Scanning Fire Dispatch

[nbradshaw]

If I wanted to scan Fire dispatch for Ada and Canyon County as well as the cities in these areas, what would you recommend as a decent (relatively cost effective) system?

If necessary, I am considering just starting with Ada County depending on cost.

Thanks for you input on this. I am very new to this.

 

[Lt51506]

For whats it's worth, Ada County fire is still on UHF, so just about any cheap scanner will work. I'm not sure about Canyon County, as I don't listen to them. As a note, Ada County fire has rejected the 700 mhz digital system due to their limited use in structures and non-ability to cancel out background noise, such as that picked up when using an air pack. This may change in a few years, as various manufacturers are working on solving this problem.

Tom

 

[PC1309]

Canyon County Fire is still on VHF as well for now. I know Nampa Fire has been doing a lot of testing and are using new ops channels, but are still broadcasting on VHF. Here is a list of freqs. for the area I don't know what you have but here is a start.

Ada County

Ops 1 154.2650 (BFD operation channel for alarms, fires, extrication auto and other major incidents. Ops 2 & 3 are used if Ops 1 is already assigned to an incident)
Ops 2 153.9950
Ops 3 154.1600
Fire 5 155.6700 (Boise Fire Dispatch)
Ops 6 155.0550 (Fire & EMS use this for Medical call updates)
Admin 155.1300 (BFD uses this for a lot of training also same freq. for Lucky Peak/Swan Falls Repeaters
Fire 14 155.3850 (Ada Fire Dispatch Meridian, Kuna, Eagle, Star)
Ops 15 153.7400 (Same as Ops 1 but for all other Ada County Depts)
Ops 16 154.4300 (Secondary County Ops channel)

Canyon County

Fire North 154.0100 (Dispatch for Caldwell, Wilder, Middleton)
Fire South 153.8900 (Dispatch for Melba)
Fire Response 154.1150 (CFD, MFD, use this for initital response on all fire calls then usually switch to a tac channel)
Canyon County EMS 151.1150 (Dispatch for Canyon County Paramedics and call information for CFD & MFD EMS calls)
Tac 4 154.3100 (Not sure if used very often anymore)
Tac 6 154.2800 (Used for most Working Fires in Canyon County Except Nampa)

NFD Ops 1 154.1900 (Dispatch for Nampa Fire Dept)
NFD Ops 2 155.9250 (Primary Ops Channel for NFD Multi Unit Response)
NFD Ops 3 154.4450
TAC 7 154.2200 (Was Primary Operations but not used much anymore)

State Comm F2 155.2800 (Dispactch for Rural/Mountain Ambulance Districts along with Department Homeland Security, Central District Health and other state agencies.

This may not be all the frequencies, but a good start and the most common used ones.

 

[Hopscotch]

Boise area

I'm looking for some more frequencies for the Boise area with both PD, FD, EMS as I have a fmaily member moving toward the Nampa area and is looking for all available public safety frequencies for that area.

Yes, I have looked at the frequency list over on the feeds section with the listing they have there, but, I'm looking for someone who'd be able to send me a pretty good listing for that area, that I can pass down to my dad for his move.

Thanks -

Jeff
KE7OUR

PS: Ham related frequencies would also be welcomed as well, including those that are also connected with an Echolink node as well.

 

[PC1309]

Most PD's in the Boise/Nampa area are all on the 700 Mhz system and are encrypted so you can't listen. I believe (someone correct me if I am wrong) some PD channels are not encrypted,. Idaho State Police is still broadcasting on UHF in the Boise area.

As for Fire and EMS in the Boise/Nampa area they are all still broadcasting on VHF frequncies for now. I have a thread on here from earlier and it has all the frequencies listed that are used in the area. There are more that are listed in the database page, but many of them are not used anymore.

 

[Go-West]

Most of Boise PD and Ada County Sheriff are encrypted. Their main dispatch talkgroups are in the clear and digital. Boise PD A - talkgroup 1100. ACSO Nora Units - talkgroup 1000.

Compared to other places I've lived at, this area is extremely quiet at times.