Looks like 11341 is Sheriff Dispatch. 11367 may be County Fire Dispatch.
Cherokee Co SC selects a new radio system
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Which site would be the best to monitor to pickup the most traffic for Cherokee County?
Depending on your location but I would assume Site 417-Thickety Mt, Site 408-Blacksburg or Site 407-Gaffney would carry most of the traffic
417 is the original site and is the one I was monitoring earlier. I haven't verified what traffic is being carried on 407 and 408 yet, but I assume most talkgroups are carried on all three sites most of the time. We'll need to confirm that over time.
Most Cherokee talkgroups will probably have units affiliating with those three site quite regularly. I would agree with you in regards to 11341 and 11367.
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I have a question can you get the new channels for Cherokee Co on a Uniden BCD536 HP scanner?
Yes, as long as you have the NXDN option activated.
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Oh I have no idea how to do that as I am new to this scanner.. I have always used the old analog ones..
You have to order a license key from Uniden (which costs $$) and then apply the key to the scanner using a computer.
Christmas Eve night around 8:00pm might be a great time to leave your SDR sticks running. Cherokee County 911 typically does a BOLO broadcast for Santa Clause across all of their channels around that time. I assume that tradition will continue this year, which should make it easy to locate any others that might be out there.
Lots of traffic today with the bad weather, so I was able to identify a few other talk groups. Some are still unknown in nature though as there were just associations, with no voice traffic.
At one point they made reference to switching to "Fire TAC 2" during some rescues from an apartment unit threatened by rising water. Based on the traffic that ensued I believe 11369 to be "Fire TAC 2".
Fire units were also detected on 11370 with voice traffic. Just speculation but this could be a TAC 3 channel?
There also were associations with radio ID's consistent with those assigned to Cherokee County on talk groups 11371, 11374, 11375, 11378, 11379, and 11381
One Medic unit was detected on 11397 as well.
11648 also had traffic coming from Cherokee County. It sounds like public works possibly as they were discussing trees down, etc.
At one point they made reference to switching to "Fire TAC 2" during some rescues from an apartment unit threatened by rising water. Based on the traffic that ensued I believe 11369 to be "Fire TAC 2".
Fire units were also detected on 11370 with voice traffic. Just speculation but this could be a TAC 3 channel?
There also were associations with radio ID's consistent with those assigned to Cherokee County on talk groups 11371, 11374, 11375, 11378, 11379, and 11381
One Medic unit was detected on 11397 as well.
11648 also had traffic coming from Cherokee County. It sounds like public works possibly as they were discussing trees down, etc.
I discovered a new site in Cherokee County this past weekend. This one is located in Draytonville. It's now listed in the database as site 418.
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Just wanted to give thanks for the work y’all have put into researching this system! After starting a hobby of learning about trunked systems, I spent several weeks of pulling my hair out to figure out NXDN since most other agencies in our area utilize P25 (and the “easy” software caters to most all other protocols, neglecting NXDN).
I’ve recently started a Broadcastify feed monitoring Cherokee County Sheriff, EMS, Fire and Gaffney PD: Cherokee County Public Safety Live Audio Feed
I’ve recently started a Broadcastify feed monitoring Cherokee County Sheriff, EMS, Fire and Gaffney PD: Cherokee County Public Safety Live Audio Feed
What software did you land on?
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I’m using DSD+ FastLane atm; it works pretty well but was a bit of a pain to configure properly/to my liking.
It appears based on local reports Cherokee has started encrypting some talk groups at least. I haven't had a chance to listen much lately, but reports say one Sheriff's channel is encrypted for SWAT (understandable). That may be one that isn't listed in the database at all though- not sure. Some reports say the EMS to Hospital channel is now encrypted as well. I will try to listen more over the holidays and pinpoint.
On the bright side it appears they've taken over providing the official Broadcastify feed though, which seems to indicate they're not 100% opposed to public listening. That's a positive step compared to many counties that just flip the big "E" switch and leave everything in the dark.
On the bright side it appears they've taken over providing the official Broadcastify feed though, which seems to indicate they're not 100% opposed to public listening. That's a positive step compared to many counties that just flip the big "E" switch and leave everything in the dark.
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