Any Analog Frequencies Remaining in Jackson County?

[The-Ham-ster]

My neighbor handed me an analog BC346XT handheld scanner from 2009 and asked me to program all the interesting frequencies for Jackson county Michigan. He moved here from Texas. Looks like the whole Michigan public safety sector has gone over to digital MPSCS and except for airport, weather, and ham repeaters, he is out of luck. Is that correct? Anything else interesting I could program on analog for him? The neighbor is going to ask if he should buy a digital-capable scanner. How much of Jackson county police, fire, and other emergency services have gone encrypted?

 

[tvengr]

Welcome to the forums!

The database shows that Jackson County and City PD Dispatch and some other law enforcement talkgroups on MPSCS are currently in the clear to receive. Talkgroups with Mode DE are fully encrypted and cannot be received by any scanner. Fire and EMS are in the clear.

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Jackson County (38) Law Enforcement​

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description	Tag
1171	493	D	38DRUG	Countywide Narcotics Enforcement Common	Law Tac
1237	4d5	D	38P911	County Police Dispatch	Law Dispatch
11169	2ba1	D	38JCPD911	Jackson City Police Dispatch	Law Dispatch
11170	2ba2	DE	38JACPTAC	Jackson City Police Tactical	Law Tac
11171	2ba3	D	38FRCOURT	Friend Of The Court	Law Talk
11193	2bb9	D	38COURT	12th District Court	Law Talk
11194	2bba	D	38LEIN	County LEIN	Law Talk
11195	2bbb	D	38CT	Columbia Twp. Police Proprietary	Law Talk
11196	2bbc	D	38BT	Blackman Twp. DPS Proprietary	Law Talk
11197	2bbd	D	38JCPDLEIN	Jackson City LEIN	Law Talk
11204	2bc4	DE	38DET TAC	Detective TAC	Law Tac
11205	2bc5	DE	38JCPDTAC	Jackson City Police Tactical	Law Tac
11206	2bc6	DE	38DET	Countywide Detectives	Law Tac

The Jackson County site on MPSCS is Simulcast. The only scanners specifically designed to receive simulcast sites are the Uniden SDS100 handheld and SDS200 base/mobile. Any other scanner may experience simulcast distortion depending upon its location in relation to the towers. That results in missed transmissions and garbled audio.

24 (18)	Jackson County Simulcast	Jackson	769.55625	769.93125	770.33125	771.03125	773.48125	774.23125	851.3375
			851.5625	851.775c	852.1875c	853.175c	853.550c	856.7125	861.2375
			861.2875	861.6375	861.9625

 

[gpp10x]

Jackson County, Michigan (MI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Jackson County, Michigan (MI)

www.radioreference.com

Airports (Jackson County) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Airports (Jackson County)

www.radioreference.com

The link above is Jackson County for the VHF/UHF freqs. You can try programming them to see if anything can be listened to.
The 2nd link is for Jackson Co. airport.

You might be able to try some freqs from Washtenaw & Calhoun counties also.

 

[RangerConlin]

As of right now no, there are no VHF public safety related frequencies - they have entirely migrated to MPSCS.

 

[RangerConlin]

In addition I'm working right now to update the MPSCS entries for Jackson Co. I know there's a large amount of unused or incorrect TGs listed in the database.

 

[Ronaldski]

In addition I'm working right now to update the MPSCS entries for Jackson Co. I know there's a large amount of unused or incorrect TGs listed in the database.

Additionally could you update the analog for Jackson for what's not in use, etc. Thanks!

 

[RangerConlin]

Unfortunately I'm only aware of the public safety related information - I can't speak for any of the school or other local government entries.