Hey guys, I'm new here and some of your lingo is like Klingon to me, but I can share some insight into Franklin. (I gave up trying to program trunking into my 2052 when I lived in Portsmouth)
156.045 is their clear channel simulcast to activate pagers. It is page tone and page info only. The vollies carrying pagers hear nothing else. There is another freq I found that carries dispatch to/from mobiles and portables, clear channel chit chat similar to conventional VHF, 158.945.
Franklin is NOT merging with Southampton County or anyone else.
I work EMS in SoCo. Our new radios were never reprogrammed for Franklin's new freqs. We were told they were incompatible. When I suggested we just get receive freqs because I was getting them on my scanner, they just stared at me like I had grown a third eye. But my coworker, who vollies in Franklin, told me he heard their Asst Chief on the radio one day telling dispatch that he was using the "backup" system because the new system was down, however the transmission came through the new pager. So they have a way of patching that stuff together if they want to.
The official policy is that if we need to talk to Franklin, our dispatcher calls them and they switch over to our freq or mutual aid. Them boys is tight with their new toys!
I understand PD went to scrambled transmissions because the criminal element was making good use of scanner intelligence. Just because we are small town, don't think we don't have big problems. If y'all come to town, stay off South Street. Really!
