Over the last month I have been picking up an unknown control channel in the Navarre area which I thought was Pensacola Florida. The SID for the frequency is 385.3125 which displays as BEEOO-14C-0121, part of the DOD P-25 Mil system in this area. In Navarre I normally pick it up in the evening with 1 bar on my BCD996T. When I go to Pensacola I get a max reading of 5-bars.
So far I have identified the system as being used by the Navy, more exact a NAS (Naval Air Station). The talkgroups I have identified so far are the following.
28013 – Fire EMS
28130 – Police
What is strange about the transmissions is the radio operators refer to dispatch as JAX. Example would be the fire trucks refer to dispatch as JAX Fire and the police refer to dispatch as JAX Dispatch. The EMS units were referred to as JAX Med-1 and 2. The base sounds pretty big because they have referred to a golf coarse, movie theater and they have more than one fire engine and med units. During the last 2 emergency calls it only took the fire/ems less than 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. When patients were transported, it took the med units only 3 minutes to transport them to a NAS hospital.
I find this hard to believe that I am picking up the NAS in Jacksonville Florida when I get max signal strength in Pensacola. I originally thought this was a new Pensacola P-25 system but NAS Pensacola is still actively using the older 140-150 VHF system. Plus they refer to dispatch as Pensacola. I also thought it was one of the outlying fields but I have confirmed all their radio frequencies.
Can someone else in the Pensacola and Jacksonville areas tune into the above control channel and verify it’s location, and if you have a digital scanner, some of the talkgroups. You don’t need digital to see if you’re at least picking up the CC.
This is what I love about being a scanner hobbyist; find the unknowns and verifying them.
Thanks
Dan
So far I have identified the system as being used by the Navy, more exact a NAS (Naval Air Station). The talkgroups I have identified so far are the following.
28013 – Fire EMS
28130 – Police
What is strange about the transmissions is the radio operators refer to dispatch as JAX. Example would be the fire trucks refer to dispatch as JAX Fire and the police refer to dispatch as JAX Dispatch. The EMS units were referred to as JAX Med-1 and 2. The base sounds pretty big because they have referred to a golf coarse, movie theater and they have more than one fire engine and med units. During the last 2 emergency calls it only took the fire/ems less than 5 minutes to respond to emergency calls. When patients were transported, it took the med units only 3 minutes to transport them to a NAS hospital.
I find this hard to believe that I am picking up the NAS in Jacksonville Florida when I get max signal strength in Pensacola. I originally thought this was a new Pensacola P-25 system but NAS Pensacola is still actively using the older 140-150 VHF system. Plus they refer to dispatch as Pensacola. I also thought it was one of the outlying fields but I have confirmed all their radio frequencies.
Can someone else in the Pensacola and Jacksonville areas tune into the above control channel and verify it’s location, and if you have a digital scanner, some of the talkgroups. You don’t need digital to see if you’re at least picking up the CC.
This is what I love about being a scanner hobbyist; find the unknowns and verifying them.
Thanks
Dan
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