Hoover PD frequencies / RPS frequency

[SCPD]

I was wanting to know if anyone knows what all of the frequencies that Hoover PD uses? I know channels 1 -3 but I have heard them say go to channel 5 does anyone know what the additionals frequencies are? Also does anyone know what the freq(s) RPS (ambulance service) is?

Thank you,

Craig N5XNQ

 

[dave911]

Most of the ambulances in the Birmingham area are on Southern Linc. I don't know if all of them are, and I'm not sure that RPS is, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.

I don't hear them on their old frequencies anymore.

 

[SCPD]

Thank you for the reply Dave, I was not sure if RPS had gone to Southern Linc or not.

Craig

 

[Justin]

RPS Ambulance does use Southern Linc on fleet 55 (BREMSS Fleet). They also have a VHF simplex frequency of 155.2650 Mhz. The base is at Bluff Park. Excellent simplex coverage all over Jefferson and Shelby counties. It also has a UHF bi-directional link where a UHF control station is used to talk thru it remotely from their dispatch.

Hoover Police Ch 5 is a simplex frequency if I remember correctly. I'll have to pull some codeplug data to find it for you. Gimme a couple days.

-Justin

 

[SCPD]

Thanks Justin

Thank you for the information Justin. Since I live just down the street from Bluff Park I should have no problem receiving the base. I have only been able to figure out channels 1 - 3 but have not been able to find the others.

Craig N5XNQ

 

[EMS-1]

RPS FREQUENCIES

the UHF bi-directional link frequency is 460.525 you can only hear Ambulance to Base one way transmissions over it. they are also licensed for 155.175 and 155.220 which they no longer use. they too may use the old Am Care Frequencies for Saint Clair County and Birmingham which are 462.950,467.950 and 467.925,462.925 thanks and have a blessed day "the Ayatollah of Motorola" Carl

 

[dave911]

"Ayatollah of Motorola" You haven't changed one bit, Carl. hee hee

I don't think they use the old St. Clair freq's, either. I have them in my scanner but there's never any traffic. And as for 155.175, I don't think I've heard anything on that one in years.

Who would have dreamed 15 years ago that the only place you can listen to an ambulance around here would be on a fire department radio (Homewood, Shelby911)?

 

[Justin]

UHF Freqs

The UHF Bham and St. Clair County frequencies that AmCare / StClair EMS used are actually licensed to GTS Communications, if I remember correctly. There is one site in Bham and another site on Bald Rock Mountian in St. Clair county. The repeaters had a multi-tone repeater panel on them and there were other users on the Bham repeater besides AmCare. When RPS bought AmScare last year they stopped using those and there has not been any traffic on them since. The repeaters were still up and functional the last time I checked tho....but that has been several months back.

The UHF link frequency that RPS had used to be between their Shelby County dispatch facility in Saginaw and Bluff park. There no longer exists an RPS dispatch in Shelby County. I would guess if you are in the path of the pattern of the yagi antenna between Saginaw and Bluff Park that you would be able to hear traffic on that frequency. I know the antenna on the Saginaw end was directional, and I am fairly certian the antenna on the Bluff Park end was directional as well. If it is still used you should be able to hear a "repeat" of everything the VHF reciever at Bluff Park hears go out on that link frequency; so both the units and the dispatcher.

I am unsure if the link is a simplex or duplex link. If Carl is only hearing unit-to-base transmissions on 460.525 then check the transmit repeater pair of 465.525 and I would bet it is likely you will hear the dispatch-to-unit traffic on that frequency. Sometimes when agencies are licensed to a repeater pair and they want to utilize it and not loose the pair they are utilized in that manner to avoid having the pair re-assigned to another user.

I am also uncertian how the dispatch office that is now in Jasper keys up the VHF transmitter at Bluff park, whether it is by tone remote or bi-directional link of some kind. There is still traffic on the VHF system in Jefferson and Walker Counties from time to time, but the majority of their traffic is on Souther Linc.

-Justin

Archbishop, Church of /\/\otorola

 

[DARRELL]

Hoover PD Channel 5 is 453.025.

 

[tehester]

I worked in dispatch at RPS about 7 or 8 years ago when they went to the SouthernLinks at that time we practically cutout all vhf trafic except for at rare times. Since then I know they have greatly improved the dispatch center in the main office in Jasper and I am sure they are probably sticking to the SouthernLink or something simular (or even better). Although I have not lived in the area for about 5 years now I still try to keep up with what is going on.

With patient confidentiallity becoming such a big concern you will probably have more ambulance services who are using these networks.

Tim

 

[jerrien]

can anyone help me with hoover pd frequency i,am new with the pro96.

 

[jerrien]

hoover pd fre

can anyone help me with geting hoover pd fre i can only get the fd department.

 

[SAR923]

I'm not in the Birmingham area but, assuming the frequncies are correct at http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&ctid=37, it looks like Hoover PD is on conventional UHF. If you can get the FD, you should be able to get the PD using the frequencies in the link.

 

[FIREFIGHTERN256]

I have spoken with several current RPS employees, they use Southern Linc as there main source of dispatch, will revert back to VHF if SL service is unavailable, or if for some reason SL goes down as it tends to do in the Shelby area.