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hey anybody got a clue on what sounds like turkey caller/scrambled tones on chiton county fire it starts around 4:00 or 5:00 am on 154.325 i have the correct pl tone so i know its them

do they use this freq for wx sirens cause the sound is like what my ema uses to poll data from sirens here thanks
 

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Chilton County Fire

I have no idea what the "noise" is. I have heard it as late as 6:00 A.M. while on my way home from work. The only "guess" I have would be that it is some type of "maintenance" or "testing" of the radios/radio system, but that really doesn't make much sense to me.
 

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it's not digital
they are on a convent system its some kind of data stream or something like that
 

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The radio system may not be digital but said data stream almost certainly is. :)

That site has a recording of everything from Morse code to MDT telemetry, so if its a semi-common format they will probably have it.
 

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chitlton county fire

i dont know then the system is convent.they are vhf ,
it sounds like a turkey caller or scrambling i hear the same sound on my cable system some time
i just might call the radio shop that handles them and ask them or find a ff
 

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What you are hearing is DTMF signaling. Touch tones, like on a telephone. They use about 6 or 7 DTMF tones sent at a fast rate to control and test the weather sirens in the county. I think they run a test each day around 6am. The 911 dispatch send out the tones on the main fire repeater and each siren replys back the same way.
 

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chiton county

thank you :

i had a feeling that is what it was so the county uses the fire freq to set off the warn sirens to huh
very interesting
 

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They have been doing this for several years. The tests are delayed if there is an active call in progress on the fire freq. The city of Clanton uses the same system but there sirens are on 155.040 They did test them at midnight and 6am. About a year ago on a nice clear night they hit the wrong button and set off a tornado warning at midnight. Not a cloud in the sky.
 

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thanks can you give me an updated freq list for chilton county plz with pl tones also the unit numbers i have an outdated list
 

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I will try to post that list for you this weekend. I have a friend at the radio shop in Clanton. I will try to get him to give me a new list, I know there has been some freq. added in the last year or so.
 

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Sorry for the delay. The most used frequncies in chilton county are:
155.595 pl 114.8 Chilton county sheriff dept. Also Maplesville PD Thorsby PD and Jemison PD
155.535 and 158.805 are also used by the sheriff dept sometimes on special details. mobile and handhelds only at this time.
151.025 pl 114.8 Clanton PD
154.325 pl 141.3 Chilton County Rural fire departments Dispatch and main channel
158.835 pl 203.5 Clanton Fire dispatch and main channel
155.790 pl 114.8 Clanton fireground
154.295 pl 225.7 Uniongrove vfd
154.9875 pl 192.8 Chilton co. EMA
153.425 pl 141.3 Chilton Water
155.4075 pl 203.5 East chilton VFD Fireground comm.
151.985 pl 141.3 Collins Chapel VFD

Unit numbers are: Law enforcement
Chilton sheriff dept: Alpha-xx Administration sheriff ect.
Delta xx Sheriff dept officers
kilo xx officers with drug dogs
Ida xx Investigators
Clanton PD 2xx
Thorsby PD 3xx
Jemison PD 4xx
Maplesville 5xx
Rural Fire depts:
Thorsby fire , station 3 units 3xx
Jemison fire , station 4 units 4xx
Maplesville fire , station 5 units 5xx
Union Grove vfd , station 7 units 7xx
Fairview vfd , station 8 units 8xx
East Chilton , station 9 units 9xx
Collins Chapel vfd , station 11 units 11xx
West Chilton vfd , station 12 units 12xx
Enterprise vfd , station 13 units 13xx
South Chilton vfd , station 14 units 14xx
Isabella vfd , station 15 units 15xx
Verbena vfd , station 16 units 16xx
Gap of the Mountian vfd , station 17 Units 17xx
North Chilton vfd , station 18 units 18xx
Ceder Grove vfd , station 19 units 19xx

All the county vfd units are dispatched on 154.325

Anything else? Ask and I will see what I can find.
 

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The dispatch seldom uses any 10 codes or any other codes. They have gone to plain language transmissions on police and fire dispatches. It has been this way for about a year I think. If it is anything they dont want the public to hear they use SouthernLinc.
 
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