergency 155.730 State Sheriff's Net 155.475 Mutual Aid 155.055 Illinois I.R.E.A.C.H The unit also responds in Illinois. JAMES (MO-134) provides these frequencies for the St. Charles City trunked system (somehow missed in Police Call): 856.2625, 857.2625, 858.2625, 859.2625, 860.2625 This covers all city operations including fire, and they are adding "talkaround" in the near future. Send in your verifications, comments, frequencies, observations, etc. Your comments are always welcomed, and please send a S.A.S.E. for a reply. See you next month! þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY WEST Send Public Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details and questions for Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming to: Scott Reiff Hello all RCMA members. Sorry we could not be with you, but this editor has just been way too busy for everything I want to do and to have to do. Anyway, lets just get right down to business. OK? NO INPUT THIS MONTH ALASKA AE: Dan Morisseau COLORADO AE: George Hoggatt IDAHO AE: George Wight WYOMING AE: C D Smith ARIZONA AE: Bob Schmulian Next month we will print an EXCELLENT map, very nice, very detailed, of the Arizona Highway Patrol radio system. We don't have room to do it this month, but if anyone is in a real hurry for it, send and SASE to the Silverado address -Ed] HAWAII AE: Darrell R. Meacham Here is a list of Civil Defense Frequencies for Oahu: 148.150 C A P 47.500 Civil Defense 155.715 Civil Defense 155.865 Civil Defense 158.430 Civil Defense 158.250 Board of Water Supply 47.940 Gasco Net 151.985 Hawaiian Tel Net 153.650 Hawaii Elec Co Net 153.410 Hawaii Elec Co Net 155.955 Control Net 158.955 Control Net 158.865 Mobile Units 158.955 Control Net Mobiles 148.905 Military NEVADA AE: Fred McGowan Washoe County Sheriff's Office Washoe County, Nevada Freqs 154.710, Consolidated Narcotics Unit (SO Washoe, PD Reno/Sparks) 154.950 " " 154.860 Washoe County Jail - Jail Control 460.050 " " 155.010 Detectives/Supervisors BLUE Channel 155.160 Search and Rescue ORANGE Channel 155.205 S A R, Hasty Team - auto extrications RED Channel 155.310 Incline Village Substation YELLOW Channel 156.090 " " 155.520 Dispatch GREEN Channel 156.210 " " Input 155.550 ? ? 155.985 Records Check and Car to Car WHITE Channel Units 1030 - 1037 SGT's / Supervisors 3241 Gerlach 5153, 5154 Detectives 7251, 7253 Served a Process 9550 - 9552 Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Tribal Police 9152, 9153, 9150, 9157 Animal Control Patrols: First 2 digits beat #: 11 - 18. Third digit is Shift: 1 - graveyard, 2 - day, 3 - swing. NEW MEXICO ** AE NEEDED ** MONTANA ** AE NEEDED ** OREGON ** AE NEEDED ** From the membership survey, we have a nice channel plan for CCSO from OR-089, Gene: Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Clackamas County, Oregon 155.430 Ch 1 Dispatch 155.190 Ch 2 Traffic, Misc 155.760 Ch 3 Car to Car 155.610 Ch 4 Direct / 460.450 RX on cars 155.700 Ch 5 P D Gladstone 155.475 Ch 6 N L E E C - O P E N 155.595 Ch 7 P D Canby 154.935 Ch 8 O S P Ch 11 - Mt Hood 154.935 Ch 9 O S P Ch 10 - Goat Mtn 154.740 Ch 10 S O Marion Co 154.830 Ch 11 S O Wasco Co 155.010 Ch 12 S O Washington Co 155.280 Ch 13 S O Marion Co S A R 155.805 Ch 14 State S A R 155.805 Ch 15 State S A R with tone 155.910 Ch 16 O S P Salem 154.935 Ch 17 O S P Ch 9 - Portland 154.830 Ch 18 S O Wasco Co with tone 162.550 Ch 19 Weather 169.925 Ch 20 U S Forest Service 1 Bear Springs 170.525 Ch 21 U S F S 2 Ripple Brook 169.950 Ch 22 U S F S 3 Zig Zag 170.500 Ch 23 U S F S 4 Car to car/Field 169.950 Ch 24 U S F S 3 Direct Units B Boy P D Canby C Charlie Corrections D David S O Clackamas Co H Henry P D Gladstone N Nora P D Mallala P Paul P D Oregon City R Robert P D Sandy Z Zebra Narcs and Det S Sam P D Lake Oswego and West Linn W Willie Death i.e., "2 David 100" would be S O Clackamas Co Sheriff. First digit is shift, 1 - gvyd 2 - day 3 - swing. Then Alpha character, then unit #. 331 Clackamas Co Jail 218 S O Clackamas 6012 P D Sandy 7414 C C S O substation... Fuller and Causey 7421 C C S O substation... Oakgrove and East ** Editor's note: Gene, send in your list of S O Marion Co!! Also, I would like to get in touch with the RCMA member in Ontario, OR area. Please Write!! UTAH ** AE NEEDED ** Utah County Sheriff's Office Utah County, Utah 155.505 Ch 1 Utah state agencies 154.710 Ch 2 Secondary dispatch 158.970 Ch 3 Car to car 154.860 Ch 4 Dispatch 155.235 Search and Rescue 155.340 H E A R S 153.950 Fire/E M S Dispatch 154.100 18J & 5J Fire/E M S Dispatch (See codes) 153.905 9J Fire/E M S Dispatch (See codes) Utah County Sheriff's Office also dispatches for the following city agencies in addition to Utah County: American Fork, 5J Mapelton, 10J Genola, 17J Spanish Fork, 6J Santiquin, 14J Sundance, 21J Lehi, 8J Salem, 15J Elk Ridge, 22J Payson, 9J Goshen, 16J Stations (including above): 1J, Utah County 4J, Springville 19J, Woodland Hills 2J, Provo 7J, Pleasant Grove 20J, Highland 3J, Orem 13J, Lindon I D: 5J550 Amer. Fork EMS 14J514 Santiquin E M S 5J600 American Fork Fire 14J600 Santiquin Fire 6J560 Spanish Fork EMS 15J515 Salem E M S 6J600 Spanish Fork Fire 15J600 Salem Fire 8J580 Lehi E M S 16J600 Goshen Fire 8J600 Lehi Fire 17J600 Genola Fire 9J590 Payson E M S 18J600 Alpine Fire 9J600 Payson Fire 21J600 Sundance Fire 10J600 Mapleton Fire 22J600 Elk Ridge Fire I D Breakdown: First two Numerical/Alpha = What station Following SO only: Third Numerical = 1 - Deputy, 2 - Detective Fourth Numerical = Team Number, 1 - Team 1, 2 - Team 2, etc Fifth Numerical = 1 - Lieutenant, 2 - Sgt 1J101 - 1J199 = Sheriff 1J700 - 1J799 = Search and Rescue 1 - 99 = City Police (Example: 5J50) 70 = Animal Control Officer (Example: 5J70 1 = Typically Police Chief (Example: 5J1) WASHINGTON AE: Ken McLeod From membership survey: Pullman, WA 155.640 Pullman PD 155.085 Whitman Co Shrf TAC 155.370 Pullman area LERN 155.970 WA St Patrol - Pullman 155.340 H E A R S 155.940 Area Local Govt 154.385 Pullman Fire/E M S 155.865 Pullman Transit 156.210 Whitman Co Sheriff þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ PUBLIC SAFETY - CALIFORNIA Send Pubic Safety and Special Emergency frequencies, radio system details and questions to: Veryl J. Burt, Jr. I hate to start the September column on such a sad note, but the day I was preparing this a chopper that belonged to the LAPD was on routine patrol and at around 11:22 in the morning went down due to engine failure. There were three fatalities, two being officers, so I would like to dedicate this column to all the officers who valiantly respond in the sky: the Air Support Units of our nation's law enforcement agencies. (Just as a side-note: according to the LAPD, a chopper can replace 200-300 officers on the ground.) Here are the frequencies for the cities that were at the epicenter of the what is now being called the Sierra Madre Earthquake. Police Pasadena 482.3375 Freq 1 (Pri Dsp) 482.4375 Freq 2 (Tactical) 482.5375 Freq 3 (Detectives) 153.845 Freq 8 (Loc Govt) San Marino 156.330 (Main Dispatch) Monrovia 158.730 (Primary) Sierra Madre 158.730 (Pri-Shared) Arcadia 507.0625 (Primary) LA Co Sheriff 482.9875 (Dispatch -NE Pasadena) Fire San Marino 153.995 (Main) 154.175 (secondary) Monrovia 154.370 (Units 10-19) El Monte 154.370 (Units 20-29) Fire Sierra Madre 154.370 (Units 30-39) Arcadia 154.370 (Units 40-49) Pasadena Part of Verdugo Fire highlighted 8/91 column. Office of Emergency Services Disaster Services 153.755 R Civil Defense Fire (LA County) 154.160 "O.E.S. 1 " Civil Defense Fire (Orange Co.) 154.220 "O.E.S. 2 " I would like to acknowledge Gene Hughes, and thank him for letting me use most of the material from Police Call, Southern California Detail Edition, Copyright 1990. I would also like to acknowledge Government Radio Systems, Sixth Edition, Copyright 1990 Mobile Radio Resources. Usually I like to end the column on a funny note each month, but this month I will diverge from that, We should be indebted to the people of the Police and Fire Departments and Office of Emergency Services for their unfailing dedication to their work so our lives can be a little safer in time of disaster. I think a real word should be said about the Sierra Madre Fire Dept, they did just such a great job and, if you can believe this, it is ALL-VOLUNTEER!! Please keep monitoring and listening and send all Southern California contributions to my address. Hopefully by the next column we will Have an Associate Editor For Northern California. So keep up the monitoring until our October column. þÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄþ RAILROADS Gary L. Sturm and Bill Farmer, Editors Information about railroad frequencies and their uses, radio system details, and related questions to: Bill Farmer Last month we reported on the new road channels that Southern Pacific is planning to implement. Now we've received an unconfirmed report that the changeover has been put on hold until further notice. We'll keep you informed as more information becomes available. In the meantime, it would be a good idea to monitor the new road channel that is proposed for your area and let us know if it becomes active. Mike (NC-120) wrote again about the Camp Lejeune (NC) RR. He was able to catch up with the train and noted that the locomotive was lettered "USMC 270092" so apparently the trackage of the former Southern Railway subsidiary has been taken over by the Marine Corps. Mike noted an 18-inch antenna but the crew didn't know what frequency their radios operate on. In looking over maps of the area from various years past, Mike noted different railroad names for the same stretches of track at different times. The various names come about as a result of railroad mergers, and we get questions about it from time to time, so let's go over the histories of the two major systems in the southeast, starting with CSX Transportation. CSX was formed by the merger of the Chessie System railroads (Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio) with Seaboard System Railroad. Earlier, Seaboard System was formed by the merger of Seaboard Coast Line with Louisville & Nasville, Georgia RR, Clinchfield RR, Atlanta & West Point, and Western Railway of Alabama. Going back in time still further, to 1968, Seaboard Coast Line was formed by the merger of Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line railroads. The other major system in the southeast is Norfolk Southern, which was formed by the merger of Southern Railway with Norfolk & Western. Actually these two railroads still exist as subsidiaries of Norfolk Southern Corp., but their locomotives are being repainted and lettered Norfolk Southern. In another followup to last month's column, John (nonmember) reports that Kansas Southwestern was using 160.680 (a Union Pacific yard channel) in May but by June had its own frequency, 160.995. Switching has been heard on the latter but no dispatching; they may have another channel for that. Adding to Gary's report last June on Ft. Wayne IN, Norfolk Southern uses 160.515/ 161.235 for its PBX (they call it ARN). Indiana Hi-Rail uses 160.695 for dispatcher and road, and just started using 160.590 for switching. Kevin (CA-SF-016) sent a newspaper article telling of the planned construction of a track connection to link NJ Transit's Morris and Essex lines to Amtrak's northeast corridor line. The connecting track, in Kearny NJ, will allow commuter trains from Morris, Essex, Union, and Somerset Counties in New Jersey to operate directly into Amtrak's Penn Station in New York City, eliminating the need for passengers to change trains at Hoboken. The project is to be completed in 1995. An anonymous contributor sent an article from the Boston Herald telling of an incident on Amtrak's Colonial in which the engines uncoupled from the train near New London CT. The train and engines stopped without injury and the cause was under investigation. AMTRAK AND METRO-NORTH ROAD CHANNELS by CARL (NY-117) and RICK (IL-496) Amtrak now uses Metro-North's road frequency between Poughkeepsie NY and CP 12 which is the new Empire Connection. [Ed Note: beginning April 7 all Amtrak trains that had been using Grand Central Terminal in New York City switched to Penn Station. They run over a rebuilt freight line between Penn Station and CP 12 at Spuyten-Duyvil, where they enter and leave Metro-North trackage.] This means that between Albany and New York City Amtrak trains use four frequencies. Leaving Albany they are on Conrail 1 (160.800), south of milepost 130 (near Selkirk branch jct.) they use Conrail 2 (161.070), from Poughkeepsie to CP 12 (Empire Connection) they use Metro-North 1 (161.280) and from CP 12 to New York Penn Station they use Amtrak 1 (160.920). Metro-North Commuter RR is planning to implement new channel assignments. [When? -ed.] Presently, all three branches (Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven) are dispatched on the same channel [161.280]. Dispatching is done remotely through local transmitters from 42nd Street in Manhattan (near but not in Grand Central Terminal). The dispatchers are covering each other's transmissions, so multiple channels will be used. 160.950 Ch 1 Hudson Line road 161.280 Ch 2 Harlem Line road 160.545 Ch 3 New Haven Line road 160.410 Ch 4 Harlem and Hudson Lines maintenance of way 161.160 Ch 5 New Haven Line maintenance of way 160.770 Ch 6 "Shop Channel" chit-chat Police radios will have a different configuration. Metro-North does have other channels that are used for power, the shops, and Grand Central Terminal. At this point it is unknown if these will change. [Obviously the road channel changes will affect Amtrak, whose trains operate over Metro-North's Hudson and New Haven lines. In our June column we reported that Amtrak had changed to 160.920 between Boston MA and Providence RI. Rick says that as of April 7 the change had not yet occurred. -ed.] UNION PACIFIC - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA by ROB (CA-ST-006) A frequency list on the wall of the UP radio shop in Oakland CA in February 1990 showed the following channels for its 16-channel handheld radios: 160.740 Ch 1 Road east of Oroville 160.515 Ch 2 Road west of Oroville 160.290/161.520Ch 3 Admin. PBX 161.025 Ch 4 MW vehicle to vehicle 160.605/161.025Ch 5 MW PBX (blue) 160.680 Ch 6 Yard switchers 160.650 Ch 7 Santa Fe road 161.550 Ch 8 Southern Pacific road 161.100 Ch 9 Burlington Northern road 160.380 Ch 10 Mt. Diablo Disp. (old WP Road) Emergency Use Only, transmitter about half way up east side of Mt. Diablo (Morgan Territory) 160.275 Ch 11 UP Police (old WP) 161.205 Ch 12 Nationwide Common RR Police 161.280/160.785Ch 13 Old WP PBX (not in use at this time) 161.400 Ch 14 Southern Pacific Police & MW 160.530 Ch 15 Yard (red) 160.620 Ch 16 Yard (black) Other UP channels: 160.770 Yard (white) 160.830 Yard (orange) 161.115 Yard (yellow) used on San Jose Branch 161.460 Yard (green) used by Bay Area local LFE52 160.440 End to End UP Equip. 464.700/469.700 Mt. Oso Stockton Control Yard channels at Stockton CA: 160.740 Yard Tower to Trains 160.380 Yard switching 160.680 Yard switching 160.770 Yard switching 161.115 Yard switching The last frequency is used the least since they normally work three yard jobs. CORBIN, KENTUCKY by DAVID (nonmember) via GARY L. STURM (IN-045) 161.370 CSX Road with dispatcher calling trains 161.520 Trains to dispatcher 457.9375 End-of-train devices 160.770 East Yard switching 160.440 West Yard switching 160.380 Ch 2 Car Inspector 160.260 Corbin Shops 160.305 Signal Maintenance LOS ANGELES METRO RAIL by BILL FARMER (CA-VE-010) In June we mentioned new UHF channels for the Blue Line light rail transit system. With the help of a frequency counter we've determined that there is only one new channel, 472.4875/475.4875. It is called "Yard Control" and is used for movement of LRVs in the yard area. The road channel remains 471.3375/474.3375. Some changes on the VHF radios have taken place since our report in June. The channels are now arranged as follows: 160.425/160.635 Ch 1 Track, Power, & Signals 160.695/160.755 Ch 2 Not in service 160.425 Ch 3 LRV Maintenance 161.265/160.695 Ch 4 Not in service (discontinued 6/1/91) 161.505 Ch 5 Yard Control (rarely used) 160.725 Ch 6 Not used BURLINGTON NORTHERN - PACIFIC DIVISION by BILL (nonmember) via GARY L. STURM (IN-045) 161.100 Ch 1 Road: Vancouver BC to Vancouver WA 161.160 Ch 2 Road: also yards and Montana Rail Link Road 161.250 Ch 3 Yard: Portland area, Harbour Island Car Dept. 160.650 Ch 4 Yard: Balmer Yard, Tacoma Yard, Pasco Yard 161.310 Ch 5 Yard: Balmer Yard Hump, Tacoma Yard, Pasco Yard 161.010 Ch 6 Yard: Delta Yard (Everett WA), Tacoma Yard, West Seattle Yard, Vancouver WA 160.830 Ch 7 Yard: Stacy Street Yard (South Seattle), Yardley Yard (Spokane WA) 160.725 Ch 8 Yard: Willbridge Yard (Portland) 161.550 Ch 9 Yard: Seattle International Gateway 160.980 Ch 10 Pig Ramp (South Seattle) 160.965 Ch 11 Portland Hub Center, Spokane Hub Center 161.490 Ch 12 Portland Terminal Railway So long until next month - Gary & Bill TECHNICAL TOPICS Technical articles, technical tips, and questions on such subjects as monitor receivers, antennas and antenna systems, preamps, and accessory equipment like pan adapters and automatic recorders. Also send information and questions pertaining to the user's equipment of interest to listeners such as repeaters, links, tones, scrambler technology, trunking, voting receivers, etc., to: Alexander Woollcott (GA-080) MONITORING WITH COMMERCIAL GRADE EQUIPMENT Quite a few RCMA members have responded to my request for information on members who monitor with used commercial communications radio gear as opposed to (or in addition to) standard consumer monitoring equipment. While it seems that only a small minority of RCMA members use commercial gear as part of their monitoring shack, I am willing to bet that many more would use commercial gear if they were aware that it offers a viable alternative or supplement to consumer "scanner-type" equipment. The first question one might ask is what is "commercial equipment"? Commercial equipment is simply radio communications gear designed for private business or public uses, principally two-way communications. Occasionally commercial equipment includes single or multiple frequency monitors (capable only of receiving). I am unaware of any commercial "scanner" although they may exist. The next question might well be, what's so special about commercial equipment? The simple answer is that commercial equipment usually performs better and sounds better than consumer grade equipment. Commercial equipment generally performs better for a number of reasons. First, the equipment is generally manufactured with higher quality components than consumer equipment. With commercial equipment, manufacturers compete to offer state of the art components and performance. In consumer equipment, there appears to be an unwritten conspiracy among manufacturers to accept the lowest common denominator as the status quo. Second, commercial equipment is much more durable and ruggedly constructed. Just compare the casing on the typical commercial mobile rig to that on your favorite scanner. Rugged construction adds years of life to a radio, whereas cheap construction exposes the internal components to a higher risk of damage. Third (and most importantly), commercial equipment is designed to comply with much more rigorous performance specifications than consumer equipment. The assumption, probably a correct one, is that two-way communication is more critical than casual monitoring. In fairness to some consumer equipment, it is difficult and expensive to build a wide frequency range, multi-channel radio receiver that meets high performance specifications over the entire range of frequencies; it is relatively easier to build a high performance radio that simply is limited to a single band and a limited number of channels. RCMA members report using a variety of commercial equipment for monitoring purposes. Many use old two way gear. Most use old mobile equipment. Some use old transceivers. Some use handheld portable. By far the most common manufacturer represented is Motorola. The next most common is General Electric. Other names mentioned include Plectron, and Johnson. By this point you are probably wondering whether there are any downsides to the use of commercial equipment. The answer is "yes". New and even relatively new commercial equipment is extremely expensive. Those state of the art components don't come cheap! For the most part, the only used commercial gear that is within the budget of most monitoring hobbyists is at least five years old. Moreover, these units often represent discontinued lines or models. Aside from expense, there are some other downsides to using commercial gear for your monitoring. Commercial equipment is typically limited to a single or small number of channels, and always to a single band. Commercial equipment looks like, well . . . "commercial," "functional." Don't expect a lot of bells and whistles with your commercial rig. You are likely to get three controls: an on/off switch, a squelch control and a volume control. The final drawback is the lack of widespread availability. Commercial equipment can often be purchased at hamfests and conventions. Another good source is your local commercial radio repair shop. Many of these shops will be happy to sell you used equipment, and some will even sell you some new stuff off the shelves. Their motivation is primarily public goodwill. Take heed of one piece of advice; remember that a commercial radio shop that offers to sell you a piece of equipment is doing you a tremendous favor; don't take them for granted, and don't act as if they have to sell you some equipment, because they clearly don't. I will describe two pieces of used commercial equipment that I own. One is a single channel Motorola desk top monitor. It is about the size of a scanner and I have it crystalled to receive the Georgia State Patrol base transmitting station on 154.680 MHz. This unit is probably at least ten years old, but it performs like a dream. Its sensitivity is better than any other radio I own (including the ICOM). For such a relatively small unit, it has loads of volume (about 5 watts). My other commercial piece is a Motorola voice pager, which is about the size of a pack of cigarettes. I have it crystalled to receive the Atlanta Fire Department Dispatch on 154.190 MHz. This little unit is a dream. The volume is louder and less distorted than any portable scanner that I have ever heard. Its sensitivity was tested to be about a .25 uV for 20db SINAD. I also own several mobile speakers from Motorola. These cost me a fraction of what a good external speaker designed for amateur equipment would cost, and they sound just as good. These speakers are good because they are designed to perform well in a noisy environment. Their speaker configuration is such that the speaker rejects or attenuate frequencies well above or below the range of the human voice, particularly higher frequencies (which have been found to cause listener fatigue or stress). Because of the attenuation of high frequencies, the background hiss (which is generally higher pitch than the typical range of the human voice) that occurs with a weak radio signal is much less apparent on one of these commercial grade external speakers. I will share some comments from Allan (RI-038) regarding his commercial equipment, because I think that Allan's enthusiasm about sums up the great benefits of searching long and hard for a good piece of commercial gear. Alan writes: "I recently purchased a used Motorola business dispatcher (CMT-3100) two way VHF High Band radio for monitoring the Warrick, Rhode Island Fire Department on 154.310 MHz and the PL tone of 162.20. The transmitter was disabled by the out of state 2 way radio shop I purchased the set from. There is only one way to describe the performance of this unit "awesome." Since this radio is equipped with Motorola's Private Line, I get no intermod or any other form of interference. The audio output is extremely crisp and clear. I also own a Bearcat 760 XLT with a CTCSS tone board. The Bearcat radio pales in comparison to my Motorola unit in regards to audio quality and clarity. Even with the tone board on the Uniden radio, I still get some intermod. The only drawback to the Motorola unit is that it is only a single channel unit. In addition, I would say that my Motorola unit is about 20 years old, but it still works extremely well. According to the shop where I purchased the unit, the Motorola radios will almost last forever. In fact when Motorola installs a new radio system they will take back the customer's old units which they destroy since they do not want the old equipment on the market. . . . I also own a used General Electric Master Pro External speaker which I purchased from a local 2 way shop for only $12.50. I suspect that the speaker is worth over $50. This speaker is hooked up to my Uniden 760 XLT and is a vast improvement over the built-in speaker." Thanks for the great letter Allan. Allan also expressed an interest in purchasing additional commercial equipment through a buyer's network. If other members have an interest in swapping information about sources of commercial equipment, please let me know and I will informally circulate this information. On a related matter, there is a limited amount of radio equipment that is available to public consumers that is designed to meet professional specifications. This kind of equipment is known as "commercial grade" equipment. The ICOM R-7000 is an example. While anyone can walk into an ICOM retailer and buy an ICOM R-7000 (anyone with $1,000 or so, that is), this unit is also frequently sold to commercial users as well. Speaking of commercial grade specifications, Allan (RI 038) also enclosed a spec sheet for his Motorola CMT-3100. Consider some of the following specs: sensitivity .35 uv EI-SINAD, .5 uv for 20db quieting; spurious and image rejection 86 db; squelch sensitivity .25 uv; audio output 5 watts at less than 5% distortion; selectivity more than -90 db at 15 kc (plus or minus)!