I have a ham radio in my car that can tune to listen only in the vhf and uhf freqs. I had Greer and Greenville PD and Fire loaded but I can’t hear it anymore. I think it stopped around the first of 2018. Did they go to encrypted or trunking? I can’t seem to find out about it anywhere.
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He's asking about a number of different agencies in this post. I'll provide what I think is current information. But I don't regularly listen to Greenville County public safety agencies, so my information could be inaccurate.
- Greer PD had been on UHF, but according to others they have now moved to Palmetto 800. Before the holidays, they were performing a lot of range testing on talkgroup 44381. They may be using that talkgroup or another talkgroup "near" that one in the 44000-44499 range. I don't hear it via the Spartanburg Simulcast site, so it's probably only carried on the Greenville Simulcast site. A wildcard search/ID Search should turn the up pretty quickly.
- Greer FD has been on VHF for a long time, and I heard them on VHF recently. Others have said they intend to move to Palmetto 800 soon, which is likely considering Greenville County taxpayers are funding a recent tax increase for interoperable fire department communications, presumably using Palmetto 800. Again, a wildcard/ID search while monitoring the Greenville simulcast site should turn them up once they move to 800 full time.
- Greenville PD has been on Palmetto 800 for quite a few years now. Talkgroups are listed in the database. They're heard on the Greenville Simulcast site.
- Greenville FD has also been on Palmetto 800 for many years, and those talkgroups are also listed in the database. They had previously used 453.900MHz/127.3 PL as an alert channel. Again, since I don't regularly monitor Greenville I can't say for sure it's still in use.
Hope that helps.
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