Florida Highway Road Trip

[PilotJoshua]

Heading from South Florida to Georgia. I'll be on I-95. I have an SDS 100 but without the GPS module. Since FHP is encrypted should I just scan the interop channels such as 8CALL, 8TAC & 155.370? I'll just be making gas stops along the way so I don't care much about the local traffic as I pass each county/city but only if they talk to FHP. For example, I've heard county receive traffic crashes and send them over.

 

[kd4efm]

Thats about it, other Dayton Beach area, most of the stuff is encrypted.

 

[Nasby]

Man I wouldn’t even waste my time hoping to hear a low power interop transmission. It’s a real shot in the dark and you’d be lucky to hear anything at all.
I’d just tune in to XM radio and drive safe.

 

[Bote]

Heading from South Florida to Georgia. I'll be on I-95.

Fire departments provide a heads-up of traffic jams ahead so that's what I monitor, what's left of them anyway.

Indian River County repeats their main fire talkgroup on 153.92MHz
Brevard County has a nasty sounding EDACS with 2 sites worth monitoring; check the forum for the status of their new P25 system. I can't wait until they find out how much more terrible that ringing bell sounds on the AMBE CODEC.

Florida East Coast Railway road channel is 160.53MHz with 160.77MHz used by trains to talk back to the dispatcher. If you're not in a rush you can mosey up Dixie Highway which parallels the tracks to break up the journey.

That's pretty much it these days since Florida considers citizens to be the enemy.

 

[N4DES]

Put PulsePoint in your phone and allow it to use your GPS and uncheck Medical Calls to help you with crash avoidance.

 

[PBGVOLFF]

Brevard has moved to P25 ENC.

Pulse point does work with GPS, but the notifications don’t change based on your location. The only departments that use Pulse Point along 95 from Georgia to South Florida is Brevard, and Palm Beach south.

 

[zlandmedia]

Just a reminder about Florida's scanner law (in case you are not familiar with it) but you cannot have the scanner in operation while driving unless you have a HAM license or are credentialed media.

You should be fine to turn it on while stopped, but not while in motion (again, if none of the exemptions apply to you).

 

[slowmover]

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Or you could actually stay ahead.
Active, not passive.

Seatbolt mount LIDO recent L-ML-MAX just made it easy.

It’s 2-3X times annually @ 300-days with serious problems daily I’ve been caught unawares. Cross-continent. And it’s much easier to re-route myself avoiding the herd following GMap, etc.

95 doesn’t carry the commercial traffic it did years ago. A consequence of off-shoring. But there’s plenty of men running regional know the score in their areas.

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[batdude]

I would recommend programming this system:

Public Safety Interoperable Communications Network (PSIC) Trunking System, Various, Florida

Public Safety Interoperable Communications Network (PSIC) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

and add the Interagency, ISSI and PSIC 1-15 TGs. This system is getting a little more use these days, especially with cross-jurisdiction incidents.

After Daytona, Flagler, St. Johns and Jax Fire/EMS is in the clear. Pretty much all LE now from Miami to GA on 95 is ENC. As mentioned above, Daytona (Volusia Co) is still primarily on their EDACS system.

Nassau Co. (north of Jax) is 100% ENC.

Georgia - GSP is 100% LTE now, unmonitorable. Camden Co (First County in GA on 95) just went to a new trunking system and is ENC for LE, but I hear Fire is in the clear. Next county up (Glynn Co) is 100% ENC.

have a safe trip.