MPSCS monitoring - need tower info

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cipher77

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Hello,

I'm from out of town camping at Orchard Beach State Park just northwest of Manistee. I have entered the following tower freqs from the RR database into my 396T w/ the Arc396Pro RR internet import utility & I have het to hear any traffic on them. I've been monitoring these systems for the past 2 hours without a peep.

Onekema
Pleasanton
Mesick West

Am I missing something or are there other towers that are not labeled "Manistee" that I should be programming?

Any help would be awesome!

thanks
 

freqs

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The Onekema Tower 868.3875 looks like its coverage is in the area you are .the other 2 look to be East of your area .Also I dont know for sure the MSP for that area may or may not be dispatched on the Manistee County radio freqs .But I been in the the Upper Lower area last week and the MPSCS is quiet fro long period's of time
 

cipher77

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The thing that's really strange is that there's a msp hq just. North of manistee on route 31witha huge 300 ft. Self supporting tower behind it.
 

freqs

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Most MPSCS towers are not located at the MSP Post. so It may not be a MPSCS tower some of the old Post's may still have the old towers up from the 42.000 MHz days .Some of the Scale's do what they use them for I am not sure.It only be a guess it wouls be used for the Post's MPSCS Base Radio .I could be wrong
 

cipher77

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Well the strange thing is that I should at least see the signal strength indicator when it scans past a control channel. I'm not even getting that...
 

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You might want to try the alt CC freq as well they could be useing one of them .The alt CC is the freq in blue
 

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They have several alpha tags setup for post 51 area both on PD and Fire. Now I do not know if they are on MPSCS or not, that is one thing that would be nice is some maybe wiki update or something in the database section to say when they converted to MPSCS or are they going to and maybe a date as to when. On the old uhf/vhf freqs for PD and fire do you hear anything.
 

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The Manistee state police post is Post 77 and is on the MPSCS. Manistee County Sheriff and city PD are on the MPSCS as well, and it's likely that the Post 77 cars are dispatched by the county on the Sheriff talkgroup.

The Onekema site is probably the best one, although adding Pleasanton, Mesick West, and maybe Fountain might help you out a bit.

Mike
 

Ronaldski

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What I have done is loaded a bank with all teh control channels for the entire state, so I always have the ability to listen in. ->

854.2375
855.2375
866.0375
866.0750
866.3125
866.3875
866.7500
866.8875
867.0375
867.0625
867.1000
867.1250
867.3500
867.3750
867.3875
867.4000
867.4375
867.4500
867.4750
867.5625
867.6375
867.6625
867.7250
867.7375
867.7500
867.8250
867.8375
867.8625
867.8750
867.8875
867.9000
867.9125
867.9250
867.9375
867.9500
867.9625
867.9750
867.9875
868.0625
868.1125
868.1625
868.1750
868.2000
868.2125
868.2750
868.3625
868.3750
868.3875
868.4000
868.4125
868.4250
868.4375
868.4500
868.4625
868.4750
868.4875
868.5375
868.5750
868.6000
868.6125
868.6750
868.7000
868.7250
868.7375
868.7625
868.7875
868.8000
868.8125
868.8250
868.8375
868.8500
868.8625
868.8750
868.8875
868.9000
868.9125
868.9250
868.9375
868.9500
868.9625
868.9750
868.9875
 
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