Help W/Brevard County

[rk911]

hello to all. name here is Rich, N9DKO from western chicago suburbs. i'm going to be in the area for the next 4 days or so and would like to monitor the Brevard Cnty Sheriff as well as whomever provides police, fire and EMS to Mims, FL. we're staying in a campground in Mims right off I-95 at state route 46 and since i don't see any reference to a Mims PD or FD i'm assuming that either the sheriff or state provides police services??? what about fire and EMS?

i'm not new to scanning but i'm very new to scanning trunk systems. i've downloaded the conventional and trunk data from RR into my uniden 396T handheld but not hearing anything on either system. i see that BC is on an EDACS system but when i tried to download all 4 sites RR advised not to do that and to select only 1 site. i selected the Titusville site. was that correct?

if this system has been rebanded do i need to make manual adjustments to the control frequencies that i've downloaded or does the scanner do that on it's own? my scanner has the latest uniden firmware update (v3.02.02).

i'd appreciate any help coming my way.

'73
rich, n9dko

[FLRAILMAN]

Hi all, will the RR member who solves Rich's trunking dilemma please explain to me how the fire departments in Brevard Couunty, particularly the VFDs are getting toned out since I was advised in an earlier thread that every department is no longer simulcasting on their respective VHF high band frequencies anymore & I've read on other threads that 800 MHz trunked systems cannot support tone encoding. Thanks in advance.

FLRAILMAN

[WB2UZR]

Make sure you have the frequencies in the order listed, and starting at LCN position 11. Are you hearing the control channel at all? The Titusville tower should be your best bet. Another good source for freq info is at:
East Central Florida Scanner Page


Scott/WB2UZR

[rk911]

Originally Posted by WB2UZR

Make sure you have the frequencies in the order listed, and starting at LCN position 11. Are you hearing the control channel at all? The Titusville tower should be your best bet. Another good source for freq info is at:
East Central Florida Scanner Page


Scott/WB2UZR

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good morning, scott.

yes, i have LCN 11-22 entered, in order, as the trunk frequencies.

when i scan just that system and put the radio on HOLD it locks onto LCN11 and i'm hearing the constant sound of the control channel. signal strength is 4-5 bars on a 5-bar scale. as i step thru the 12 frequencies i'm hearing the same control channel noise (although a bit stronger...a steady 5-bars) on LCN22. are these the primary and alternate CCs?

RR does not indicate any control channels for the titusville site, at least none of them are marked in red or blue. does that mean the CC is unknown, they're all used intermittently as control channels???? RR also states that titusville has been re-banded. is that why no CCs are indicated?

trying to learn and understand.

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rich, n9dko

[WB2UZR]

Hi Rich:

You should be hearing bits of conversations as you step thru the channels, not sure why you are hearing the control channel on all the freqs. I am in the south end of the county, Titusville is a bit far to monitor comfortably, so I don't know much about it. Have you ever gotten an EDACS system to scan, maybe it's a setting issue? Maybe give the Rockledge site a try, it's the next one south.

Scott/WB2UZR

[rk911]

[QUOTE=WB2UZR;1188270]Hi Rich:

You should be hearing bits of conversations as you step thru the channels, not sure why you are hearing the control channel on all the freqs. I am in the south end of the county, Titusville is a bit far to monitor comfortably, so I don't know much about it. Have you ever gotten an EDACS system to scan, maybe it's a setting issue? Maybe give the Rockledge site a try, it's the next one south.

Scott/WB2UZR[/QUOTE

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scott, i'm not hearing the control channel on all of the trunk frequencies, just on LCN11 and 22. as i step thru the trunks i'm not hearing any bits of conversation. i'm assuming that this system is a fairly busy one??

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rich, n9dko

[WB2UZR]

Yeah, it's fairly busy, not all services use that tower, but you should be hearing a pretty steady stream of traffic. If you have a mobile radio and decent antenna with you, you can give our repeater in Melbourne a call. It's pretty far south, but might work. it's on 442.400/plus/107.2 Pl

Scott

[rk911]

ok...got it working. i changed the EDACS ID format from decimal to AFS. as soon as i did that i started hearing traffic.

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rich, n9dko

[rk911]

Originally Posted by WB2UZR

Yeah, it's fairly busy, not all services use that tower, but you should be hearing a pretty steady stream of traffic. If you have a mobile radio and decent antenna with you, you can give our repeater in Melbourne a call. It's pretty far south, but might work. it's on 442.400/plus/107.2 Pl

Scott

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yup...hearing quite a bit of traffic.

now...who handles police/fire/EMS for mims, fl? does the sheriff do that? titusville? state? who should i be listening to for mims activity? any idea on unit identifiers for mims?

thanks for the repeater invite, scott. i may give that a try a bit later. we're heading over to KSC in a bit.

thanks again for your assistance.

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rich, n9dko

[WB2UZR]

Good deal, figured it was something simple! Take a look at that web site link I sent you.it has all the locations for the various fire stations and what they cover. The brevard county fire rescue talk groups are in there as well as the Sheriff groups.

Scott

[JSTARS03]

It should be Sheriff and Brevard County Fire Rescue

01-011 Brevard North
03-011 BCFR Dispatch 1
03-101 Page 20
03-102 Page 40

I am not sure if you are in BCFR District 20 or 40.but both are on Dispatch 1
I live in the South end and do not listen that for north generally.

Titusville Tower has had two control channel for some reason.
The second one has no traffic on it and needs to be locked out.
Should be another Thread here on RR about it, within the last
week or two.

JSTARS03

[rk911]

Originally Posted by JSTARS03

It should be Sheriff and Brevard County Fire Rescue

01-011 Brevard North
03-011 BCFR Dispatch 1
03-101 Page 20
03-102 Page 40

I am not sure if you are in BCFR District 20 or 40.but both are on Dispatch 1
I live in the South end and do not listen that for north generally.

Titusville Tower has had two control channel for some reason.
The second one has no traffic on it and needs to be locked out.
Should be another Thread here on RR about it, within the last
week or two.

JSTARS03

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thanks, JSTARS03. appreciate the help.

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rich, n9dko

[rk911]

well, that answers that question of which agencies provide police, fire and EMS services to mims, fl. woke up this morning to find BCSO and BCFD units in the campground conducting a death investigation. one of the fire rigs was BCFD unit 222 and was also marked as the Mims Volunteer FD. so it would seem that mims is in dist. 20.

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rich, n9dko

[JSTARS03]

I saw that on the TV News this evening.
Was wondering if you had a little excitement up there.

JSTARS03

[rk911]

yup...that was here at the KOA. we had several BCSO cars, a CSI van, an ambulance and several fire rigs. and then the media showed up.

we saw coverage on two different channels this evening. one, channel 9 i think, made it seem that the death was v-e-r-y suspicious. according to the reporter there was a fine layer of soot everywhere inside the trailer but no sign of a fire and the body was covered in mud. on channel 13 it was as if they were reporting a different event. 13 reported that there were signs of a fire in the trailer and that a pack of cigs and a lighter were near the bed. a friend who was interviewed said the woman who died had been warned about smoking alone (she had had an earlier stroke). gotta love local media.

anyway, if anyone on this forum is tracking such things the Mims, FL VFD engine that was here was marked as BCFD 222. there were a couple of other rigs but i couldn't see their rig numbers. from what i've gleaned that liklely means BCFD station 22??? engine 2 perhaps?

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rich, n9dko

[WB2UZR]

Take a look here :

Brevard County Fire Apparatus

222 is the BLS Volunteer Fd Unit for the Mims area.

Scott

[rk911]

thanks, scott. seems like a logical way to number apparatus.

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rich, n9dko