I managed to get a PC/SDRTrunk/Airpsy R2 setup monitoring the Ellis County site on NTIRN. I'm in NW Bedford, so it's a bit of a stretch. I've only had it going since Friday night. I've found a couple of talk groups that are new to me.
One that I haven't heard enough traffic on to confirm is 7852. I believe it's probably a county-wide landing zone channel. However, I've heard two instances in my vast 3.5 days of monitoring where ground units (Palmer and Red Oak, I believe), were calling for air medical on the channel without any response from the bird. In both cases they ended up going to V-MED 28 or V-FIRE 21. I also was hearing an repeated .6 second tone on it earlier today. On Saturday there was a Palmer unit on 7853, and I believe he was trying to set up communications with an inbound helo, but may have been on the wrong channel.
If anyone else can confirm or correct my assumptions, please do.
Thanks in Advance & Happy Scanning!
Ben
One that I haven't heard enough traffic on to confirm is 7852. I believe it's probably a county-wide landing zone channel. However, I've heard two instances in my vast 3.5 days of monitoring where ground units (Palmer and Red Oak, I believe), were calling for air medical on the channel without any response from the bird. In both cases they ended up going to V-MED 28 or V-FIRE 21. I also was hearing an repeated .6 second tone on it earlier today. On Saturday there was a Palmer unit on 7853, and I believe he was trying to set up communications with an inbound helo, but may have been on the wrong channel.
If anyone else can confirm or correct my assumptions, please do.
Thanks in Advance & Happy Scanning!
Ben