Frequency Help

[thenewsden]

I will be travelling the I-95 corridor from VA down into FL. I would like to monitor state police frequencies along the route. Can anyone provide assistance with which frequencies I can program in to monitor? Also looking further south into SC, GA, and FL. Thanks for any help.

 

[KM4WLV]

I will be travelling the I-95 corridor from VA down into FL. I would like to monitor state police frequencies along the route. Can anyone provide assistance with which frequencies I can program in to monitor? Also looking further south into SC, GA, and FL. Thanks for any help.

Best place to start is in the DataBase in the North Carolina Section. You may also want to post what type of scanner/radio you're using. If you're using software to program your scanner chances are someone here in the NC Forum will have / will help you make up a file to load up for your trip.

Give us a little more detail.....

 

[brian]

In South Carolina, SCHP uses the Palmetto 800 statewide trunked radio system. In the SC Section of the Wiki, you'll find a list of tower sites along the interstate routes that will tell you which sites to program. On the SCHP page in the wiki, it will tell you which counties are in which troops so you'll have an idea of which talkgroups to program.

Good luck and safe travels.

 

[ka3jjz]

You're also going to need Maryland, I believe - particularly if you're going to use the I-95 corridor, or come down I-83 to the beltway and down. For my area, a digital trunktracker is a must 73 Mike

 

[NCFire11]

He said VA to FL, doesnt include Maryland.

For NC you want to have

the following frequencies programmed into your scanner:


42.8000 North
42.5200
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42.8600 Middle
42.8200
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42.7000 South
42.5000
42.6800
42.9400

154.9200 Vehicular repeaters
155.4450 Car to Car
155.4750 NLEEC(our emergency channel for all agencies)
155.6800 Car to Car/Repeater


That should cover everything on the I95 corridor. Now most likely you wont be able to hear the actual cars key up on the radio but you will hear the base stations.

You can program the 800mhz into it but you most likely wont pick any of it up.

 

[CCHLLM]

NCSHP and NC law enforcement stuff

Well, let's see, 154.920 is the trooper's 5 watt portable radio input to the vehicular repeater. Pretty useless unless you're close to the unit. The vehicular repeater output is 155.445 with a PL of 131.8 and it repeats what the low band car radio is hearing. The 155.445 is what you'll need to hear the vehicle repeaters in the counties where the VHF units are still in use. Where the 800 MHz trunking system (VIPER) is in place and the troopers have been issued 800 portables, the troopers use the 800 MHz portable on the trunking system when out of the car. The vehicular repeaters are scarce in those counties.

154.680 with a PL of 131.8 is the VHF repeater system that once was used by NCSHP, but only a few are still on the air and those are multicasting the appropriate lowband dispatch in some areas where they're still in use.

155.475 may as well be non-existent as most LE agencies that even had or have VHF systems seemed to bypass adding that to their base, mobile, and portable radios, and those that do have it just don't seem to use it.

The low band is still the NCSHP primary radio system until the 800 MHz system is completed, so if you hear NCSHP traffic on either the low band or the 800 side, don't be alarmed if you only hear the dispatch side.

If the troopers are using the low band car radio, the mobile traffic is on a different channel than the dispatch side and neither the 800 system nor the low band system repeats their low band mobile traffic.

If the trooper is using his 800 MHz portable or mobile unit, then you'll hear both his traffic and the dispatch traffic on the 800 MHz trunking side.