HFStival Sat/Sun--Any good talkgroups?

[dtscho]

The HFStival is tomorrow and Sunday at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. I was wondering if anyone knows which talkgroups are likely to be used on Howard County's system. From looking at the database, I'm thinking maybe 40112 (Fire Event 1) and the "County" talkgroups.

Has anyone monitored a special event in Howard before? What did the police/fire use?

I will be monitoring tomorrow at least (maybe Sunday too), and will report what I hear. I'll also be listening for the organizers, who will probably be in the business bands...

Thanks,
Dave

 

[baybum]

I have heard:
40112 A5 EVT1 Event 1 Fire
45808 A8/B8 SOB1 Special Operations Bureau 1 Police
45840 A9/B9 SOB2 Special Operations Bureau 2 Police

during past events at Merriweather.
I'll be monitoring also and will post what I find.

 

[dtscho]

baybum,

Thanks for the talkgroups. Have you ever heard any frequencies used by Merriweather staff, organizers, etc.? Couldn't find anything in the FCC database.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[trimmerj]

Show is usualy farmed out to Cellar Door Productions (Clear Channel)

 

[baybum]

Command-D1- 46352 Police
A5- 40112 Fire/EMS

No civilian freqs heard but I did copy Merriweather had radios.

 

[bear105]

Heard a fair bit of activity on Police B1(TG47152). Sounds like the original conversation was started on C1(TG46128)(PI10) between some ground units at Merriweather and AIR30(AAco Helicopter). They were trying to sync up some antennas for a video feed. But AIR30 was having trouble hearing on C1 (and so was I).

 

[dtscho]

Just sent this to Scan-DC...

Here are some frequencies and talkgroups from Howard County's trunked system that were active for HFStival yesterday:

Howard Co. TRS
40112 Fire Event 1--primary EMS ops
46352 Police--heavy use by alcohol enforcement

451.8250 [ d074]
455.3875 [141.3] Local media--probably Baltimore station
461.1375 [ d152] CSC Event Staff (crowd control/security)
461.5125 [ d152] CSC Event Staff (crowd control/security)
461.5875 [ 71.9] Merriweather Ops?
462.1125 [136.5] Food/Concessions
464.3000 [ 69.3]
464.4250 [173.8] "tailgating"
464.8125 [ d155] Audio/Visual
466.6375 [ 71.9] Merriweather Ops--heavy use
467.8750 [ 67.0] "console"

Dave

 

[baybum]

Nice grab...did you "close call" these or are they posted someplace?

 

[dtscho]

I was using Close Call, but basically all of them were found by searching. Everything there is stuff I found--it's not posted anywhere else.

Dave