ICIS Verdugo monitoring Red 1 only

[Code20Photog]

The way I have my scanner set up for work, I have a couple banks of just "hot" channels, LACoFD, LAFD, Long Beach FD dispatches, LAPD Hotshots, CHP Blue, etc.

What I'd like to do is have a seperate bank set up for JUST Verdugo Red 1. I currently have the whole ICIS system and corresponding frequencies and talkgroup IDs programmed in a bank, but to get through all the sites and frequencies is time consuming when we're trying to just hear the pertinent stuff.

Hoping to program in the *MINIMUM* amout of sites and frequencies to be able to JUST hear Red 1. Does anyone know what those sites and freqiencies may be?

[LAflyer]

Depending on where you are located and your reception of the ICIS sites, program in either the Burbank, Glendale or Pasadena site(s), and the simply enter a single Red-1 talkgroup.

[pepsima1]

Originally Posted by Code20Photog

The way I have my scanner set up for work, I have a couple banks of just "hot" channels, LACoFD, LAFD, Long Beach FD dispatches, LAPD Hotshots, CHP Blue, etc.

What I'd like to do is have a seperate bank set up for JUST Verdugo Red 1. I currently have the whole ICIS system and corresponding frequencies and talkgroup IDs programmed in a bank, but to get through all the sites and frequencies is time consuming when we're trying to just hear the pertinent stuff.

Hoping to program in the *MINIMUM* amout of sites and frequencies to be able to JUST hear Red 1. Does anyone know what those sites and freqiencies may be?

I would just setup a whole new site and use the ICIS Project 25 site and program in the primary and the alternate control channels for the Pasadena site and enter in either the Verdugo Fire Red -1 or all of the of the Verdugo talkgroups and be done with it. I live in Orange County and I am able to pickup the Pasadena site with no troubles. Hopefully this helps.

Interagency Communications Interoperability System (ICIS): Project 25 Trunking System, Los Angeles County, California - Scanner Frequencies

[karldotcom]

I guess this depends on which site you hear better in the news van, and where you do most of your traveling....it seemed to me Glendale had the widest footprint on those radio coverage maps....not sure how the Pasadena site compares to that... but things may have changed since those maps were posted.

ICIS - Interagency Communications Interoperability System

[Eng74]

What scanner are you using? For the Uniden 396/996 and the XT's if you have a free group just program it in as its own group. For the GRE 500/600 you can have that talk group as its own scan list then have the rest of the fire TG's in another scan list.

[Code20Photog]

Originally Posted by Eng74

What scanner are you using? For the Uniden 396/996 and the XT's if you have a free group just program it in as its own group. For the GRE 500/600 you can have that talk group as its own scan list then have the rest of the fire TG's in another scan list.

I have a 396XT. How I have it set up at the moment is like this

System 9
Group 1 LACOFD Blue 8
Group 2 LAFD Disp 7,8,9
Group 3 Long Beach FD
Groupd 4 LAPD Hotshots

you get the idea. I thought you can't mix a trunk system into a conventional system in the 3096XT? What I was planning to do is just make system 99 the ICIS Verdugo and only have the Red 1 TG, but as I mentioned before it takes too long to go through *all* the frequencies and sites. Right now, I have Verdugo as system 22, and it bogs down the scan time so I only really use it if we're in the Verdugo areas.

[Eng74]

That is right that you can not mix on the 396XT's. Do you have a free group on your Verdugo system? Then just add a group with Red 1 and turn the other groups off. The down side is if you want follow a call you will have to turn on the other groups. It might just be faster to do a 2nd Verdugo system and just have Red 1 as the only group on it.

[Code20Photog]

That's what I do with OCFA, but the problem I want to avoid, is having to scan all the frequencies and tower sites which bogs down the scanner. I was hoping to be able to *only* scan the essential frequencies and sites to be able to hear Red 1 basically in the Valley/Verdugo/Los Angeles area.

[Eng74]

Time to do the scanner junkie fix, add another radio and not another bank.

[scottyhetzel]

Originally Posted by Code20Photog

That's what I do with OCFA, but the problem I want to avoid, is having to scan all the frequencies and tower sites which bogs down the scanner. I was hoping to be able to *only* scan the essential frequencies and sites to be able to hear Red 1 basically in the Valley/Verdugo/Los Angeles area.

You probably her VHF red1 from Arcadia all over except for semi valley. I can hear VHF conventional all the way to Newport Bch..

[bigmattyl]

Originally Posted by Eng74

Time to do the scanner junkie fix, add another radio and not another bank.

this is it