Nashua fire dispatch frequency

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dwylie

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I have had one person ask me is why can't hear the
tone output or did they go silent. What I said was that
the frequency for dispatch is 151.250 as its announced during a daily tone test twice a day

Tone test is done at 0800 & 1800 HRS.

But the fire dispatch uses also with the police on

851.600 851.775 851.975. So either way the FD can be
hear on any channel listed here.
 

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851.600 / 851.775 / 851.975 are the digital freqs in that system. I wonder, can you program those freqs in ONLY, as long as you put the LCN numbers in? I can hear Nashua on those open nights. I remember about 6 or 7 years ago I was at Radio shack buying my pro 94. The employees started talking about Nashua re-band. Oh-you wont hear them anymore,they are phasing out. I knew nothing about trunking at the time. Well, with time and reading, I got into trunking. I kept asking myself " how do they PHASE OUT?" Well, their re-band came-and perfect timing. I bought a bcd396xt, programmed it according to wiki. I couldnt wait for an open night to try it. I went to a high spot and got a signal. I then examined the freqs on a conventional level. I noticed the analog freqs were sepparate from the p25 freqs. I thought to myself--if thats phasing out, then what do you sales reps call the reception I am getting? I say--know what you are selling, no guesses or rumors. $10.00 says they know EVERY feature on cell phones and mp3 players. Some of them cant even spell P.L... --my thoghts..
 

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Nashua is a "Motorola" trunk, LCN's are not used

851.600 / 851.775 / 851.975 are the digital freqs in that system. I wonder, can you program those freqs in ONLY, as long as you put the LCN numbers in? I can hear Nashua on those open nights. I remember about 6 or 7 years ago I was at Radio shack buying my pro 94. The employees started talking about Nashua re-band. Oh-you wont hear them anymore,they are phasing out. I knew nothing about trunking at the time. Well, with time and reading, I got into trunking. I kept asking myself " how do they PHASE OUT?" Well, their re-band came-and perfect timing. I bought a bcd396xt, programmed it according to wiki. I couldnt wait for an open night to try it. I went to a high spot and got a signal. I then examined the freqs on a conventional level. I noticed the analog freqs were sepparate from the p25 freqs. I thought to myself--if thats phasing out, then what do you sales reps call the reception I am getting? I say--know what you are selling, no guesses or rumors. $10.00 says they know EVERY feature on cell phones and mp3 players. Some of them cant even spell P.L... --my thoghts..
 

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I have always had an issue w/ 151.2500 for their dispatch. When you have the PL tone on the coverage will sound like it is skipping. Try listening to it w/o the PL tone programmed.
 

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Also, with the trunk system, NFR uses two talkgroups for dispatch that are patched into whatever station they are toning. One is for Fire calls (CH-1) and the other is for EMS/Fire calls (CH-8) There are, to my knowledge, two analog talkgroups that simulcast only the tone for both dispatches. If you scan open, and allow the status bit options, you will notice that a talkgroup is created when the Fire and EMS dispatch is activated. I forget what it is exactly, but this is also a good talkgroup to save.
 

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Would the pro 106 scan Nashua by doing a tune to the control channel / save?

What you do is enter the four control channels (852.5500, 852.7500, 853.2625, 853.4500) and then the talkgroups you are interested in (ex Fire Dispatch 32784) and save them as a Motorola trunked system.

The control channel tells the scanner what voice channel to listen to depending on what the system controller assigns to the talkgroup
 

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Also, with the trunk system, NFR uses two talkgroups for dispatch that are patched into whatever station they are toning. One is for Fire calls (CH-1) and the other is for EMS/Fire calls (CH-8) There are, to my knowledge, two analog talkgroups that simulcast only the tone for both dispatches. If you scan open, and allow the status bit options, you will notice that a talkgroup is created when the Fire and EMS dispatch is activated. I forget what it is exactly, but this is also a good talkgroup to save.

151.2500 does not simulcast anything, when a call is dispatched they multi-select Fire Dispatch and if needed EMS Dispatch and 151.2500. So basically all that is heard on 151.2500 is a call being dispatched or the tone test.
 
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