Listening to DPS
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If you are using the stock antenna that comes with the HP-2 you may very well have to upgrade. My HP-2 sat on the desk for a long time with nary a peep from DPS...put up an outside antenna and there they were.
Which frequencies are you trying to monitor them on? Their conventional channels listed under statewide agencies?
Or you trying to monitor their assigned talkgroups on SETRRS?
In many areas, including here in the DFW area, they rarely talk on their conventional frequencies. Most of their communications are done with the MDTs in their vehicle.
I didn't scroll down far enough to see the TGs on SETTRS! My idea of an external antenna may not apply, if you can receive the local tower for the SETRRS system. Other than programming the talkgroups for DPS there is no magic, just have to sit and listen. But as Steve said, unlike in the past the DPS radio traffic is greatly diminished!
On the SETRRS trunked system or the VHF conventional frequencies?
But do you also have SETRRS in the channels you are scanning? Looking at the location data for those two DPS talkgroups, it looks close to that of the Silsbee site.
Yes sir...they show talkgroups on the new SETRRS P25 system. I meant were you trying to hear DPS on THEIR VHF frequencies? DPS is TG 25 and 27! Make sure they are in your favorites list...if your current list is very active, build one with just those 2 in it and listen a bit.
On the SETRRS P25 system, TG 25 is DPS dispatch, 27 is Tac and there is an additional repeat of the Lufkin comms center on TG 4001. These are not under DPS but State of Texas on SETRRS.
Hope that works...
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Learn the TxDPS Callsign Structure and tune your ears to filter them on your Counties Law Enforcement talk groups.
Like Harold said, listen for Troopers on the county systems. It'll be a number (region) then a letter (sub region) then 3-4 more numbers that determine office and individual trooper. They have a handful of others. DPSXXX being the helicopter support. CID and Rangers have their own unique callsigns but I've only heard a Ranger ID once and the DPS dispatcher said something to the effect of "that's a ranger" in the broadcast.
I also agree with the above, get a quality antenna. For YEARS I couldn't get reliable traction on any of the DPS channels or repeaters, I got a decent scanner and there's a whole new world of listening there for me.
I also agree with the above, get a quality antenna. For YEARS I couldn't get reliable traction on any of the DPS channels or repeaters, I got a decent scanner and there's a whole new world of listening there for me.
You're gonna hear more on the county system. In lots of rural areas, they use TG on the county system because its more reliable than the VHF. Something about grants for radio systems required giving access to the system to the DPS! You should hear dispatch on two of the TGs, but again they aren't all that active, with many dispatch details handled on the MDT. In my county over west of Ft Worth, I almost never hear the units on the VHF frequencies, but rather active on the county TRS!
Are you using an outside antenna with the HP2? Doubtful you will hear the VHF channels without an outside antenna.
Are you using an outside antenna with the HP2? Doubtful you will hear the VHF channels without an outside antenna.
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There's a fair amount of chatter on the Mineral Wells channel. I've heard the Chisholm toll Troopers running traffic into the Mineral Wells office too. It seems to me in Parker County anyway that the Troopers are dispatched to accidents on the PCSO main channel and do everything else through the Mineral Wells comms office. A few Friday's ago, Willow Park PD had an incident going on that PCSO and DPS assisted with and DPS wasn't speaking directly to Willow Park.
I am in Aledo, not 100% sure where the repeater is but I'm close. So I am probably at a advantage hearing DPS.
If you look south from Willow Park/Ranch House Rd, the tallest antenna that you see, that's the one they are on. The Aledo repeater was always busiest with both sides of traffic when I worked out in Parker County.
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