Does anyone know where the DPS Troopers are operating in the Texarkana area? I hear them talking to Bowie County dispatchers some on the local GATRRS system but I've never been able to find them talking to their dispatch doing traffic stops for example. I've looked at the Texas DPS page and tried all the systems and frequencies but can't find anything.
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I'm not in your area, of course, but here, in the DFW metro area, radio calls on the DPS frequencies are few and far between. Most routine traffic, including traffic stops, is handled via the mobile data terminals in the vehicles, instead of generating voice radio traffic. Maybe someone else in the northeast Texas area can confirm that for you.
Have you tried finding a DPS specific talkgroup on GATRRS in that area? It seems they are talking to their dispatch more on the trunking systems where available these days. And, as has already been mentioned, voice traffic seems to be minimized for routine stuff.
I've had GATRRS running on an SDR system ingesting all talk groups and have not discovered anything.
I kind of figured this. Right across the State Line in Ark. the ASP talk groups are very active with them conducting traffic stops and in over 10 years of listening almost every day I don't think I have ever heard a DPS officer pull a car over. Every year or so I go looking for it again with no luck.
DPS troopers operate on their assigned county system; if not using MDTs, they'll be on the county voice system. Dispatch and coordination is pretty much all I hear on their VHF channels.
This. Dispatchers have their GPS position at all times, and they use their MDT for everything these days. They can go 10-41, 10-6, 10-8 and 10-42 from the terminal, and they can do all traffic stop activities in car as well. Radio is usually with their local county, and for things like arresting and transporting, responding to accidents, pursuits and general county patrol assists. I still hear DPS on their repeaters in the more rural sparsely populated areas but I almost think it’s more a product of loneliness out west….the need to hear another human’s voice
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You can also listen for their D-David call ##'s.
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Ditto to the above. I was driving through Roby on US 180 last week. A trooper stopped an 18 wheeler, no radio traffic either before or after they stopped to Fisher Cty or the state.
Returning from Lubbock, Palo Pinto Cty notified the troopers on I-20 of an 18 wheeler carrying pipe, mile marker 8 or so miles east of me. Thinking the chances of me seeing this truck are nil, 10 or so minutes later I passed a trooper has stopped the described 18 wheeler. Again no voice traffic to the county or state.
IMO, set your delay times to resume scanning longer and record the talkgroups or state freq's that you want to hear. Most talk is usually very short in duration. In Coleman Cty I seem to find more voice traffic at night.
Returning from Lubbock, Palo Pinto Cty notified the troopers on I-20 of an 18 wheeler carrying pipe, mile marker 8 or so miles east of me. Thinking the chances of me seeing this truck are nil, 10 or so minutes later I passed a trooper has stopped the described 18 wheeler. Again no voice traffic to the county or state.
IMO, set your delay times to resume scanning longer and record the talkgroups or state freq's that you want to hear. Most talk is usually very short in duration. In Coleman Cty I seem to find more voice traffic at night.
Like rattler said they use GPS positioning , they will usually hit a key on their mobile come that lets the DPS base know they are out on traffic and GPS gives the dispatcher the exact location of that unit the trooper will enter licenses plates , DL and other info via computer , if that trooper should have an emergency or a suspect that becomes combative they can hit the emergency button on their radio to notify dispatch , I've heard situations on my scanner when monitoring Houston DPS where the dispatcher will say units be advised 2Dxxx is out at ( location ) and has a suspect non compliant , and I don't hear anything on any DPS channels prior to this saying anything about a traffic stop or needing back up , which tells me it's not broadcasted over the air , it's done by GPS and computer and an emergency button
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Using MDT just tells us you are ancient, like me. 
Back on topic, I hear a fair amount of voice traffic on the GATTRS TG for "Austin Region 6B." Since that particular TG appears on the Austin, Williamson, and Bastrop campuses they cover a fairly wide area.
Still most agencies are moving to more data communications and less voice traffic. Which is why the whole encryption things is silly, but I digress.
Back on topic, I hear a fair amount of voice traffic on the GATTRS TG for "Austin Region 6B." Since that particular TG appears on the Austin, Williamson, and Bastrop campuses they cover a fairly wide area.
Still most agencies are moving to more data communications and less voice traffic. Which is why the whole encryption things is silly, but I digress.
The police where I worked had MDT-9100 tied to the CAD system. I don't think they could even do warrant checks or run license information. We got Motorola MR-520s in the ambulance but we were tied into the same CAD system and could only get call information or send messages.
Some people got in trouble sending messages because the police controlled the CAD system and they reviewed every message sent. Some people lost CAD privileges.
All of that didn't change until a few years after I retired in 2012. New CAD system, new computers.
Some people got in trouble sending messages because the police controlled the CAD system and they reviewed every message sent. Some people lost CAD privileges.
All of that didn't change until a few years after I retired in 2012. New CAD system, new computers.
In Nacogdoches mostly I hear them on Repeater 11 (159.210 NAC 137) or on TxWARN talk group 882. As observed by the OP, the amount of radio talk is very different across the state line in Arkansas. ASP traffic is quite busy on the troop dispatch channels, especially Troop A (Little Rock).
As someone with the same VHF antenna as DPS and a solid VHF mobile they absolutely still use their VHF systems. I hear troopers over 60 miles away sometimes on the input side and regularly hear repeaters further than that.
If you ever get bored on VHF start programming things many counties away and you'll be surprised what you hear. So far my furthest VHF RX under normal conditions was The Woodlands MCHD Dispatch while in Hill County and Lampasas GATRRS while in McLennan. Honorable mention: Navarro County while in Lampasas
If you ever get bored on VHF start programming things many counties away and you'll be surprised what you hear. So far my furthest VHF RX under normal conditions was The Woodlands MCHD Dispatch while in Hill County and Lampasas GATRRS while in McLennan. Honorable mention: Navarro County while in Lampasas
I’ve hit the Huntsville CH 1 TDCJ repeater back in the analog days from the Causeway leaving Hospital Galveston (UTMB) when taking an inmate back to the unit. 120 miles or so. Used to pick up Central Unit on Common Ch 5 back then from as far away as Rusk on some summer nights.
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