St Pete Beach ?

[schnit]

I have a sister who lives in St Pete Beach, and I was interested in sending her a pre programmed scanner (the Pro-95 to be exact) that I do not use anymore (my area in Indiana went digital). However, I noticed that the DB for penellis county has 2 sites; Ridgecrest and Toy Town. Can anyone help me with which of these two are closer to St Pete Beach? Also, which talkgroups will I want to program for St Pete Beach EMS and Fire? I doubt she will want to listen to the other areas on this system as it is pretty vast. Last but not least, can someone help me find a list of signals/codes used in this area. Thanx a ton for any help in advance!!! -Drew

 

[Vern]

Try this site for some additional info:

http://www.tampascanner.info/fl/pine.htm

I live on the opposite coast so I can't vouch for any of it but you might find what you want there.

Good luck.

 

[schnit]

Not really but thank you. That link contains less info than this fine site actually. I still need to know which tower is closer to St. Pete Beach, which fire and EMS talkgroups are specific to St Pete Beach, and where to find a list of codes/Signals used by Pinellas Co Sheriffs Dept. I suppose I'm almost looking for someone who lives in that area who monitors that system.

 

[MilBil]

If you can't find the info you want on this site , you might try this one it has a lot of info .Hope it helps .
http://www.tampascanner.info/fl/pine.htm
http://www.tampascanner.info/

 

[MilBil]

Sorry I did not see the other post

 

[JohnnyGalaga]

Use the toytown (toytown is basically the south county aka st pete zone) site to monitor St Pete Beach PD. Use the Ridgecrest site (which is the larger countywide zone) for fire/EMS. All the fire departments in Pinellas County share the same 4-5 talk groups, so you have to listen to them all. The fire and sunstar (ambulance) talk groups only go out on the ridgecrest freqeuncies, not toytown. There is not any one fire channel dedicated for just st pete beach FD. Same thing with the sunstar ambulance service. Sunstar runs countywide, nut just for St Pete Beach.

Program each site into a separate bank in the scanner. Pinellas county is a smartzone system, but not all talk groups use true smartzone.

 

[Vern]

Try Google...

Here is a site that a simple Google search produced. They list lots of Dispatch Signals for Pinellas Co and surrounding agencies. On their homepage, they also mention a Yahoo newsgroup called Tampa Bay TRS that discusses public safety radio in that area. If you choose to join it and check their FILES section you may find updated talkgroup info.

You might try posting your query to that newsgroup since it appears that they're the "locals".

Here's the for the disp. signal & 10-codes

http://www.knology.net/~res0plht/codes.htm#PINELLASDISP

 

[SCPD]

Toytown is primary for the City of St Petersburg Police groups.. But St Petersburg Beach does NOT use that site as primary, they use the county site.

 

[JohnnyGalaga]

Toytown is primary for the City of St Petersburg Police groups.. But St Petersburg Beach does NOT use that site as primary, they use the county site.

I'm running trunker right now and St Pete Beach PD channel A is active on both the countywide and south sites. Perhaps we both stand corrected on this one.

I recommended using the toytown site because St Pete Beach is in south county and I suspect that most of the PD's use true SmartZone.

 

[SCPD]

Maybe you did not read what I typed. I said
"St Petersburg Beach does NOT use that site as primary"

I never said there comm's dont come thru that site. The Toy town site is non-Simulcast and does not repeat to the other towers in the county. Ridgecrest does.Toytown site is primary for St Pete, all other depts are secondary. Thats why I stated use the county sites. You will get better coverage that way. All city groups are smartzone. If you know how smartzone works then I dont have to explain to you why you hear city comm's around the county & other times you do not. If you stayed on the toy town tower you will see that you will miss county group calls at times. This is because toy town is a back up for county groups, not the primary. Trunker does not reflect true operations of how a smart zone system works.

 

[JohnnyGalaga]

I never said there comm's dont come thru that site. The Toy town site is non-Simulcast and does not repeat to the other towers in the county. Ridgecrest does.

I'm not sure that's correct, because fire and PSTA talk groups only go out on the ridgecrest zone but never on the toytown site, even though their radios could very well affiliate to the toytown site at times. Are you talking about simulcasting or multicasting?

Toytown site is primary for St Pete, all other depts are secondary. Thats why I stated use the county sites. You will get better coverage that way.

I disagree. Since St Pete Beach is in south county, I imagine their radios are more likely to always be affiliated to the toytown site rather than to the countywide zone. Wouldn't it make sense to therefore only monitor the toytown site?

This is because toy town is a back up for county groups, not the primary. Trunker does not reflect true operations of how a smart zone system works.

Are you a radio tech? How would you know all that for sure? You're right about trunker, but with trunker running on one zone and a trunking scanner tracking the other zone, it is possible to get an idea what's going on with the smartzone activity.

 

[schnit]

Awesome, couldnt have asked for more feedback. I think what I'll do is program a bank with Toy Town Tower and say this is just for St Pete Beach, and another with Ridegcrest and program the rest of the county and say "here it is if you wan to listen to it". Though I'm not exactly positive as to what smartzone means (no SZ systems in my area), it does make sense that St Pete Beach traffic would affiliate with the closest tower and not the furthest.

Vern,
I gotta tell ya buddy, I searched google with several combonations ie; Pinellas county radio signals, Pinellas county police codes..etc and never came across this site. Thanx a bunch, exactly what I was looking for in the "signals department".

I think I have what I need here, thanx to you all, see you on the beach..........!