AC7FD
Member
Hi Forum,
please excuse my lack of knowledge as I just started monitoring the fire traffic a few weeks ago.
I try to understand how the local fire departments are getting their alarm from dispatch.
I used to listen to my local department in another state 10 years ago and they received an analog 2 tone alarm on a VHF frequency.
I also used to monitor Pocsag alarms when I lived in Europe for a while.
My local FD is Meridian, ID and I hear Ada County and Canyon Counity dispatch over the ICAWIN P25 system listening to the ADA County simulcast and I hear sometimes tones but I have no clue how I can figure out which ones belong to Meridian FD. I found a list of Stations and the Meridian FD vehicles are labeled 31 for station 1, 32 for station 2 and so on but I wonder how I get the alarm codes. I do have a Uniden BCD536 and a SDS200, can I somehow decode and record the tone frequencies with these scanners? I found the feature to open to certain tone frequencies but didn’t see a feature to record them all with dispatch message (to download them all once a day and start a list).
I also have an Airspy SDR that works great to monitor in case there is some software that can do what I‘m looking for.
Or is there already a list I didn’t find?
My end goal is to program my fire pager with the Meridian alarm tones to just monitor the local activities.
Thanks for any hints how to figure this out.
please excuse my lack of knowledge as I just started monitoring the fire traffic a few weeks ago.
I try to understand how the local fire departments are getting their alarm from dispatch.
I used to listen to my local department in another state 10 years ago and they received an analog 2 tone alarm on a VHF frequency.
I also used to monitor Pocsag alarms when I lived in Europe for a while.
My local FD is Meridian, ID and I hear Ada County and Canyon Counity dispatch over the ICAWIN P25 system listening to the ADA County simulcast and I hear sometimes tones but I have no clue how I can figure out which ones belong to Meridian FD. I found a list of Stations and the Meridian FD vehicles are labeled 31 for station 1, 32 for station 2 and so on but I wonder how I get the alarm codes. I do have a Uniden BCD536 and a SDS200, can I somehow decode and record the tone frequencies with these scanners? I found the feature to open to certain tone frequencies but didn’t see a feature to record them all with dispatch message (to download them all once a day and start a list).
I also have an Airspy SDR that works great to monitor in case there is some software that can do what I‘m looking for.
Or is there already a list I didn’t find?
My end goal is to program my fire pager with the Meridian alarm tones to just monitor the local activities.
Thanks for any hints how to figure this out.