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TG 38304 and TG 38368

Here are a couple Carroll Co talkgroups. Seldom used, and when i've heard them I've never been able to pinpoint the users. However, the radio IDs heard are in a block with all the other Carroll Co SO radio IDs.

TG 36304
TG 36368

So it is my guess that these are Carroll CO SO / Fire relatted.
 

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TG 54960 -- Columbiana Co area

TG 54960 was active the other day with some interesting activity [and that's all I will say]. One of the radio IDs affiliated with this talkgroup was a Columbiana Co SO radio ID, and I didn't recognize the others.

The locations mentioned were all in Columbiana Co. However, I don't know if this is a local [Columbiana / Stark / Carroll Co area] talkgroup or some more regional talkgroup being used for some sort of interop.

Mike
 

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Heard earlier today in Licking County:
13520 - "45 Dispatch"
13536 - "Licking County Ops..."
13616 - "EMS"

The traffic on 13536 went garbled on me at an inopportune moment, so I don't know if "Licking County Ops" was the full name or if it's numbered.
 

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Heard during the statewide tornado drill this AM off the Toledo site:

TG 20080 - "Unit 400 to dispatch", some informal chitchat between units about which floor they were on, "Secure from drill" (at 1003).

TG 56400 - out at various addresses on North Main, other half of each conversation was all warbly, which is unusual around here. No ID's.
 

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Heard during the statewide tornado drill this AM off the Toledo site:

TG 20080 - "Unit 400 to dispatch", some informal chitchat between units about which floor they were on, "Secure from drill" (at 1003).

TG 56400 - out at various addresses on North Main, other half of each conversation was all warbly, which is unusual around here. No ID's.

20080 sits in the middle of possible ODMH talkgroups

56400 is probably FD32-OPS2 in Hancock County, although I don't know as it has been confirmed.

Mike
 

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Just confirmed 56400 as a Hancock Co Sheriff TG. L-55 (a Sheriff unit, they preface their numbers with "L") called 3200 (Hancock Sheriff dispatch) with traffic. Other units calling in plate numbers.

Haven't heard another peep from 20080 since they secured from drill.
 

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TGID 9744 hits today. Listed as "Secret Ops ?" in my scan list but not showing up in the database. I guess it really is a secret?
 

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TGID 9744 hits today. Listed as "Secret Ops ?" in my scan list but not showing up in the database. I guess it really is a secret?

Well, if you do a search for "9744" in the Ohio Forums, and have the search results show individual posts [rather than threads], you'll find that 9744 has been discussed in depth.

You'll never see it in the DB, regardless of whether anybody identifies the user. It is indeed a secret, except maybe to those who are "in the know" or who have figured the traffic out on their own.

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OK I didn't take that step of searching - I normally do. Oh well :)

I didn't mean to sound like a jackass. I heard traffic on another talkgroup in the past that was "secret" -- and when I did a search, it revealed it was one of those wonderful secret ones as well.. Just figured I'd let you know it's not a new thing. Some talkgroups will never be published into the MARCS database. Of course, people do post about them in the forums.

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I didn't mean to sound like a jackass.
Mike

Quite the contray - not a problem. Actually now that I think about it I recently read some of those posts and just didn't make the connection. As far as secret stuff goes, I could tell you some things, but ...you know what I'd hafta do then.... LOL
 

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I didn't mean to sound like a jackass. I heard traffic on another talkgroup in the past that was "secret" -- and when I did a search, it revealed it was one of those wonderful secret ones as well. Just figured I'd let you know it's not a new thing. Some talkgroups will never be published into the MARCS database. Of course, people do post about them in the forums.

Those or any other 'secret' talkgroups will be entered in the database, if and only if the user agency is conclusively identified, per database policy. If it's unidentified, it doesn't go in the database. "I think it's so and so" doesn't count.

We've discussed those particular talkgroups in depth for at least three years now, and no one has ever been able to identify the specific agency, as the users are very, very good at basic communications security and never identify themselves or their agency.
 

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Well a bunch of unid TG's showed up in the log today - encryped so I guess to do with potus in the area.
 

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13408 - Law enforcement using Columbus PD codes. It sounds like routine dispatch and operations. They mentioned Rickenbacker, but I don't know if it was a street name (Whitehall?) or the airport.
 

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13408 - Law enforcement using Columbus PD codes. It sounds like routine dispatch and operations. They mentioned Rickenbacker, but I don't know if it was a street name (Whitehall?) or the airport.

That would be Whitehall PD.
 

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59856

59856...

It's a police department, possibly around Huron County (officer with unit # 380 ran a tag that came back to Norwalk).

I just started reading this forum tonight. Iwas trying to bring up a radio feed and saw the forum links. Yes, i'm a sucker for Forums. To getback on subject. I noticed after reading this thread (yes, top to bottom) I noticed several posts about people hearing traffic on 59824 & 59856. I dont know anything about the radio systems (i just use them and my life depends on them), but I think I can help solve this mystery.

Ohio State University purchased MARCS radios back around 2008 or 2009. It was a cost sharing deal they put together with Columbus State. Anyways,at least two of the channels were to be used by the OSU Wooster Campus Police (not security). OSP post 85 originally dispatched for the Wooster Campus, but had planned to go to centralized dispatch center. Hence the purchase of MARCS Radios. in either 2008 or 2009 Wooster campus started utilizing the marcs radios since at the time post 85 was transferring dispatch to the canton post in the evenings. They would patch the OSU wooster police over to them. In 2010 OSU Columbus installed the proper equipment in their dispatch and started dispatching for OSU Wooster (with plenty of connection issues). On 9/16/2010 a tornado hit the Wooster Campus (Also known as ATI and OARDC). Its amazing that these radio transmit across the state so clearly.

Around that time OSU Police decided to start putting police departments on on all their regional campuses. this included Newark, Marion and Mansfield. OSU has several regional campuses and research stations across the state. The radio channels were to be used as Regional campus channels in stead of exclusively Wooster campus.

Wooster campus has the majority if the radio traffic especially at night. the others are mainly day time traffic.
 

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New MARCS Site: 6F10-039 Coshocton (Coshocton)

License: WQOW732
- license doesn't show new freqs - but pending application amendment does
- app amendment: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applFreqSum.jsp?applID=6837077



868.8750 CC

The pending app [and the RRDB] list all of the freqs. If somebody is around/near Coshocton and can monitor 868.875 directly, please get some further information if you are able such as:

1. Site Alias
2. Alternate control channel
3. Any site neighbors

Of course, #2 and #3 would require you to run some sort of trunking program (or a Uniden HP-1) to obtain that info.

Mike
 
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