Can anyone please tell me where I can find scanner frequencies for the Alaska State Troopers? I had them some time back but they have since been lost and now seem almost non existent. If I could just get the frequencies for the main channel and car to car it would be great. Thanks so much.
Alaska State Trooper Frequencies Please
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They are in the database here
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=1001
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http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=1001
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Thank you kma371. I have those frequencies locked into my scanner however they do not seem to be the very strong, mega watt signals that I remember in the past. I live in the Northern Valley of the Mat Su Borough and I can remember picking up radio traffic from Seward, hundreds of miles away. I'm just a bit confused as to why I can no longer get these really strong signals. Thanks again so much for the link and your help.
I think they are migrating to this trunked system: Alaska Land Mobile Radio (ALMR) Trunking System, Statewide, Alaska - Scanner Frequencies
So you'll need a digital scanner eventually if you want to hear them.
There have been multiple threads on this board regarding this, you'll get some answers from that as well if you search.
Short and sweet: all their operations are on P25 ALMR system, and just about 95% of traffic is encrypted. 150mhz conventional frequencies are there for backup only.
Short and sweet: all their operations are on P25 ALMR system, and just about 95% of traffic is encrypted. 150mhz conventional frequencies are there for backup only.
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Yeah, if you watch that TV show, when they zoom-in on some of the radio control heads, you can see the secure mode & AES indications.
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( Drool - snifle - Rub hands together - drool some more - stare at radio system - wish - admire - cry -
talk incoherently - point at radio system and cry while still speaking incoherently )
They drive some nice vehicles. I admired a show last week - Ford Expeditions with all the trimmings.
Rough Duty those Alaska Troopers have , but dang they sure do have some nice equipment, and the
state does not hold back on supporting their State Law Enforcement Officers.
I am not an overtime fan at where I work, as it is extremely difficult, and physically as well as mentally tasking. But a Wildlife Trooper - In Alaska, or a Road Trooper ( Highway drug interdiction ). Humph - Work me.
Issue me an Expedition - Secure comms - and give me duty in some of that gorgeous country.
Work, camp and fish, work. Boy that would be rough huh.
That camper in the woods, near a lake.... would not take long to pay off
"Alaska State Troopers" is a good show. And for what they do, and where they go, and some means of travel ( John Boat - Airplane - and even walking ) Morale seems to be really high.
Kudos to the Alaska State Troopers.
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I watched a show awhile back. They were at a mountain range doing a ??? ski machine rescue ???
One of the Troopers was talking on a portable, and I did not get a good enough look at it to see what the portable was. But they were near the top of a snow covered mountain, and he was talking back to a base, for a helicopter evac for the injured person(s).
Due to the location, I was thinking it probably was a VHF system, and I did not hear the "Digital Keyup" when he hit the transmit button on the handheld.
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I believe it was an NCIC channel that I noticed, 33D that showed the Motorola symbol for encryption. I also saw the AES.
Well, I have mixed feelings about this one given the agency & remoteness of the terrain. Of course, if a trooper were lost or in trouble, he would have to rely on his colleagues because the public would be locked out.
I believe it was an NCIC channel that I noticed, 33D that showed the Motorola symbol for encryption. I also saw the AES.
Well, I have mixed feelings about this one given the agency & remoteness of the terrain. Of course, if a trooper were lost or in trouble, he would have to rely on his colleagues because the public would be locked out.
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You would think that if there were encryption problems, talking on the radio and got no answer - that there would be a non-encrypted radio channel. Something along the lines of a "Guard channel" - statewide non encrypted radio chennel......Right?
But the whole radio system is not totally encrypted.....Correct?
>>>>> 155.25000 KNIT840 BM AK AllAgency Statewide - All Agencies FM Emergency Ops
154.44500 KWA791 BM AK Fire Statewide - Fire Mutual Aid FM Interop
155.16000 KIB849 BM AK SAR Statewide - Search and Rescue FM Emergency Ops
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=3849
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Channels are not encrypted. Encryption is a feature on the radios which can usually be enabled/disabled by the operator if need be. From what I've read AK is 100 percent encrypted so I take it they don't disable it.
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You are correct about user-end encryption. But you lost me on "AK is 100% encrypted". That's not true even for the troopers. There are a number of trooper channels and they all vary in levels of enc. Most are encrypted, but it's definitely not 100%.
As far as mutual channels, a local fire department uses 154.445 to dispatch areawide here. Have not heard traffic on other channels in last year or so. I don't know much about radios themselves, but I'm thinking these radios have a simplex mode of some sort when out of ALMR coverage?
Again, east AST detachment has their own ALMR radio dispatch/NCIC/TAC channels.
It won't let me edit for some reason, but I meant "each", not east.
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ast are uesing motorola xts5000 models 2 and 3.
Yes the radios do have channels and zones of analog and digital simplex. But they also have and use in many areas what they call 'gateways' that would automatically or on demand take non-ALMR radios traffic and sort of patch them into an ALMR talkgroup so they can also talk. Many times you can notice this when different units are talking on a TG and they all show the same RadioID. These gateways are also needed due to many of the smaller agencies and entities that haven't been able to afford ALMR radios.
Just think of the possibilities of how many more ALMR radios could've been bought for many of the public safety agencies and volunteers with all the extra millions spent on encryption software, hardware, management and upkeep on an ongoing basis....
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Hello all...I recently accuired a Uniden BCD396T, and I am definatly clueless on how to program all the frequencies available for the Mat Su/ Anchorage area. Looking for someone out there that can help me out with this problem. Thanx
Hello all...I recently accuired a Uniden BCD396T, and I am definatly clueless on how to program all the frequencies available for the Mat Su/ Anchorage area. Looking for someone out there that can help me out with this problem. Thanx
Although I don't know much about Uniden receivers, feel free to message me if you have any general scanning questions in southcentral ak. Online RR community is pretty small from what I've seen, but hopefully someone will come around to help with model-specific questions.
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I've seen some of the AST vehicles (or was it *only* a couple VPO vehicles??) that have had VHF Marine band radios crudely mounted in them. Same thing for a couple AST aircraft.
Looks like they use VHF/Marine radio in the bush communities. Most of the villages are out of range of the ALMR that AST mainly uses. Many villagers also communicate via VHF, I heard.
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I can verify that. A lot of the villages I was in, VHF marine radios were the sole source of communications, for everything from idle gossip, to calling for FD/PD or VPSO help, to hunting chat, to hailing bush planes. CB also ranked pretty high on the local comms scene, though not as much due to power limitations.
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