AMR Placer County

[darkstar187]

I have AMR Placer counties dispatch frequency but what about the frequency the units use to talk back to dispatch?

Thanks

 

[Sac916]

I have AMR Placer counties dispatch frequency but what about the frequency the units use to talk back to dispatch?

Thanks

What is the frequency you have?

 

[darkstar187]

What is the frequency you have?

AMR - PLACER 155.295000
AMR - YOLO 155.235000

 

[Sac916]

AMR - PLACER 155.295000
AMR - YOLO 155.235000

155.235 can be found here
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?ctid=239
It shows that 155.235 with CTCSS tone 141.3


155.2950 I found via FCC search
AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE WEST
License: WQAF896
Their transmitter is located at Rosebud Ln & Auburn Blvd
It shows just the one frequency

 

[darkstar187]

155.235 can be found here
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?ctid=239
It shows that 155.235 with CTCSS tone 141.3


155.2950 I found via FCC search
AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE WEST
License: WQAF896
Their transmitter is located at Rosebud Ln & Auburn Blvd
It shows just the one frequency

Now is there anything to do on my scanner with tone 141.3? What does that mean?

So with 155.295 there is no way to hear what the ambulance rig says to dispatch?

 

[gmclam]

AMR in Placer County

I monitor AMR in Placer County on 155.295 CT 162.2 .. I haven't paid close attention but I thought both dispatcher and ambulances are on the same frequency.

 

[darkstar187]

I monitor AMR in Placer County on 155.295 CT 162.2 .. I haven't paid close attention but I thought both dispatcher and ambulances are on the same frequency.

Ok so now with that I put the frequncy in. Then under Rx Mode do I select CT and in CT/DC put in 162.2?

 

[gmclam]

155.295 MHz

Ok so now with that I put the frequncy in. Then under Rx Mode do I select CT and in CT/DC put in 162.2?

Yes. What I have actually programmed is 155.295 CT 100.0 'Marysville Fire' in one channel. Then in the very next channel I have 155.295 CT Search 'AMR'. So when it is Marysville Fire, I get the correct alpha tag. If it is any other CT I hear it. I've received other CTs on the freq such as 159.8 or AMR in Modesto is 88.5.

 

[darkstar187]

Thanks! I have entered that CT and yeah I still only get the dispatch, nothing from the actual field radios.

 

[Station81FirstAlarm]

AMR is simplex (non-repeater) system (There is no input frequency, not that you would typically use an input freq. just for monitoring). Placer is on 155.295 (PL162.2). You will only hear the mobile units if you are fairly close or they are at good elevation (Auburn, Colfax). Yolo county is on 155.235 (PL141.3). It is the same type system, so you must be close to the mobiles or in either case, have a good VHF antenna. For either Placer or Yolo, AMR also responds on the fire channels which are repeated. Good luck.

 

[Station81FirstAlarm]

Also the PL (ie: 141.3, 162.2) are frequency (tones) that you would put in your scanner if it was CTCSS capable. Many modern scanners are, so depending on what you have, that is what you would put as the CTCSS for the particular frequencies 155.235 and 155.295 respectively. They are not frequencies that can be monitored as you may think in the literal sense, rather they are sub-audible and enable agencies to share the same frequency, however not hear one another. Think of them as sub frequencies within the frequency, or a sub channel on a FRS radio per say. For instance Marysville Fire would very well hear AMR dispatch if they weren't on a different PL. Sans some possible interference, they can co-exist on the same 155.295.

 

[scannerboy02]

155.2950 I found via FCC search
AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE WEST
License: WQAF896
Their transmitter is located at Rosebud Ln & Auburn Blvd
It shows just the one frequency

Just for s & g's I stopped by the transmitter today on the way home from my mothers house in Citrus Heights and took a few pics. If you look closely about mid-tower and just to the left in the 1st pic you can see CHP Air 21 flying behind the tower as they were doing speed enforcement along I-80 near Greenback. The tower is located right behind the building Foothill Ambulance used as H.Q. back in the day.

 

[Sac916]

Just for s & g's I stopped by the transmitter today on the way home from my mothers house in Citrus Heights and took a few pics. If you look closely about mid-tower and just to the left in the 1st pic you can see CHP Air 21 flying behind the tower as they were doing speed enforcement along I-80 near Greenback. The tower is located right behind the building Foothill Ambulance used as H.Q. back in the day.

Nice

I lived in Citrus Hghts for many years, used to drive by there all the time. For many years it was a skinny antenna, slim with little noticable features. Then obvious changes occured and I've grabbed many freqs from that tower using a freq counter.

 

[scannerboy02]

If I remember correctly AMR dispatches Sac (155.265 PL 203.5), Placer (155.295 PL 162.2) and Yolo (155.235 PL 141.3) from the center off Hwy 160 near Adren so I wonder if they still transmit from the Rosebud site and if so how they get the signal from Arden to Rosebud, I didn't notice any microwave antennas on the tower but they do have a lot of other stuff on it. I did notice three antennas on the very top of the tower that could be for the three frequencies but from the FCC data it looks like they only have the one licenced to that tower.

Edit: looking a little closer I do see some microwave stuff near the bottom of the tower, wonder if thats it?

 

[selgaran]

If I remember correctly AMR dispatches Sac (155.265 PL 203.5), Placer (155.295 PL 162.2) and Yolo (155.235 PL 141.3) from the center off Hwy 160 near Adren so I wonder if they still transmit from the Rosebud site and if so how they get the signal from Arden to Rosebud, I didn't notice any microwave antennas on the tower but they do have a lot of other stuff on it. I did notice three antennas on the very top of the tower that could be for the three frequencies but from the FCC data it looks like they only have the one licenced to that tower.

Edit: looking a little closer I do see some microwave stuff near the bottom of the tower, wonder if thats it?

The top of the tower looks like an antenna for an FM broadcast radio station to me.

AMR could use microwave, or more likely, landline.

The primary transmit site for the Yolo channel is Woodland Memorial Hospital.

 

[darkstar187]

AMR is simplex (non-repeater) system (There is no input frequency, not that you would typically use an input freq. just for monitoring). Placer is on 155.295 (PL162.2). You will only hear the mobile units if you are fairly close or they are at good elevation (Auburn, Colfax). Yolo county is on 155.235 (PL141.3). It is the same type system, so you must be close to the mobiles or in either case, have a good VHF antenna.

Got it. Yeah when I am more in town I can hear the mobile units on the same frequency. Thanks