Platte County, MO

PVPD730 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2012, 5:20 AM

I keep hearing rumors that effective today 10/1/12, AMR Ambulance will be taking over ambulance response for the Southern half of Platte County (Parkville, Riverside, Lake Waukomis, etc). The contract with KCFD EMS apparently expired today. Does anyone know what system or frequencies AMR is using to dispatch calls in that area? So far, I haven't heard anything new on MARRS or the usual Platte Co frequencies...

scannerowner · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2012, 7:22 AM

My source told me they are already at South Platte and Inter City. He said the dispatch center in Independence controls Topeka, Independence, Miami County Kansas, Johnson County Kansas, S.Platte, Inner-City, and some other place he can't remember of. He'll get me the frequency info for all he said, so we can confirm with what's in the database. He also said that they make weekly contracts with someone.

PVPD730 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2012, 6:10 PM

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Originally Posted by scannerowner

My source told me they are already at South Platte and Inter City. He said the dispatch center in Independence controls Topeka, Independence, Miami County Kansas, Johnson County Kansas, S.Platte, Inner-City, and some other place he can't remember of. He'll get me the frequency info for all he said, so we can confirm with what's in the database. He also said that they make weekly contracts with someone.

Sounds great! So far, I've been listening to the 31843 talkgroup on MARRS, and it's nothing but JOCO KS stuff on that one. 155.175 seems to be covering only Independence and Sugar Creek runs.

scannerowner · #4 (**permalink**) 10-04-2012, 7:18 AM

I'm surprised to see AMR in Indpendence on VHF when they could be part of MARRS in interoperability terms... I have seen a few of the MO Rigs have 800 antenna's on them, I think.

scannerowner · #5 (**permalink**) 10-10-2012, 12:00 PM

SOUTHERN PLATTE CO. AMBULANCE DISTRICT DITCHES KC FIRE DEPT., GOES WITH AMR Here's an article I just found shedding some light into the picture for you. I can't tell the date it came out. It states that they're going to have to figure out between KCFD and Platte County who will be dispatching them... a lot to be ironed out I guess, but they'll get it figured out!

wbigcount · #6 (**permalink**) 10-23-2012, 1:03 AM

Tonight I heard an AMR unit get dispatched to a call in Parkville on 31843 (MARRS)

scannerowner · #7 (**permalink**) 10-23-2012, 7:16 AM

What "site" were they using?? KC, or JOCO??

wbigcount · #8 (**permalink**) 10-23-2012, 12:31 PM

I was listening to KCMO side

scannerowner · #9 (**permalink**) 10-23-2012, 3:19 PM

Ah cool! I'm still surprised to see the Independence AMR Units using Analog VHF. Kinda interesting in terms of interoperability in and around KC.

PVPD730 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 3:07 AM

Detected an active control channel on 857.2625 (new Platte County site).

Pro-96com readout--

Site Information:
System ID: 2B0
Tower ID: 403 (T0403)
WACN: BEE00
Tower Description: N/A
System Description: MARRS Regional P25
Capabilities: Voice, Registration
Callsign: N/A
Tower Status: Site Trunking Mode

Frequency Identifier Tables:
ID S Base Spacing TX Offset A/C Bandwidth
00 1 851.00625 0.00625 -45.00 C 0.00625
01 1 762.00625 0.00625 30.000 C 0.00625

Site Activity:
Ch Frequency Usage Type
00-0869 856.4375 a
00-1001 857.2625 c Control
00-1029 857.4375 a
00-1161 858.2625 a

No talkgroup activity as of yet...

hkrharry · #11 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 8:28 AM

Keep Us Posted.

I will see if I can hear it in town, my tower is in the south part of KCMO.

and put the logger on it.

HH

Quote:

Originally Posted by PVPD730

Detected an active control channel on 857.2625 (new Platte County site).

Pro-96com readout--

Site Information:
System ID: 2B0
Tower ID: 403 (T0403)
WACN: BEE00
Tower Description: N/A
System Description: MARRS Regional P25
Capabilities: Voice, Registration
Callsign: N/A
Tower Status: Site Trunking Mode

Frequency Identifier Tables:
ID S Base Spacing TX Offset A/C Bandwidth
00 1 851.00625 0.00625 -45.00 C 0.00625
01 1 762.00625 0.00625 30.000 C 0.00625

Site Activity:
Ch Frequency Usage Type
00-0869 856.4375 a
00-1001 857.2625 c Control
00-1029 857.4375 a
00-1161 858.2625 a

No talkgroup activity as of yet...

PVPD730 · #12 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 8:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hkrharry

Keep Us Posted.

I will see if I can hear it in town, my tower is in the south part of KCMO.

and put the logger on it.

HH

Will do. Seeing that the tower status is in "site trunking" mode, it may be a bit before any talkgroup activity comes to life. Will definitely be watching for "connected" mode :-).

scannerowner · #13 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 12:43 PM

Can you use the other Control Channels that are not active as Voice Channels? As it appears, they'll only have two Voice Channels to work with if you can't use the Control Channels that aren't being used.

nd5y · #14 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 1:07 PM

Each site can only have one control channel active at a time. All the rest of the channels are normally used for voice channels.

wbigcount · #15 (**permalink**) 10-24-2012, 3:30 PM

I picked up a new talk group on the KCMO MARRS today that had some Platte county radio id's, well I just started logging the Platte Co site 403 and the first talk group to affiliate was that new one. 34118

PVPD730 · #16 (**permalink**) 11-04-2012, 8:06 AM

Confirmed...AMR uses 31843 for calls in Southern Platte Co. Units are 501, 502 and so on.