Allegany County

[wbw]

Does anyone know what these are used for? They are also listed in Mineral County,WV

ALLEGANY COUNTY (WQCI629)

453.18750000

453.36250000

453.51250000

453.53750000

453.58750000

458.18750000

458.58750000

 

[lawman349]

Med radio, maybe?

 

[Al42]

Does anyone know what these are used for? They are also listed in Mineral County,WV

ALLEGANY COUNTY (WQCI629)

453.18750000

453.36250000

453.51250000

453.53750000

453.58750000

458.18750000

Input for 453.1875

458.58750000

Input for 453.5875

They're licensed to the county - see http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=fcc&cs=WQCI629. As to what department or agency will be using them, or what they'll be using them for, you'd have to ask the county or listen and figure it out. If you do, you can be the one that provides the update for the database.

 

[Whistler]

It looks like only one possible repeater pair on these frequencies. Allegany County is in the process of going to a trunking system for Fire and EMS. As the story has it the system will link Garrett, Allegany, and Washington on a trunked system. These may be the possible frequencies for this system. They have rumored to allow access for each company to have a code to use the system for company communications as well. I will look into this a little more because I am interested myself.

 

[Whistler]

It looks like only one possible repeater pair on these frequencies. Allegany County is in the process of going to a trunking system for Fire and EMS. As the story has it the system will link Garrett, Allegany, and Washington on a trunked system. These may be the possible frequencies for this system. They have rumored to allow access for each company to have a code to use the system for company communications as well. I will look into this a little more because I am interested myself.

 

[ambdrvr]

These frequencies are for county fire/ems interoperability. The county has placed 2 repeaters in place in the county, one on knobley mountain (453.5875/458.5875) and one on Haystack Mountain at the water tank (453.1875/458.1875). These repeaters will be used for fire and EMS to communicate in those local areas. There will probably be more of these sites going into place prior to the LTR system that is coming. As for the other frequencies listed, they are mobile to mobile and no exact description of these channels has been listed yet. Hope this helps

 

[ka3jjz]

I posted a question about the possible trunk system over on the Scan Hagerstown Yahoo group, and I have heard that such a system has been talked about for a few years, but nothing has ever come of it.
It will be interesting to see if such a system ever develops.

73s Mike

 

[wbw]

Thanks for the info Ambdrv. Who is using the interop freqs or are they just being implemented

Do you know when the LTR system is to happen? What agencies will participate?

I read last week the county had contracted with a consulting firm to do a study and develop a report that describes radio needs

 

[ambdrvr]

So far LaVale Fire, LaVale Rescue, Cresaptown Fire/EMS and District 16 are participating in the interoperability. Each of these companies with the exception of LaVale Rescue set up cross-band repeaters in their equipment for the old lowband system. The county is looking into a updated LTR system which they do have some monies for. This LTR system probably won't see the light of day for at least a year, but it will happen eventually. They county is going to attempt to move all county communications to the UHF LTR system. That's all I know right now, I don't know how fast or how far into the study the consulting firm is, all I know is they are looking hard at UHF for everything. Hope this helps and if there's anything else I'd try my best to help. Post any other questions and I'll try to answer or email me directly .