omrail
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I am going to be traveling to Abbotsford BC in march. I am looking for Abby PD and Fire channels. As will as channels for the RCMP along highway5. Thank you
traveling to Abbotsford BC
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BC RCMP use a set series of channels province wide (except for in the lower mainland, IIRC) - the freqs are posted here, in the database.
RCMP in the lower mainland are on ECOMM WARS, the EDACS system for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. The police and EMS on that system, though, use a digital voice protocol that is incompatible with scanners (Provoice).
The scanbc.com website is invaluable for BC comms, in my experience - I traveled to YVR in 2005 for a couple of weeks and had great info obtained from there (and the database here, of course).
Having said that, Abby FD is neither in the database here, nor on scanbc, from what I could tell. TAFL, in that case, is your friend.
"City of Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service" has the following licenses, though I put no guarantees on whether they're actually other agencies' freqs (i.e. RCMP, EMS/EHS, etc) licensed to AFRS or AFRS's actual channels, etc. I've tried to keep what may be 'repeater pairs' together where possible.
154.19
154.22
154.43
154.89/160.095
155.46
155.685
168.645/173.655
171.66
The TAFL search engine is a third of the way down the page at http://sd.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.jsp - where it says "Radio Frequency Search". Many different searches can be made.
Good luck and have a good trip!
RCMP in the lower mainland are on ECOMM WARS, the EDACS system for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. The police and EMS on that system, though, use a digital voice protocol that is incompatible with scanners (Provoice).
The scanbc.com website is invaluable for BC comms, in my experience - I traveled to YVR in 2005 for a couple of weeks and had great info obtained from there (and the database here, of course).
Having said that, Abby FD is neither in the database here, nor on scanbc, from what I could tell. TAFL, in that case, is your friend.
"City of Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service" has the following licenses, though I put no guarantees on whether they're actually other agencies' freqs (i.e. RCMP, EMS/EHS, etc) licensed to AFRS or AFRS's actual channels, etc. I've tried to keep what may be 'repeater pairs' together where possible.154.19
154.22
154.43
154.89/160.095
155.46
155.685
168.645/173.655
171.66
The TAFL search engine is a third of the way down the page at http://sd.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.jsp - where it says "Radio Frequency Search". Many different searches can be made.
Good luck and have a good trip!
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omrail
Go to scanbs.com and they have all the frquncies you will be looking for. Abby police are not on the wars system as of yetm Ay be going P25 soon. They also have 246 files that can be downloaded and cut and pasted onto a scanner programing system if you are able to program your scanner with a puter..
Go to scanbs.com and they have all the frquncies you will be looking for. Abby police are not on the wars system as of yetm Ay be going P25 soon. They also have 246 files that can be downloaded and cut and pasted onto a scanner programing system if you are able to program your scanner with a puter..
omrail
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thank you Jay911 and HDMechanic for you help
omrail
omrail
your answer
Abbotsford fire rescue is on 154.890 exclusively...they have 3 career engines and sometimes a career rescue and then 4 fully volunteer halls and 3 composite halls
Abbotsford police department have 4 channels, dispatch ch1 is 142.9625, ch2 and ch3 are usually simplex ops, not used very often, and ch4 is info, pretty boring
also, British Columbia Ambulance Service can be found on 149.44 and 149.68, whichever you rx better
CK
Abbotsford fire rescue is on 154.890 exclusively...they have 3 career engines and sometimes a career rescue and then 4 fully volunteer halls and 3 composite halls
Abbotsford police department have 4 channels, dispatch ch1 is 142.9625, ch2 and ch3 are usually simplex ops, not used very often, and ch4 is info, pretty boring
also, British Columbia Ambulance Service can be found on 149.44 and 149.68, whichever you rx better
CK
kurtal said:
Are you sure that's .9625? Far as I know, Canada doesn't use the 12.5kHz band plan in VHF. You might want to try tuning your scanner to .96 or .965 and see if it still works, or works better.
Also, do you have the freqs for the other channels?
Thanks
omrail
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kurtal thankyou for thw info will be very helpful
omrail
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so i may have to update my scanner then i have 142.9625 for abby pd ch1. i have been getting them every time i have been out using 142.9625. when i do a TAFL search it shows 142.965 as MISSION,BC 33330-7AVE EMERGENCYSTBY DISTRICT OF MISSION PUBLIC WORKS. also scanbc has 142.9625
so what is it any one. may be out in next mouth so i will have to play around and see.
so what is it any one. may be out in next mouth so i will have to play around and see.
Its .9625. But you can still hear them on .965
omrail
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thank you stuck22 i was thinking i had it. when i am down i get them clear. i was hoping you would reply as you now the area.
Hi guys,
I meant to dive in here a day or two ago but got sidetracked with work and stuff.
The bandplan for the VHF "Hi" part of the radio spectrum (136-174 MHz, more or less) is different in US than it is in Canada. In the US, they operate with 12.5 kHz spacing, which gives you the xxx.xx25 values (or .xx75, etc). In Canada, we still currently use 5 kHz spacing, so you should never see a fourth digit after the decimal be anything but a zero.
Most scanners currently default to the American bandplan (the PSR500 is one exception I know about which has a Canadian setting), and any attempts to program a 5 kHz-spacing frequency will round it to the nearest 12.5 kHz value. Most of the time, the 12.5 kHz value is close enough to the real (5 kHz) value that you will still hear the signal with reasonably good results, but the 5 kHz value is the correct one.
End result, as far as this conversation goes: 142.965 is the correct frequency, but 142.9625 will do in a pinch. Even if your scanner defaults to 12.5 kHz spacing, you should be able to edit the frequency after you enter it and change the spacing ("step", sometimes) and then re-enter the frequency value. If you're comfortable with the audio quality you're getting from the 12.5 kHz spaced frequency value, it's up to you whether or not you "correct" it.
I meant to dive in here a day or two ago but got sidetracked with work and stuff.
The bandplan for the VHF "Hi" part of the radio spectrum (136-174 MHz, more or less) is different in US than it is in Canada. In the US, they operate with 12.5 kHz spacing, which gives you the xxx.xx25 values (or .xx75, etc). In Canada, we still currently use 5 kHz spacing, so you should never see a fourth digit after the decimal be anything but a zero.
Most scanners currently default to the American bandplan (the PSR500 is one exception I know about which has a Canadian setting), and any attempts to program a 5 kHz-spacing frequency will round it to the nearest 12.5 kHz value. Most of the time, the 12.5 kHz value is close enough to the real (5 kHz) value that you will still hear the signal with reasonably good results, but the 5 kHz value is the correct one.
End result, as far as this conversation goes: 142.965 is the correct frequency, but 142.9625 will do in a pinch. Even if your scanner defaults to 12.5 kHz spacing, you should be able to edit the frequency after you enter it and change the spacing ("step", sometimes) and then re-enter the frequency value. If you're comfortable with the audio quality you're getting from the 12.5 kHz spaced frequency value, it's up to you whether or not you "correct" it.
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