Johnson County

[WA9JGB]

Roaming

I remember those old radios. Some are still in use. The roaming thing wasn't that big of a deal to some, but others it was a nightmare. Back when the system first was enabled I remember being in dead spots all over the County. Greenwood quickly went back, and then a new tower appeared. Driving from my house to Greenwood I would manually put the radio to the Greenwood tower. What a pain that was. With my 2500 I can go just about anywhere I want and hear my local tg's with no problems. It scans the towers with no effort bt the user. Inside of the Mall and Sam's Club is just about the only 2 buildings I have reception issues.

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Op94 & 48528

It seems Greenwood/WRT Fire have retained 41GFD OP94 (decimal 288) as an analog operations talkgroup. It was in use for training yesterday. This would make sense, as Johnson County retained analog Fireground 3 and 4. So, better keep this one in your scan lists!

Also, has anyone identified what TG (decimal) 48528 is used for yet? This is one of the new Johnson County talkgroups that I still show as unidentified use.

 

[WA9JGB]

It seems Greenwood/WRT Fire have retained 41GFD OP94 (decimal 288) as an analog operations talkgroup. It was in use for training yesterday. This would make sense, as Johnson County retained analog Fireground 3 and 4. So, better keep this one in your scan lists!

Also, has anyone identified what TG (decimal) 48528 is used for yet? This is one of the new Johnson County talkgroups that I still show as unidentified use.

48528 is BFD-OPS 1 Digital

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Firehouse Alerting

I have noticed that (decimal) talkgroup 896, used for MOSCAD firehouse alerting, has not been active on the Greenwood site since November 26. Anybody know if MOSCAD is still in use, and if so, has it moved, or has the TG just been trespassed from the Greenwood site?

 

[WA9JGB]

I have noticed that (decimal) talkgroup 896, used for MOSCAD firehouse alerting, has not been active on the Greenwood site since November 26. Anybody know if MOSCAD is still in use, and if so, has it moved, or has the TG just been trespassed from the Greenwood site?

I am not sure about the TG being used, but MOSCAD is still in use. GFD and FFD both use the MOSCAD.
Whiteland Fire will start using MOSCAD once the License issue is taken care of. I do know the main server is located down here in the County Dispatch center, and maybe it's going through the Franklin site.

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Okay, I just heard it in use on the Franklin site. Its probably been restricted to one site, which makes sense, because whenever a site would go into site trunking, all the stations that were using the talkgroup through that site would lose their MOSCAD firehouse alerting. This way, even if Franklin does go into site trunking, the TG will still work through that site so long as all the station MOSCAD radios are affiliated with Franklin, which I'm betting is how it's now set up.

 

[WA9JGB]

Okay, I just heard it in use on the Franklin site. Its probably been restricted to one site, which makes sense, because whenever a site would go into site trunking, all the stations that were using the talkgroup through that site would lose their MOSCAD firehouse alerting. This way, even if Franklin does go into site trunking, the TG will still work through that site so long as all the station MOSCAD radios are affiliated with Franklin, which I'm betting is how it's now set up.

That is my guess.

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Also there are 4 more tg's that are not identified

My guess is BFD-Admin
NWFD-Admin
Trafalgar-Admin
EFD-Admin
The 4 that are left to identify is 48176, 48384, 48512, and 48480

It looks as if all Digital tg's have been identified now except the 4 that are left.

As of today, I'm still showing these four as unidentified, and I'm figuring the above list is what they almost have to be, just don't know what goes with what. Anybody got anything new?

Also I'm fairly sure 48544 is 41 BFD OP2 digital voice. Don't know if anybody else has identified that one or not.

 

[WA9JGB]

As of today, I'm still showing these four as unidentified, and I'm figuring the above list is what they almost have to be, just don't know what goes with what. Anybody got anything new?

Also I'm fairly sure 48544 is 41 BFD OP2 digital voice. Don't know if anybody else has identified that one or not.

Here are BFD's Digital Tg's

BFD-DSP 48000
BFD-OP1 48528
BFD-OP2 48544
BFD-Adm ???

 

[DiGiTaLD]

Pretty sure 48384 is 41NWFD ADM.

 

[WA9JGB]

Pretty sure 48384 is 41NWFD ADM.

They did there annual Santa Parade in the town tonight. If they were ever going to be on it tonight would have been the night to catch it. I was working in Dispatch and was unable to listen to the scanner.

48384 was one of the 4 or 5 that needed to be identified.
Good catch and thanks for posting.

 

[DiGiTaLD]

48176

I think 48176 will be the new Bargersville Fire Admin or OP3, but not 100% sure until it actually goes into use.

Lately, I have heard the analog admin group referred to on the air as "OP3"; I think it's designation may have changed from an admin group to another operations group.