Albertville Police

[shine]

Does anyone have any information on the NEW system in Albertville

 

[SCPD]

I've heard of the city, but what County are you in?. also look up in FCC database for any new frequencies they may be using, just located Albertvile.. will look around\
Paul

 

[SCPD]

Here is what i found, very top of the page under Marshall County

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=1462

atest News Update Posted on 2005-06-25 16:13:55
Albertville Police and Fire do not use any of the UHF or VHF frequencies that are licensed to them. These frequencies were abandoned once they moved to the 800 MHz radio system in 1997. They do not have any UHF mobile radios or portable radios in use. The weather sirens are activated over the old VHF fire frequency, 154.445. Police and fire personnel also utilize Nextel.
Click Here to Display All Past News Updates (3 Total)

System Frequencies
Red* are Primary Control Channels | Blue* are alternate control channels | Click a Site Name for additional site information

Site Name Freqs
001 Primary 856.76250 857.76250 858.76250* 866.32500 868.30000

System Talkgroups
Updated in the last 7 days Updated in the last 24 hours List All in one table Show New Talkgroups

Albertville Police Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description Tag
16 001 A 1A Dispatch
32 002 A 1C Detective
48 003 A 1E Aministration
64 004 A 1B Tactical
80 005 A 1D Jail

Albertville Fire Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description Tag
96 006 A 2A Dispatch
112 007 A 2B Operations Channel 2
160 00a A 2C Operations Channel 3

 

[shine]

The city is in Marshall county in the north east part of the state.I think the city has gone digital. my 2 bct-15's bct-8 and a radio shack 2051 will no longer pick them up. There was talk a few months ago in the local paper that the city would get new radios with the help from nextel to pay for most of the cost. I guess I'm looking at more $$$ to get a new scanner.

 

[SCPD]

read the above link

 

[silas]

Albertville Police and Fire are on the analog Motorola system AlabamaRS listed above. They use the control channel of 858.7625. I have not heard of them going to a new digital system.

 

[shine]

not as of yesterday 3/11/08 the control channel jumps from 856.7625 to 857.7625 then back. It stops every once in a while but no voices. Ive called and they have gone digital

 

[SCPD]

what scanner do you have?, IF APCO 25 you will need at least a pro 96 or equal. If anything but APCO digital ya can forget it about it

 

[chaserl]

They've gone.......

Yes, they have gone digital. I had them working for a bit on a pro-96 last night but it crashed in the middle of the night. I've yet to get the bcd996t to get it. Trying to figure out the parameters for the rebanding.

Does anyone have any information?

not as of yesterday 3/11/08 the control channel jumps from 856.7625 to 857.7625 then back. It stops every once in a while but no voices. Ive called and they have gone digital

 

[SCPD]

Look in FCC database for freqs, or may just stay on what they have?

 

[SCPD]

rebanding & going digital are two different things. neither has anything to do with the other

 

[silas]

not as of yesterday 3/11/08

That explains why I thought they were still analog (I knew I heard traffic on there last week). I was back in the Albertville area today and there was nothing on the old system.

I did find a frequency (855.8875) using the "Fine Tune Mode" on my PRO-97. I entered it as a Motorola system and it would stop on it and provide a talkgroup number, but only noise (I am assuming this is what happens with a digital system in an analog scanner). When I got home and checked the FCC database the freq and 9 others were liscensed to the City of Albertville with the callsign of WPJL979. Maybe someone with a digital scanner can check this out.

 

[chaserl]

Apd

Albertville went digital and rebanded at the same time.

Albertville Police Dispatch now shows as 16016
Albertville Fire Dispatch is 16336

 

[shine]

ok now what scanner will follow them now that they have went digital and rebanded? Is there a scanner that does not have to be reflashed to follow the system? Thanks, I need all the help I can get!

 

[chaserl]

Trunking

I'm getting them partially on a Pro-96 and a BCD996T. I believe some trunking tables will need to be updated, but not sure what they are.

ok now what scanner will follow them now that they have went digital and rebanded? Is there a scanner that does not have to be reflashed to follow the system? Thanks, I need all the help I can get!

 

[DARRELL]

The new frequencies for the Albertville system are as follows:

856.7625
855.8375
854.8375
853.3000
851.3250

Also, I have posted a thread under the Scanner Models Discussion forum about this system and the trunk tracking issues associated with it and the BCD396T and the PRO-96 that I have experienced.

 

[wwhitby]

Darrell:

I read your post about the 396T, and I was wondering if you had tried to track the Albertville system with a PRO-96 yet? As far as I can tell, this is the first operational rebanded Motorola system around here.

With Radio Shack being somewhat coy about the PRO-96 and rebanding, this is an opportunity to see if this system can be followed by manually programming rebanded trunking tables into a PRO-96/2096.

I got these tables for a rebanded 800 Mhz Motorola system a couple of years ago, but haven't had a chance to try them:

BASE OFFSET STEP
851.03750 002 12.5k
851.53750 040 12.5k
852.03750 078 12.5k
852.53750 116 12.5k
853.03750 154 12.5k
854.01250 231 25.0k

Take care,

Warren

 

[DaveIN]

So is anyone running UniTrunker or Trunker on this system?

 

[DARRELL]

Warren,

I have tried to track the system on a PRO-96. A friend of mine has one and he tried everything with it just like I have the 396. It did the very same thing as the 396. The unusual thing with the PRO-96 is that when there is voice being transmitted on 851.3250 and 853.3000, it displays a frequency beginning with 862 but no voice. The 396 does not show either frequency when there is voice on them. I am not sure if he tried the table. I believe that he tried them with no success.

I am not using UniTrunker or Trunker on the system. I do know anyone that has UniTrunker or Trunker.

Darrell

 

[wwhitby]

The unusual thing with the PRO-96 is that when there is voice being transmitted on 851.3250 and 853.3000, it displays a frequency beginning with 862 but no voice. The 396 does not show either frequency when there is voice on them.

Ok. That sounds like the control channel is telling the '96 to go to a certain channel, however the old channel numbers are different from the new channel numbers, hence the 862.xxxx frequency with no voice on it. The same thing will happen with an EDACS system if you have the LCNs and their associated frequencies wrong - the control channel will tell the radio to go to LCN x and when it goes to LCN x that you have programmed in your scanner, there will be no audio.

Supposedly, a custom 800 Mhz table will prevent that kind of problem.

I am not sure if he tried the table. I believe that he tried them with no success.

Can you find out for sure the next time you speak with your friend? If that custom table I posted doesn't work, and we can't get a custom table to work, then it means that the PRO-96 won't work with rebanded systems.

I've been pretty busy lately, but let me see if I can free up some time and work on a custom table from scratch.

Thanks,

Warren