Durham Fire question

[yorkphotog]

Hey guys..

I'm working on a new scan list for Durham Fire...but I don't listen to them very often to know the in-and-outs of the system. Because you can only scan 10 channels on a Moto, I'm trying to figure out exactly which channels should be part of the list. Obviously there's the dispatch channels (Oshawa/Whitby and Pickering/Ajax) but I'm not sure how many of the tac channels are used.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[yorkphotog]

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[Jay911]

Sorry to revive such an ancient topic, but hopefully my contribution isn't too late..

Pickering seems to do 99% of its comms on PTAC 2. Ajax is on ATAC 1. I believe the "dispatch channels" are mainly for alerting the stations initially.

This comes from ~5 days of Unitrunker observations last week. I happen to have files saved including a lot of radios having been identified and hit counts for radios and talkgroups. They were generated using the latest version of Unitrunker, but should be readable by a human (and are fairly easily converted to comma-separated-values for import into a spreadsheet).

If you or anyone else wants them, let me know!

 

[torontokris]

And north Durham is on Fleetnet so that will be out if your using a 800mhz moto.

 

[exkalibur]

I'll throw my T88 onto the Durham system (assuming I can hear the CC from my place) and let it ride for a week or two. I'd like to have them in as well, but again the scanlist thing...

You have a Spectra do you not? They'll do 15+1 in a scanlist, as will as XTS3000/Astro Saber.

 

[Jay911]

Here's my 401D system from Unitrunker. It shouldn't be too hard to hand-wrangle into a format that other programs use. If anyone has issues, I can make it a series of CSV files and/or an OpenOffice or Excel spreadsheet.

 

[smason]

This comes from ~5 days of Unitrunker observations last week.

Wow, you must have really upgraded your antenna system!

 

[Jay911]

Heh! Actually I spent a weekend at Mosport in Clarington, and a week in the southwest corner of Whitby at a friend's place. Had a fun time.

 

[exkalibur]

Yeah, Durham is deaf as a door knob at my place...an IFR hooked up to a rood antenna is only showing a VERY slight signal above the noise floor.

I'll see if I can do some monitoring out that way on wed/thurs.