Columbus, MS

[Avery93]

62123 is PHI Air Medical.

The other two fall in the range of other Lowndes County talkgroups. I'm betting 44329 is a Lowndes SO talkgroup. 44374 falls closer to the Lowndes county fire talkgroup range, but that doesn't mean it can't be something else.

Given that Columbus PD ran voice inversion scrambling on analog, I would expect them to run encryption on MSWIN.

 

[MississippiPI]

I heard that encrypted tg yesterday when I was in Columbus and locked it out.

 

[Hammerguy69]

So you are hearing no activity on either MSWIN site in Lowndes County, or you can't hear the control channels at all? There should be enough MSWIN users in the area to have a decent amount of activity.

RFSS	Site	Name	County	Freqs
2 (2)	021 (15)	Crawford	Lowndes	769.21875c	769.46875c	769.71875c	769.96875c	774.45625	774.73125
2 (2)	025 (19)	Columbus	Lowndes	771.50625	771.88125	774.03125c	774.28125c	774.53125c	774.78125c

The Columbus site is just north of the city, so it should cover pretty well. If anything, coverage might not be the best on the south or west end of town. The Crawford site probably doesn't cover the city well at all. It's too far south.

MSU is on the Oktibbeha County system, which is a Harris P25 upgrade of the original EDACS system that MSU and Oktibbeha County built out. Being a County owned system, they were able to build the system to provide more in-building coverage in their specific area. They have two sites just outside of Starkville that provide great coverage in town.

One small correction, MSU owns the P25 Harris system. They let Oktibbeha Co and Starkville on it but MSU owns and operates it.

 

[morrisr3nd]

Did anyone ever figure out the TG for Columbus PD? Are the encrypted?

 

[MississippiPI]

Not available yet that I know

 

[morrisr3nd]

I'm trying to pre program a scanner that i am selling. I just wanted to get it as close as possible.

 

[RMason]

FWIW: Here is a list of unidentified talkgroups in Columbus / Lowndes County in the 443xx range that I have logged. All are encrypted except 44372.

44315 E​

44329 E *​

44330 E​

44335 E​

44372​

44374 E *​

44375 E​

44376 E​

44377 E​

44379 E​

* The highest number of hits are on 44329 followed by 44374.

For reference, the talkgroups included in the db for Columbus / Lowndes are:

44314	Columbus Fire Department - Dispatch
44328	Sheriff Dispatch
44358 - 44360	Golden Triangle Regional Airport
44363 - 44371	County Fire