OSP post 43??? MARCS TG 13344 - 868.4876

[dizwiz]

Yesterday, about 11:40am, I was driving on I-71 about 20 miles SE of columbus I-270 belt.

I heard an unprogrammed MARCS TG 13344 light up with info about a 99 Chev Malibu. A female officer (trooper?) located the vehicle and attemped a stop. A chase ensued and there was all kinds of lights-and-sirens activity. The chase was called off when the vehicle entered a school zone.

The dispatcher made reference to a 'OSP post 43 traffic begin chase procedures' or something like that while the chase was in effect.

Ive never heard of an OSP post 43 and this MARCS TG is not in our database.

Does anyone have any info on this TG? It was heard off of 868.4875 - Franklin Co

Unfortunately I cant tell you what geographic area the chase was occurring in as I was not familiar with the area, and street names.

[dizwiz]

I tried to edit this but had some difficulty.

The dispatcher might have been saying: post 43....
Not osp post43 like I stated. I really can't remember.

Also, the cc channel frequency was 868.4875 not 868.4676 like I put in the post title.

[keary]

I wonder if your scanner locked on to the Franklin County public safety control channel perhaps? I realize that 868.4875mHz is not one of the system's channels but I had a similar experience not all that long ago. While inside the 270 loop and while monitoring MARCS, my PSR500 managed to lock onto Franklin County's system and began tracking it instead of MARCS. It really threw me for a loop when I started hearing analog audio coming from MARCS all of sudden. In fact some of the MARCS talkgroups I had programmed into my scanner starting popping up but the voice traffic did not match the talkgroup at all. I did not find that talkgroup 13344 in the Franklin County database but there are several 13000-series talkgroups on their system. Just a hunch.

Keary

[wa8pyr]

Originally Posted by keary

I wonder if your scanner locked on to the Franklin County public safety control channel perhaps? I realize that 868.4875mHz is not one of the system's channels but I had a similar experience not all that long ago. While inside the 270 loop and while monitoring MARCS, my PSR500 managed to lock onto Franklin County's system and began tracking it instead of MARCS. It really threw me for a loop when I started hearing analog audio coming from MARCS all of sudden. In fact some of the MARCS talkgroups I had programmed into my scanner starting popping up but the voice traffic did not match the talkgroup at all. I did not find that talkgroup 13344 in the Franklin County database but there are several 13000-series talkgroups on their system. Just a hunch.

1. If the transmissions were digital, it wasn't the Franklin County system.

2. 868.4875 is the primary control channel for the MARCS Columbus simulcast site.

[cellison1460]

OSP changed policy about 8 months ago that changed how the post was identified. Previously a unit calling the post number, so a unit calling the Dayton post would call to "57" The new policy has them now calling into the dispatch center's name, a trooper would now call into "Dayton."

Where I'm going with this is that if it was OSP they should have been calling into a dispatch center name. Another thing, there is no post 43

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[mdulrich]

Signal 43 is to call the post, I'm wondering if you heard them tell the units to call the post.

Mike

[dizwiz]

yeah maybe it wasnt OSP...

Whatever unit it was definitely had sirens as I could hear them going in the background.

Sorry I dont have more info.

BTW. I posted this where it belongs, on the MARCS sticky.

Im going to address it in that thread.

If you are in the franklin county area, keep your scanner ears on for this TG ! exciting stuff on it.