Akron / Summit

[fpo701]

I could use a set of ears on TG41328. It is someone's service or road department. I only have a few points of reference right now.

A few weekends ago, I heard mention of them plowing the Humane Society parking lot, which could mean Boston Heights or Boston Township.

This week, I captured audio that mentioned Anthony Ln. The Summit County Auditor website shows an Anthony Ln in Twinsburg Township.

I'm not familiar with that area of the county. It looks like Twinsburg Township has a Service Department, and Twinsburg Village has a Public Works department.

Can someone plug in 41328 and help with the research?

Frank

 

[KWs]

Heard some traffic yesterday on this TG .. it was a road crew .. they were talking about starting their route at the safety center .. which I would guess would be Twinsburgh Safety Center. Radio traffic was minimal so could not nail down much more. I'm guessing we may get more traffic on this TG with this weeks forecast snow storm. I have the TG plugged in on my HP under "Testing-Future" group.

 

[spdsgt766]

Tg41328

Most logically this is Twinsburg Township Service/Road Department. I know they just were added to the Summit 800 according to the meeting minutes for the system coordination. Also,the Humane Society is in Twinsburg Township. The Township also has a Safety Center on Rt. 14,it houses their town hall and Summit S.O. It used to be Twinsburg City's safety center years ago,and ironically is within the City limits.

 

[fpo701]

I thought that just Twinsburg FD was joining. If that's the case, it might be hard to tell which Service/Road department this is, as the FD covers both entities.

 

[spdsgt766]

Tg43128

Because were not talking about fire radio traffic it's road/service radio traffic. Twinsburg City's road/service utilizes 423.425. Twinsburg Township has they're own service department which has joined Summit 800. I don't get the further questions or mystery.

 

[fpo701]

I was just looking for clarification. You mentioned that the township had just joined Summit 800. I had thought it was just the Twinsburg Fire Department, which covers both the city and the township, that was going joining.

I'm not at all familiar with that end of the county. I was going off roads/landmarks, and using maps. It was hard to see where the city ends and the township begins. As you pointed out, the township does have buildings inside the city.

Thanks for the help.

 

[fpo701]

Got some new testing going on lately. 41424 and 41456 have been active for the last two days. They are calling 41424 "OPS 1".

I've heard "A14" and "R42", both of which are MetroParks Ranger IDs from their other talkgroup on the system. They mention Goodyear, "Field Office", Sand Run. This is even more indication of usage as a MetroParks Talkgroup.

At one point, they also mentioned a "ranger 1", when talking about the radios' Priority Scan feature. Could "Ranger 1" be the existing talkgroup (39568)???

Keep your ears out.

 

[85chevy4x4]

I didnt know they even had an existing talkgroup on the Summit County system, as far as I knew they used the UHF radios. I still hear them on the UHF frequnincy to. Il have to punch those 3 talkgroups in and keep an ear out for them.

 

[fpo701]

The 39568 is back a few posts/pages on this thread. It is mostly a talkaround. Every once in a while they have to use it to relay to dispatch when the unit in question can't contact over the UHF. I'm not sure why this was never added to the DB, but it is probably something to sit on until we can ID all channels.

I've actually tracked four talkgroups active over the last two days:
41392
41424
41456
41584

I just heard two guys talking. The radioIDs (thanks Uniden for this on the 396XT) were x1 and x2. That's the first two radios on the system. They might have been radio techs.

 

[davef1982]

I talked to a summit park ranger at Brust Park in Munroe Falls last week. He had some off brand portable on his belt with a speaker mic, and he also had and xts2500 on his belt. I asked him why he had both radios, and he said they still use the UHF system for day to day ops, but are in the process of switching. I have also heard the rangers call in on the Cuyahoga Falls dispatch channel on many occasions to inform them that they were gonna be shooting an injured deer at the Gorge.

 

[85chevy4x4]

Ok so theres actually 5 Talkgroups that sound like Metro Parks correct?
39568
41392
41424
41456
41584

 

[fpo701]

I've got a total of 7 so far this week:
39568
41328
41392
41424
41456
41552
41584

I'd add 41360 just in case. That's the only one out a 32-step offset that's missing, then a handful near end. I noticed some affiliating with SO Dispatch 1.

 

[davef1982]

Just wondering if anyone else heard the chatter from those suspected Metro Park talkgroups on Thursday. 39568 definitely sounded like a dispatch channel. I heard some traffic on 41456 in which one unit called another unit "on 2". Could this possibly be a secondary channel? As for talkgroup 41584, I heard talk about patients in what I assume were hospital beds. Anyone else hear this? It was right around 5pm on Thursday. They were also testing radios in an elevator on that talkgroup a few hours earlier. I am wondering if this is some type of hospital, and not the Metro Parks. I will keep monitoring these in hopes to determine exactly what they are.

 

[fpo701]

I'll have to listen to my recorded audio sometime today. I heard some unit on 41328 talking about POW flags. Could we be looking at this a little wrong? We know that 39568 has been around a while and is the rangers. They talk about helping APD, CFalls. They patrol te parks a lot. 41328 almost sounds like MetroParks Grounds or Maintenance.

This idea may be help in understanding the names. My original post on this mentioned OPS1 and RANGER1. So, we have MetroParks Rangers and MatroParks OPS. The use of 39568 for a while may make it a Ranger Talkaround.

 

[fpo701]

Dave, I think 41584 may be AMR. Recorded audio has them in hospitals and ERs throughout the 8 minutes of audio from this week.

 

[davef1982]

Dave, I think 41584 may be AMR. Recorded audio has them in hospitals and ERs throughout the 8 minutes of audio from this week.

That would make a lot of sense!!! I'm guessing they just haven't moved all of their operations over to the Summit County System yet. I don't monitor their VHF channel, but what I have heard on 41584 doesn't sound like a full dispatch channel. What I will do is pop the VHF frequency in my scanner and see if the things they are talking about match up with what I have heard on the Summit County System.

 

[fpo701]

I'm hearing a lot more traffic on 39568 tonight. It is usually just the rangers chatting back and forth. Sometimes they'll help relay when Summit (dispatch) can't hear them on 400MHz. Tonight, they are talking directly to dispatch. Most of the range radios are in the 20000 range, but dispatch is 16000 range, near the SO Dispatch.

I plugged in the 453.1 to see if I hear them tonight.

 

[davef1982]

I'm hearing a lot more traffic on 39568 tonight. It is usually just the rangers chatting back and forth. Sometimes they'll help relay when Summit (dispatch) can't hear them on 400MHz. Tonight, they are talking directly to dispatch. Most of the range radios are in the 20000 range, but dispatch is 16000 range, near the SO Dispatch.

I plugged in the 453.1 to see if I hear them tonight.

I was monitoring both the 453.1 and the talkgroup on the Summit County System today. Most of the traffic I heard was on the 453.1. I did stop listening around 5pm.

 

[85chevy4x4]

I've got a total of 7 so far this week:
39568
41328
41392
41424
41456
41552
41584

I'd add 41360 just in case. That's the only one out a 32-step offset that's missing, then a handful near end. I noticed some affiliating with SO Dispatch 1.

When you say affiliating with SO Dispatch 1, were the rangers on that channel? Or were they talking to the dispatcher on their own talkgroup?

 

[fpo701]

I'm not sure. I use a program that logs every time a radio leaves a site/turns off (deaffiliates), turns to a specific talkgroup/enters site (affiliates), and keys the mike on a talkgroup (grants).

I turn this data on its side to show for each talkgroup, what the users of that talkgroup also have been granted or affiliated with. So, I can see that users on Akron Traffic 2 also have tuned to Traffic 1 and Dispatch 1/2.

I can also drill down to each radio and see what talkgroups are associated with that radio.

Basically, all this tells me is that the radio is progammed with talkgroups x, y, and z. The program logs time of discovery and last seen for the talkgroup, the radio, and the relationship between a specific talkgroup and radio. This allows me to remove any errant data caused by bad control channel decoding. It only logs the associations and times, not the types.

To answer your question, I can see that some radios with 41424 in them also have 39568 and 32016.