Texas DPS in the DFW area

[ph03nix42]

Sorry if this should be posted somewhere else in the forum.

Anyone in the DFW area have the DPS plugged into their scanner and have any luck receiving?

I get spotty signals all throughout the DFW area even with all the region plugged into the scanner.

396XT w/Larson 150/450/850 mag mount

 

[Russell]

DPS comes in well in the DFW area, but I guess it depends on where you are. In Allen, I get DPS Dallas (B2), Sherman (B1), Greenville, Paris, Sulphur Springs. On good nights I can get Tyler, Denton. I can't speak for the west though.

Russell

 

[KE5BCP]

Great reception in Lewisville.

 

[nd5y]

At work (Meacham airport) on a hand held I can hear the repeaters in Aledo and Denton real well and the Decatur repeater is marginal.

 

[kw5kw]

Aledo (17a) can be heard as far east as The Colony with my Pro-96 and my Pro-106 with a stock antenna. However I can't hear Garland (Dallas); at my location in far west Fort Worth with an outside antenna while I can get Waco and Decatur.

 

[mikebennett]

Aledo (17a) can be heard as far east as The Colony with my Pro-96 and my Pro-106 with a stock antenna. However I can't hear Garland (Dallas); at my location in far west Fort Worth with an outside antenna while I can get Waco and Decatur.

Does Mineral Wells or Garland dispatch Tarrant Co DPS? I've never figured that one out.

Mike

 

[jasonavtx]

Mike-- i listen to Parker County DPS all the time, never heard them dispatching for Garland on the Radio ID of WXR376 out of Mineral Wells, but i have heard Hurst DPS units transmit on there as if they are linked somehow. But to hit on the real thread-- you can virtually pick up all DPS traffic on any of their freqs since it is universal statewide for TX. just hard to determine what cities it could be unless they identify by city of transmit, ie...Mineral Wells, Waco and so on. Supposedly soon accross the state all law enforcement is going to a system that is beyond digital & trunking in that our scanners will be obsolete to pickup anything. hope that is wrong!! anyone heard this one yet?

 

[SCPD]

Sorry if this should be posted somewhere else in the forum.

Anyone in the DFW area have the DPS plugged into their scanner and have any luck receiving?

I get spotty signals all throughout the DFW area even with all the region plugged into the scanner.

396XT w/Larson 150/450/850 mag mount

I'm up north of you, I get Sherman/Denton/Garland/Paris/Greenville/Sul-Springs/Tyler and Canton all fine just about 99.9% of the time. but that's also on a fixed mount antenna. In the car I only get the transmitting station that's withing 40 miles or so of me. I scan with a cushcraft 800MHz curly antenna (drilled) on a Larsen NMO mount on a PSR600 while driving. Unfortunately, Mobile antenna's just won't hear as much as fixed antenna's. Bet if you put your 396XT on some LMR400 coax and a VHF J-Pole 30 feet up or more, you'll hear better.

 

[Firetxmi]

So is there any rhyme or reason as to DPS unit numbering? Where can I find a list if there is one?

 

[hiegtx]

So is there any rhyme or reason as to DPS unit numbering? Where can I find a list if there is one?

See if this post helps.

I think there is a more extensive one in one of the multiple DPS related threads, but right now, I don't have the time right now to do a more exhaustive search. The regions maps are on the Tx DPS Wiki page, linked from the Collaborate link from the DPS main page.

 

[DPS8504]

Dps

So is there any rhyme or reason as to DPS unit numbering? Where can I find a list if there is one?

As of 12-1-09 we have had a massive unit number change to coincide with the Legislative boundry realingment we just went through.

Also Mineral Wells handles the Tarrant county units now off the Aledo repeater.
We still handle Decatur, out of Wichita Falls and that tower is only 35 feet.

 

[SCPD]

I was wondering what that was, 1900's in Dallas? Plus it seems the Dallas (Garland) Signal has significantly increased.

 

[texasemt13]

Well, I started hearing 63XXs and 65XXs use San Antonio today (159.0975MHz; that might explain that)- usually I'm not hearing those until I get further north in Region 6 (north of Austin to Waco).

Might have to dig around the internets to find more clues...

 

[jason51]

DPS Wichita

Will Wichita falls continue to handle Decatur/ WIse county? I heard rumor of a switch to Mineral Wells also.

 

[DPS8504]

Will Wichita falls continue to handle Decatur/ WIse county? I heard rumor of a switch to Mineral Wells also.

No changes in radio coverage for now. We will continue to handle Wise County.

 

[Para078]

So is there any rhyme or reason as to DPS unit numbering? Where can I find a list if there is one?

We used to have 112x and 153x in Kaufman County, now all I hear is 112x numbers. I thought we were a 2 sergeant area, and that's why the 2 sets of numbers.

 

[oSutrooper]

DPS Tollway used 112? and 113? as well as a few 123? fyi