Monroe, Crawford County GA Fire Frequencies

[charlesdotcc]

Hi guys,
I was thinking of adding a Monroe and Crawford County scanner feed to the current Macon system I have running, but I'd like to find out if anybody can confirm the frequencies listed in the database are still active. The database is showing the following channels:

Crawford - 154.175
Monroe - 154.220, 159.465

I'm out of the area right now so I can't check - does anyone regularly monitor these and can confirm whether or not these are current? Thanks!

-Charles

 

[mjbjr]

i meant to do this last night and totally forgot. I will plug them into mine tomorrow sometime and will see whats heard.You able to listen during the day?

 

[Napsterbater]

I can confirm that Crawford Fire Dispatch is on 154.175, we can (could) hear them in Baldwin county in our trucks and base radios very clear.

And they can hear us, well now just our Moto Trbo.

 

[charlesdotcc]

Ok, great, thanks for the info!

 

[mjbjr]

Im just curious,can you pick up Monroe from Macon (Bibb county) with just the radio antenna? Seems pretty far,but worth a shot to ask.

 

[mjbjr]

Charles,did you ever get a scanner up there?

 

[charlesdotcc]

Hi guys,
@mjbjr - I just got them programmed tonight and I'm listening now to see what I get. I'm not sure if you could get the adjoining counties with just the factory antenna or not, although I'm up in a corner of Bibb so I'm somewhat close to both, so I would think there's a chance, sure. I am using an outdoor antenna, though.

I'll let you know what I find, however I've already found an odd issue -
@Napsterbater , I'm hearing short, regular data bursts (about 1/2 second long, every 1 second or so) on 154.175. Any idea what this might be? Any chance they've gone to some odd digital format?

One thing I can tell already - I get Twiggs Co Sheriff loud and clear.

-Charles

 

[Napsterbater]

That probably us (Baldwin County Fire Rescue), we are using Moto Trbo on that frequency, us and Crawford have allways (well since about the 80's) have heard each other, now they (you) can here our Trbo Signal.

 

[charlesdotcc]

Oh, no kidding? I'm surprised they'd put two jurisdictions so close to each other on the same frequency. I see what you meant by your earlier comment about them hearing your Trbo.

I'll keep listening then to see if I hear some analog. Thanks.

-Charles

 

[Napsterbater]

Well like I said it was the 80's and neither one complained because with PL tones its wasn't really a problem, We were assigned a 2nd pair of frequencies recently for the 2nd repeater of our trbo system only to have it interfere with McDuffie county GA's Keenwood Nexedge system, and we were forced to shut it down pending a new frequency assignment.

 

[rce149]

How is that turbo working for you in Baldwin

 

[SCPD]

MotoTRBO and NEXEDGE in VHF

MotoTRBO and NEXEDGE work great in VHF, but these digital systems are causing interference issues all over our State and the number of complaints continue to grow. The digital signals emitted in VHF and UHF travel much farther than analog, some as far as more than halfway across our State, thus causing major interference problems eight to ten counties away where there were no interference problems when both agencies using the same frequency were using analog. Local radio shops are marketing these two digital products to both local government and private sector agencies then once the contract is signed they make application to the FCC by simply adding the new emission designator without considering true propagation of the digital signals and are not reducing the originally licensed output power of the base stations or repeaters. The FCC is simply approving these license modifications to add the new emission designators and this is causing huge problems especially for those agencies who have decided to simply narrowband their existing frequencies and remain analog. My prediction is if this problem is allowed to continue the complaints will mount and agencies who have been happy using analog equipment in the VHF and UHF bands will be forced vacate these frequency bands. I truly hope this does not happen.