Hi Marty187 - I can confirm that New Hope Police (49 series units) are indeed on Zone-6. In addition, Solebury Police (65 series units) are also on Zone-6. (Solebury Township surrounds New Hope.) All Zone-6 comms are phase-2 and are NOT encrypted. All police zones in Bucks have an additional talkgroup available for that zone that is encrypted and is only used for critical incidents by local police. There are several encrypted talkgroups on the system that are for use by agencies/operations that are sensitive (Detectives, SWAT, etc..)
The Eagle Fire Co is in on the Central fire Band and covers all of New Hope Borough. All dispatches are on 155.55 with a PL of 123.0. They also cover a significant portion of Solebury Township. Keep in mind that Eagle uses the county 700 Mhz simplex fireground channel for all onsite fireground comms, and Central Band for response and comms with Bucks County. There is also a UHF conventional repeater that is used for special events and internal coordination. (Many fire companies in Bucks have these 'local' conventional repeaters such as this.)
Eagle is located right between the North and the East fire band zones. Calls into those areas are responded to on those bands and it is announced on dispatch that operations will be on them.
Eagle also responds into Huntrerdon County for Level-2 and above calls in Lambertville. In addition, Tanker-46 is a part of the Hunterdon County 'South Tanker Task Force' and responds deep into Hunterdon on those calls. For Hunterdon calls, they are still dispatched by Bucks, respond on Bucks Central Band, but then switch to Hunterdon County UHF fire channels. For Lambertville calls, we switch to the F-2 repeaters for response and use F-8 simplex for fireground. The Tanker Task Force assignments operate on Hunterdon F-12 or 13 typically. All Eagle mobile and portable radios are dual band for operation on the Bucks 700 system, as well as on the Hunterdon 450 channels.
Lastly, Eagle also has a marine rescue unit and is periodically called out onto the Delaware river for rescues or recoveries. This is also dispatched by Bucks County on 155.55, response on Central Band, and then typically a switch to one of the County System TAC talkgroups on the system that County assigns. The reason for this is that marine rescue calls typically will include other juridictions and Bucks will put a patch in place between the various responders to insure somewhat smooth coordination. The Marine air boat radio is all-band capable and can coordinate directly with all other agencies up and down the river.
Please feel free to drop a private message to me with contact info for your friend and I'd be happy to give him a tour of the main fire station and fill him in with any added details he may be interested in.
