New to the Area

[kd2ael]

Hello, I am new to the area and wondering how do the systems work here? I am located in Ann Arundel and looking for EMS, Fire, and Police scanner info. I look through the database and only see Anne Arundel station 1 and also the First System. Do all the volunteer departments use the same freq as Anne Arundel or on the First system?

 

[maus92]

Hello, I am new to the area and wondering how do the systems work here? I am located in Ann Arundel and looking for EMS, Fire, and Police scanner info. I look through the database and only see Anne Arundel station 1 and also the First System. Do all the volunteer departments use the same freq as Anne Arundel or on the First system?

Anne Arundel County operates on their own 800 MHz SmartZone system:

Anne Arundel County (P16) Trunking System, Various, Maryland

Anne Arundel County (P16) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

The individual departments do not have their own frequencies. Most stations are manned by career personnel, supplemented by volunteers.

Various state agencies utilize the 700 MHz FIRST system, and there is a FIRST simulcast site located in the county, as well as 2 ASR sites that carry a subset of the simulcast site traffic. You probably only need to monitor the simulcast site.

 

[kd2ael]

Thank you very much I will take a look

 

[tvengr]

Hello, I am new to the area and wondering how do the systems work here? I am located in Ann Arundel and looking for EMS, Fire, and Police scanner info. I look through the database and only see Anne Arundel station 1 and also the First System. Do all the volunteer departments use the same freq as Anne Arundel or on the First system?

What scanner and programming software do you have?

 

[fourwd1]

All Anne Arundel police/fire/ems/local government is on the AA 800MHz trunked system, including Annapolis City.

BWI airport has their own 800MHz trunked system.

Md State Police also has a TG on the AA system but I don't know how much it is utilized, they may use the FiRST system primarily.

 

[fourwd1]

For detailed information also check out the wiki link on the Rad Ref AA county database page.

 

[maus92]

All Anne Arundel police/fire/ems/local government is on the AA 800MHz trunked system, including Annapolis City.

BWI airport has their own 800MHz trunked system.

Md State Police also has a TG on the AA system but I don't know how much it is utilized, they may use the FiRST system primarily.

The state police tg on the county system is crosslinked to FIRST, thus carries the same traffic. BWI Fire has tgs on both their TRS and the county's system: I *believe* that there are BWI FD routine comms that only happen on the airport's system.

 

[fourwd1]

BWI FD rarely uses the AA county system. When they need help from another jurisdiction (AA, Howard, Baltimore counties) they typically contact them on FDMA 154.28 and a responding unit would switch to the BWI system.

 

[kd2ael]

What scanner and programming software do you have?

I have a few BCD436HP and I use the Sentinel software for that. Then I have a mobile unit the Uniden BCD996P2 and use Free scan to program that

 

[tvengr]

Here are a hpe favorites list file and FreeSCAN file for Anne Arundel County. Save the attached zipped files to your computer and extract. Let me know if you need help importing the hpe file.

 

[Chris52]

BWI FD rarely uses the AA county system. When they need help from another jurisdiction (AA, Howard, Baltimore counties) they typically contact them on FDMA 154.28 and a responding unit would switch to the BWI system.

Wow they still do that ? I thought that was old school stuff there. I would think they would just automatically mark up on there main.

 

[kd2ael]

Here are a hpe favorites list file and FreeSCAN file for Anne Arundel County. Save the attached zipped files to your computer and extract. Let me know if you need help importing the hpe file.

Thank you so much for that appreciate it

 

[maus92]

IDK, I hear BWI Fire automated / robot dispatch daily

 

[riveter]

Wow they still do that ? I thought that was old school stuff there. I would think they would just automatically mark up on there main.

*sigh* wouldn't it be great if technology and policy advanced to the point of mutual aid interfacing...

yeah FMARS is still the primary net for fire mutual aid coordination. It does certainly follow the KISS principle, which I like.

 

[empire550]

All Anne Arundel police/fire/ems/local government is on the AA 800MHz trunked system, including Annapolis City.

BWI airport has their own 800MHz trunked system.

Md State Police also has a TG on the AA system but I don't know how much it is utilized, they may use the FiRST system primarily.

BWI is on FiRST too

 

[maus92]

BWI is on FiRST too

I didn't know that - what tgs?

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

BWI FD rarely uses the AA county system.

BWI Fire Dispatch, Tac 1, and Tac 2 are automatically patched to the Anne Arundel System at all times. When AA Fire respond to BWI emergencies they switch to the BWI system for operations.

BWI is on FiRST too

BWI Fire & MDTAP BWI Detachment do not use FIRST for operations.

 

[Mark]

Also up here in NE Maryland the Med-Evac repeater? Chopper dispatch comes in well on the old 44.740 FM mode.
Just heard Trooper 3 on there tonight.

 

[empire550]

BWI Fire Dispatch, Tac 1, and Tac 2 are automatically patched to the Anne Arundel System at all times. When AA Fire respond to BWI emergencies they switch to the BWI system for operations.



BWI Fire & MDTAP BWI Detachment do not use FIRST for operations.

I didn't know that. Thanks.
I'm surprised that they didn't pull them into the state system.