Hunters Ambulance changes from TPL to DPL

[n1leu]

Greetings,
While listening one day I wondered why I was not hearing Hunters. A search revieled that thay are no longer using TPL (tone p.l. or CTCSS) which ever you prefer and are now using DPL. The DPL they are now using is 431. Change you scanners accordingly.
happy listening and 73,
N1LEU

[Trinity-Explorations]

Can you please tell me the exact dispatch frequency and the DPL?

[firerick100]

463.7500 is the freq for meriden dispatch but i dont know if this is the one he was talking about.

[freightguy]

Hunters Dispatch frequency was 461.7875
The old one was 452.3250 and is still licensed as active at the ULS:

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsS...licKey=1912188

I made the change, but it had no effect.

Mike

[APX7500X2]

last I knew Hunters was on and LTR trunking system.
Maybe they switched off to conv now?

[firerick100]

i looked up hnters on scan new england and it says they are on the marcus LTR system but they this freq as a simulcast
MERIDEN

461.7875

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141.3

TRS Simulcast

[KB1JHU]

I don't get up that way much to spend enough time listening to confirm it but I think they simulcast on the conventional channel to dispatch a call but the rest of the traffic is only on the Marcus passport system.

[n1leu]

Ok,
what I have is:
461.7875 local dispatch (Meriden Area DPL 431
463.75 Meriden EMS dispatch p.l. 156.7 I do not hear activity here
461.9125 Hunters in Killingly unknown p.l. (listed as a freq. held by Marcus Spectrum Holdings Note: I have not heard anything on this freq. and do not get to this area often)
452.325 Hunters valid untill 2014 although I hear nothing on here anymore

[firerick100]

all this talk about hunters and nobody posted the freqs and talk groups of the marcus LTR system LOL

[cg]

They were on 61978 but it has been a while since I monitored the Passport system.

chris

[creeme]

Hunters Ambulance has been on the Marcus LTR system for several years. I can only comment on what I monitor which is their use of the Marcus system in the Middletown area. It is my understanding that on the Marcus system, a heavy user like Hunters is given a dedicated or priority channel at each Marcus site that Hunter's uses (businesses can decide the area they need to cover and the Marcus sites need to achieve that coverage).
In the Middletown area, the dedicated or priority channel for Hunters is 463.9125. You will not hear any transmissions other than from Hunters on that frequency. That frequency comes off the Marcus site on the old ATT Microwave tower located at the Middletown/Haddam/Durham Town Line. Highest elevation around. Tower can be seen over a wide area. Site has excellent coverage.

Hunters has multiple talk groups. So If a Chair car dispatcher is talking on 463.9125 and ambulance dispatchers needs to talk, ambulance dispatch will be on the next open frequency at that site. During the day, 463.9125 is talking almost constantly. It requires a dedicated scanner to monitor it. Because there are so many more chair cars and other non-emergency transport vehicles on the road during the daytime, leaving the radio on the frequency results in missing some ambulance calls as they are shifted to another frequency at the site. Nights and weekends - the frequency is just Hunters ambulance calls.

And because it is a trunked system, you do hear all transmissions regardless of where in CT the ambulance or chair cars are and regardless of the Marcus site their transmission is actually being received at. It appears that all transmissions are repeated at all sites used by Hunters.

[firerick100]

where can you find the freqs ans talk groups for marcus system hunters is on-i could not find it on here

[freightguy]

Specified Search

State = Connecticut
Status = Active
Frequency Assigned = 461.7875

Go to the ULS Search: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsS...40!-1139857033
Advanced Search and enter the specifics CT - Active - and 461.7875

Matches 1- 7 (of 7 )

Call Sign/Lease ID Name FRN Radio Service Status Expiration Date
1 WNGI708 HUNTERS AMBULANCE SERVICE INC 0004888756 IG Active 06/07/2014
2 WPHW528 STATE STREET DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT CORP 0013760459 IG Active 07/27/2015
3 WPUG714 Marcus Spectrum Holdings, LLC 0005009691 YG Active 03/01/2022
4 WPWX946 VERNON, TOWN OF 0003566114 IG Active 02/06/2013
5 WPZK783 Pfizer Inc 0009594375 YG Active 02/02/2014
6 WQFH990 PFIZER INC 0009594375 YG Active 07/20/2016
7 WQHL991 MILLBROOK CLUB 0016863268 IG Active 09/05/2017

[N1TGE]

It's much easier to listen to CMED to hear where they are going.