Bell & Coryell Counties

[Ensnared]

I don't work in Belton anymore. Therefore, I am no longer monitoring Bell P25 or Copperas Cove P25.

However, yesterday, I was traveling near Killeen & received an encrypted transmission on talk group 41569. Previously, I entered talk group 45109 for Copperas Cove PD. I must have been in an altered state of consciousness when I did so. I will go and see if someone posted talk group 45109 as PD.

I heard the usual chatter on Bell P25 SO talk groups. Yesterday was the first time I've heard Temple PD in a very long time. I suppose time spent in Bell County is rather brief. So, I was pleased as punch to hear Temple PD talk group 51194.

 

[garys]

I was up there earlier this month at the Belton Ham Fest. The only LE traffic I heard was records and warrant checks on one of the SO channels.

I should probably check my SDS200 programming as looking at the RRDB it looks like a lot less is encrypted than I previously thought. Or I have something else programmed incorrectly.

 

[Ensnared]

I was up there earlier this month at the Belton Ham Fest. The only LE traffic I heard was records and warrant checks on one of the SO channels.

I should probably check my SDS200 programming as looking at the RRDB it looks like a lot less is encrypted than I previously thought. Or I have something else programmed incorrectly.

That is why I wish the RRDB was more accurate. I still have some unknown talk groups I learned about when I was analyzing Temple PD shortly after ProVoice was an upgrade option. Temple PD was oblivious to the changes because they were running their mouths.

There are some talk groups I've refrained from submitting because I could not identify the agency.

After converting the EDACS into P25 talk groups, I added these to Bell P25. I will send you a list of these talk groups that are not documented in the RRDB.

Let me know if you want me to send via "conversation" or even an email address.

Yes, I was shocked to hear Temple PD c/c talk group jump up in the recording I made.

 

[garys]

I would appreciate that. A conversation is fine. I don't get up to that area all that often, but I have Bell County programmed in and it might as well be accurate.

I have found RRDB a good starting point when starting programming for an area with which I am not familiar. Which is most of Texas in my case. I have found that for Williamson County there are some inaccuracies and I've been commenting on them in that thread. I don't want to drift into a "The RRDB could be better" thread because after all it is built on member submissions.

In the "running their mouths" category when the first big 800 Trunk system was built in the late 1980s in MA, there were four frequencies that were available to some users for phone calls. The users were told that trunked systems couldn't be listened to. Some hilarity ensued when users would call a spouse to say they were working late, then called their girlfriends.

That is why I wish the RRDB was more accurate. I still have some unknown talk groups I learned about when I was analyzing Temple PD shortly after ProVoice was an upgrade option. Temple PD was oblivious to the changes because they were running their mouths.

There are some talk groups I've refrained from submitting because I could not identify the agency.

After converting the EDACS into P25 talk groups, I added these to Bell P25. I will send you a list of these talk groups that are not documented in the RRDB.

Let me know if you want me to send via "conversation" or even an email address.

Yes, I was shocked to hear Temple PD c/c talk group jump up in the recording I made.