New UCAN TalkGroup File

[KT7L]

There is a new, 5 page TalkGroup paper, with some name change info on the UCAN site.

If you haven't seen it, check this out: http://www.ucan800.org/assets/pdf/talk_group_use.pdf

Also, I should intro. myself: Obviously a ham, by my log-in. I am active on 40M through 440UHF. I live in Sun Peak, Park City -- facing Lewis Peak, and Park City Proper. I currently am using a 780XLT, and have been active, off and on, since Jon Van Allen did scanner directories in the early 1990's.

-- Bob

 

[Utah_Viper]

Very interesting. Thank you for the file. Where did you get that? did you write it yourself? And also welcome to the boards !

 

[KT7L]

No, that came right off the UCAN web site.... I was looking for new information on re-banding, and ran into it. I guess it was posted this week....

 

[qlajlu]

Glad you joined us

It amazes me how many HAMS sooner or later let themselves be known on this Forum. You can always tell a HAM because they are so proud of that license that they use the license number as a screen name, and because it is hard to get I applaud their use of it.

As Utah Viper said, "Welcome to the boards," AB7ST!

At long last someone also uses a BC780XLT! Yippee! I really wish that this model was flashable because I have so enjoyed listening to it (actually "them" since I have two of 'em). I guess it just depends on what you get used to. I've been using scanners since the early 80's and getting information out of scanning publications, but I don't recognize the name Jon Van Allen. Then, again, I was one looking more for content than who authored it.

Hang around, visit and post often, and continue contributing like you did in your very first post which was very informational.

 

[qlajlu]

Following an incident

I had turned the volume down on my BC780XLT while I watched and listened to the videos posted on KUTV's Web site about the trapped miners. I forgot about my scanners as I surfed other news media to see what they had written about the miners when I noticed the the SL Regional TG (17760) kept popping up on the display on my scanner. The only time that happens is when there is a pursuit! Well, I found out that is not always the case.

In the very first post of this thread, AB7ST steered us to a document from UCAN which talked about making some changes that would allow an agency that initiated a pursuit to continue it through adjacent jurisdictions and different radio coverage without having to change channels on their radios (Similar to the "old" Statewide Channel of the VHF/UHF days). The reason for this is that with the speed of today's vehicles and the freeways allowing unhindered progress, especially at night, a chase could cover several counties in a very short time and changing channels during a high speed chase is not the safest thing to be doing.

Each area has its own Regional Channel to turn to. UCAN is making it so that once an officer changes to the Regional Channel in his duty area, he does not need to change channels again as the pursuit moves to a different Region. This also allows the pursuing officer to stay in touch with his own dispatcher regardless of how far out of his jurisdiction he gets as the chase progresses. This has not been possible before.

That's a lot of words just to say that tonight the reason the SL Regional Channel lit up was that SLC PD (Gang or Vice...I didn't hear for sure) shadowed a "target" down to 4700 South and 2700 West where the "target" went into a c-store. At that point the opportunity allowed them to make a felony stop and arrest their "target" but the whole time SLC PD DISPATCH WAS ON THE REGIONAL CHANNEL!

I have never heard the city's dispatch on Regional before. If the city got in a chase and went to Regional before, it was the UHP dispatcher that picked up the pursuit. This is fantastic. What I would have given for a radio system like this back in the '70s when I was a Trooper in this valley.

 

[Utah_Viper]

I was listening to that as well. I was quite suprised to hear it on the Regional.