Phillip - Below is how I have one of my handhelds configured for local operations on the Palnet system.
I always monitor the Newport and Lancaster sites, and sometimes include the Chester site when the control channel is audible and something is going on below exit 65 on I-77.
The site info comes directly from Radio Reference. The (*) indicates a primary or alternate control frequency.
Newport ... 854.8375 855.7875 858.2875* 860.7875* 866.4875
Lancaster ... 856.9625 857.9625 858.9625 859.8625 867.9500 868.9875*
Chester ... 866.1375 866.4250 866.7125 867.5750* 867.8625*
Below are the talkgroups I have in the scan list. The first section is SCHP and Interstate ops, and you'll sometimes hear both I-77 and I-85 (Cherokee Co) traffic.
The second section covers the med helos on the system. Some folks have referred to 03856 as being used by Regional One. CareForce comes up here regularly. The memory is going, but I believe it was LifeReach that came up here the other morning for a 10-50 in York Co ... then was diverted to the helo pad at Charlotte-Douglas because fog and a working crane made the approach to the pad at CMC - Charlotte unsafe.
The third section of talkgroups I consider "general" in nature, although channels 60 and 61 (mutual aid and regional government tgs) are used occasionally. Someone indicated to me recently that the mutual aid tgs are statewide tgs, so I will probably expand this section to include all 10 talkgroups.
The fourth section is programmed in the scanner on the presumption one of those tgs might be put into use if something unplanned or unusual is going on in the area.
BTW - in looking over your past posts, Phillip, to determine what scanner you are using (a Pro 2052 ?), you asked about a statement I made about 154.830 / 127.3 as the input to 155.535 / 127.3 - a mutual aid channel.
The regional public safety dispatch facilities that had access to this channel had the option of working it in simplex mode on 155.535 MHz., or through the repeater via the input frequency (154.830 MHz). Most seemed to choose the first option. CMPD, when they use the net to communication with one of the S.C. dispatch facilities, has used the second (repeater) option.
Jeff Multer
032336 47 - SPEC OPS 4
021392 53 - CHESTER HP
029360 55 - CHESTER COM
021520 49 - CHEROKEE HP
029072 51 - YORK HP
029744 58 - YORK COMMON
041552 55 - STP OPS 4
030224 56 - DPS 4
003824 MUSC HELO
003856 AIR-TO-GROUND
003888 LIFEREACH HELO
003920 CAREFORCE HELO
030832 SC EMD COMMON
030896 SC EMD OPS 1
011280 SLED STATEWIDE
021552 DNR CALLING
030832 STATE WARN PT
031152 STATE EMER CALL
006960 LE COMMON
029264 60 - M / AID 4
031472 61 - REG GOVT
031280 SPECIAL EVENTS
031344 SPECIAL EVENTS
031408 SPECIAL EVENTS
031472 SPECIAL EVENTS
031536 SPECIAL EVENTS
031600 SPECIAL EVENTS
