Where is Pickerington, OH PD

[sbrunton1956]

Where is Pickerington, OH police department? I've scoured RR and several dozen Google hits but haven't found anything definitive. You'd think a municipality of that size is on MARCS or MARCS-IP but I've found nothing.

I currently have 17 frequencies in my Pickerington favorite and got a brief hit on 154.9800, that's it. That can't possibly be all of their police traffic.

I have a HomePatrol 1 and have found every other local municipality and the local OSP units. This is kind of a mystery!

 

[wa8pyr]

Where is Pickerington, OH police department? I've scoured RR and several dozen Google hits but haven't found anything definitive. You'd think a municipality of that size is on MARCS or MARCS-IP but I've found nothing.

I currently have 17 frequencies in my Pickerington favorite and got a brief hit on 154.9800, that's it. That can't possibly be all of their police traffic.

I have a HomePatrol 1 and have found every other local municipality and the local OSP units. This is kind of a mystery!

A simple Google search turns up:

Welcome to the City of Pickerington's Website and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickerington,_Ohio

These show Pickerington is in Fairfield County, and from there it's a hop, skip and jump to the appropriate listing in the RR database:

Fairfield County, Ohio (OH) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

All of their confirmed frequencies are listed. If PPD is using something new, no one has submitted it to the database.

 

[sbrunton1956]

I work in Pickerington 2 days a week. I was there today, had the scanner in my car, and finally marked some Picktown traffic on 460.50 (RR database) and 154.98 (found in my reading somewhere). My residence is about 20 miles from Picktown as the crow flies; their system just isn't strong enough to reach me.

Still unusual to me to see such a large city not on MARCS or MARCS-IP.

 

[gtaman]

I work in Pickerington 2 days a week. I was there today, had the scanner in my car, and finally marked some Picktown traffic on 460.50 (RR database) and 154.98 (found in my reading somewhere). My residence is about 20 miles from Picktown as the crow flies; their system just isn't strong enough to reach me.

Still unusual to me to see such a large city not on MARCS or MARCS-IP.

Reynoldsburg just left 460.3000Mhz they use to interop all the time because Pickerington and reynoldsburg had the same programming in thier radios. They may switch now though since the neighbours switched.

 

[wa8pyr]

I work in Pickerington 2 days a week. I was there today, had the scanner in my car, and finally marked some Picktown traffic on 460.50 (RR database) and 154.98 (found in my reading somewhere). My residence is about 20 miles from Picktown as the crow flies; their system just isn't strong enough to reach me.

Back when they first went to 460.500, they had a very powerful repeater which could be heard 30+ miles away. This was a problem next door in Franklin County, where the (properly licensed) countywide car-to-car/tactical channel was 460.500 and co-channel interference caused a number of headaches. No one ever could figure out why the coordinators and FCC allowed PPD to be licensed for 460.500, and PPD turned the power back which alleviated the issue somewhat, but since this was about the time everyone in Franklin County outside Columbus was starting to move to 800 MHz it quickly became mostly a non-issue.

The power got cranked down again during narrowbanding (probably to about what they're actually licensed for). Now the system covers Pickerington and a bit beyond, as it should.

Still unusual to me to see such a large city not on MARCS or MARCS-IP.

Not especially unusual, there are plenty of comparable cities in Ohio not on MARCS, for a variety of reasons.

All of their neighbors are either partnering with or simply becoming MARCS customers, but Fairfield County seems to have some sort of pathological aversion to MARCS. It's almost like they're violently allergic. . .

 

[gtaman]

Back when they first went to 460.500, they had a very powerful repeater which could be heard 30+ miles away. This was a problem next door in Franklin County, where the (properly licensed) countywide car-to-car/tactical channel was 460.500 and co-channel interference caused a number of headaches. No one ever could figure out why the coordinators and FCC allowed PPD to be licensed for 460.500, and PPD turned the power back which alleviated the issue somewhat, but since this was about the time everyone in Franklin County outside Columbus was starting to move to 800 MHz it quickly became mostly a non-issue.

The power got cranked down again during narrowbanding (probably to about what they're actually licensed for). Now the system covers Pickerington and a bit beyond, as it should.



Not especially unusual, there are plenty of comparable cities in Ohio not on MARCS, for a variety of reasons.

All of their neighbors are either partnering with or simply becoming MARCS customers, but Fairfield County seems to have some sort of pathological aversion to MARCS. It's almost like they're violently allergic. . .

Fairfield county wants to play the wildcard and go to DMR. Apparently it's working pretty well for them. They blast over Franklin county and pickaway with it.

 

[wdz]

I've been wondering if they will eventually follow the sheriff's office and go dmr as well.

If you are too far away to hear it, I do provide a feed for them on broadcastify.

 

[tazz]

So, is the Pickerington Trunked LTR Radio System still active ??????


Pickerington Trunking System, Pickerington, Ohio - Scanner Frequencies

 

[oesjmr]

So, is the Pickerington Trunked LTR Radio System still active ??????


Pickerington Trunking System, Pickerington, Ohio - Scanner Frequencies

I have it programmed in my scanner but have never heard anything on it.

 

[medic611]

The 154 frequency was always known as channel 2 it use to be the city services channel, before they went to Nextel. I never could never pick up the LEERN channel that is supposed to be patched to a UHF frequency that Pickerington had. I was surprised that with the trunked system the city installed for city services that the PD didn't move everything over to it.

 

[amcferrin90]

Ok so Fairfield Co is in progress of going DMR? Looking for a thread about it. Didn't want to discuss it in a thread about Ptown.

 

[gtaman]

Ok so Fairfield Co is in progress of going DMR? Looking for a thread about it. Didn't want to discuss it in a thread about Ptown.

Go back a page or two. You should see it with my info.