Getting AFD from Group ID?

[rdale]

I talked to the people responsible for my county's new EDACS system and they sent me a list of talkgroup names/uses but say they do not have the corresponding AFS or decimal talkgroup designations. The response is that MA/Com does not even have them, they used the "GID" (group ID) numbers to program the fleet/subfleet info and it does not correspond to the AFS structure.

Is that true? If so, could there really be no "official" list of AFS ID's?

- Rob

 

[WCRadioGuy]

Where are you located?

 

[rdale]

Not sure I understand how that would affect things - but as listed in my Location: I'm in MI.

 

[nhiester]

the GIDs are Decimal format. If you have the master list, you can set it up in the AFS on a spreadsheet if you need that format. Most folks just use the decimal format. Programmer software only uses Decimal format now.

 

[nhiester]

As far a matching up with the AFS structure, that depends on how they have the global fleetmap setup. There are many possibilities for this format.

 

[rdale]

So are you saying that I can convert from their decimal GID to AFS, or not?

 

[n0doz]

There used to be a chart on the internet somewhere (and I think it was possibly on a site administered by N9JIG) that showed every possible EDACS group ID in hex, decimal, and AFS. Ran several pages, as you might guess, but well worth having on your computer.

 

[nhiester]

You can figure out AFS from decimal if you know the number of Agencies and the number of Fleets in each agency. (You can have a different number of Fleets in each agency)

 

[rdale]

Thanks - I'll just ask them to provide the list and see what I can do with it. I'm not sure what the GID is, if it just is a "code" for decimal I guess we'll be set.

 

[scannerfreak]

There used to be a chart on the internet somewhere (and I think it was possibly on a site administered by N9JIG) that showed every possible EDACS group ID in hex, decimal, and AFS. Ran several pages, as you might guess, but well worth having on your computer.

This is the list in question..Not sure if it will help you Rob, But you can take a look and see..

 

[DaveNF2G]

AFS isn't really part of the EDACS standard. It's a Uniden invention.

 

[SCPD]

It doesnt matter how many agencies there are or anything ... there is a direct AFS value for each of the numeric values.

For example: Numeric 547 = 04-043 in AFS Value

If you search on google there are numerous conversion tools out there. I didnt look at the file above .. but it may be all in there.

 

[rdale]

Thanks - the GID ends up just being the decimal equivalent. MACOM told the agency in question that the GID had no bearing on anything you could put into the scanner, which is why we had the questions. But it worked fine entered as decimal, or converted to AFS...

 

[Stimp0]

Here's a conversion page:

http://www.mjw.com/scanner/convert.htm