What's worth listening to in Ft. Worth?
- Thread starter garys
- Start date
- Status
Gary,
These agencies on the FWRRS are encrypted:
FWPD
Arlington PD
Grand Prairie PD
Fire & EMS is in the clear for these.
Tarrant County and the other cities on layers 1 & 2 are not encrypted, neither is NETCO, Mansfield, Johnson County, Irving, and Midlothian/Red Oak. Cleburne, on the Johnson County layer, has one encrypted PD TGID, but everything else, including all the Fire & EMS, is in the clear.
If you have the DMR upgrade (I believe you do, right?), then you might also add the CareFlite talkgroups on the Megahertz system. They dispatch both ground ambulances as well as their medevac copter off that system. AirEvac and PHI Air Medical are also active in the area.
Depending on where in the county you'll be, you can likely also pick up the Parker County system and the Denton County P25 system. You should also be able to get Dallas PD & Fire/EMS on their conventional Uhf frequencies.
DFW Airport is still on their ProVoice system, but are supposed to move to a P25 Phase II system by the end of this year. I am hearing occasional traffic on the new system now.
Fire & EMS appear to be in the clear if you're listening to this system:
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=7349
Anything with a "D" under the "mode" field is digital with no encryption, whereas "DE' is digital with encryption. Looks like most law enforcement talkgroups are encrypted here...
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=7349
Anything with a "D" under the "mode" field is digital with no encryption, whereas "DE' is digital with encryption. Looks like most law enforcement talkgroups are encrypted here...
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2002
- Messages
- 6,092
Thanks. I do have DMR, so might try that. I've had so-so luck getting Dallas in the past, but will try it.
As it happens, I'll be in Weathersford for a couple of days duck hunting. Yeah, I know it's early and going to be warm, but it's our only window of opportunity. Maybe I'll program that in as well.
I'll be right in downtown Ft. Worth, so that's mostly what I'd want to hear.
As it happens, I'll be in Weathersford for a couple of days duck hunting. Yeah, I know it's early and going to be warm, but it's our only window of opportunity. Maybe I'll program that in as well.
I'll be right in downtown Ft. Worth, so that's mostly what I'd want to hear.
If you're going to be in Weatherford, then the Parker County system is what covers that. We are supposed to get cooler temps this weekend, so maybe the front will push a few toward you.
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2002
- Messages
- 6,092
Sunday, maybe. Saturday is going to be too warm. Best year we had up there it was 32 degrees at sun up. Froze, but had a good time and got a lot of them.
As a sort of incident notificatiion. You can follow several accounts on Twitter.
@ScannerRadioDFW , @DFWscanner , @midcitysscanner or @ArlingtonScan1 are the most active and all but the first have associated Facebook pages. These are provided by hobbyist so are not active 24/7 but still give a pretty good heads up of major incidents in the area. Mostly on the Tarrant County side, but best of all they are free.
@ScannerRadioDFW , @DFWscanner , @midcitysscanner or @ArlingtonScan1 are the most active and all but the first have associated Facebook pages. These are provided by hobbyist so are not active 24/7 but still give a pretty good heads up of major incidents in the area. Mostly on the Tarrant County side, but best of all they are free.
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2002
- Messages
- 6,092
As it turned out, it was the exact opposite of what it should have been. Saturday was a good day and we hit them pretty hard. Sunday started out promising, but then the wind died down to nothing. We still got some, but the ducks weren't buying it because there was no wind to land into. Still worth it, though.
In FW now with the scanner running. Since it's Sunday, it's pretty quiet. A few fire and EMS calls, but nothing else going on. I'm staying down town and getting both layers very well.
I'm going to add in the Megahertz DMR system and see if it's active.
In FW now with the scanner running. Since it's Sunday, it's pretty quiet. A few fire and EMS calls, but nothing else going on. I'm staying down town and getting both layers very well.
I'm going to add in the Megahertz DMR system and see if it's active.
That can get busy, sometimes with 4 or more copters on missions. I would advise only specifying the Careflite TGID's and not using ID Search. There are a large number of other users on that system, including construction companies.
Also put in PHI Air Med and AirEvac in the area (see the DFW section of Texas Medevac).
I sometimes check FlightRadar24 to see how many units are up.
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2002
- Messages
- 6,092
- Status
Similar threads
