OSP Districts & Sites

[jackcf]

I'm in the process of setting up the Ohio State Patrol in my Uniden scanner so I can turn on/off which district to monitor with quick keys. I have done this for District 5 and to speed up the scanning I avoided all the sites outside of District 5. I knew what sites to avoid because of my familiarity with the area.

Now I want to do the same thing with the remaining districts but I don't know which sites are associated with which district.
I checked the Radio Reference OSP wiki description but it only breaks it down by county and not site.

Where can I get this information?

Thanks.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

This wiki contains lots of OSP info, Perhaps start here?

 

[jackcf]

This wiki contains lots of OSP info, Perhaps start here?

As I stated in my original post I checked that and it does not have the information I'm looking for.

 

[a388sig2]

Basically you take the map in the OSHP wiki link, then take a MARCS tower site map and go to town.

Maybe advise what District you want to program next and we can help with tower sites to get you started?

 

[jackcf]

Basically you take the map in the OSHP wiki link, then take a MARCS tower site map and go to town.

Maybe advise what District you want to program next and we can help with tower sites to get you started?

IS this what you are referring to?

Ohio MARCS - Multi-Agency Radio Communications - The RadioReference Wiki

wiki.radioreference.com

If it is then I'm clueless on what to do because in the database there are sites such as Ada, Addison, Adena that are not in the list I pointed to.

I was just going to do them in alphabetical order so the next one I started is District 1 and District 2.

 

[a388sig2]

For starters, the link you gave is the old deprecated MARCS system. So those sites you mentioned didn't exist.

The MARCS-IP towers here are sorted by county, click on the name for exact location.

as well as here
Ohio MARCS-IP: Multi-Agency Radio Communications Site Location Data Report

DAS Offers a basic MARCS towers map here

For OSP D1/D2, you're looking at over 30 sites. Me personally, I program by county number, and generally use GPS when traveling.

 

[phask]

You really can't. With the Consolidated Dispatching system that they use it's multiple counties for one dispatcher. plus they can patch others if needed to cover as area

Example, Post 60, which can also be Post 79 Dispatch. 60 covers Muskingum, Coshocton Co. 79 covers Carroll, Coshocton and Tusc. On 51560 TG you will hear any traffic for any of those 3 counties. It will be carried on multiple sites within those counties (and also some neighboring counties).

If for base, start with the sites you can hear, if mobile - use a GPS

 

[GregOH]

I think (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) it's safe to say, you'll want all talkgroups within your distsrict programmed. Or if you have an SDS100 or 200, you can scan your local talkgroup only, and ID search on the MARCS system would have it stopping on the other TGID's.

 

[KD8HMJ]

below the ohio marcs ip frequency page scroll down and youll see district 1 2 3 etc. the counties are listed as well write the counties down for each district then go back up to the frequency page find the county and the site will be there to the left. time consuming but thats how ive done it

 

[jackcf]

I think (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) it's safe to say, you'll want all talkgroups within your distsrict programmed. Or if you have an SDS100 or 200, you can scan your local talkgroup only, and ID search on the MARCS system would have it stopping on the other TGID's.

I am programming by District and I want to avoid scanning frequencies that are not in a given district. So If I'm scanning in District 5 I don't want to scan the frequiences used in District 3 since thats 200+ miles away in the other corner of the state..

 

[jackcf]

DAS Offers a basic MARCS towers map here

This link is not working. I can see it on my phone but not the computer and I want to print it. I think it has what I'm looking for.

 

[KD8HMJ]

Then 1 thru 9 quickkey make that a district. That way youre only scanning the sites in that particular district

 

[GregOH]

This link is not working. I can see it on my phone but not the computer and I want to print it. I think it has what I'm looking for.

Maybe take a screenshot of it on your phone and email it to your email?

 

[jackcf]

Then 1 thru 9 quickkey make that a district. That way youre only scanning the sites in that particular district

That's what I'm doing but it still scans all frequencies including those outside of the district.

 

[KD8HMJ]

Set each district up as a system. With the proper quick key assigned. Now i realize your challenge

 

[jackcf]

Maybe take a screenshot of it on your phone and email it to your email?

Then I can read it.

 

[jackcf]

Maybe take a screenshot of it on your phone and email it to your email?

I just discovered when I clicked on the link it saved the PDF file on my desktop without telling me about it. I have about a half a dozen of them setting there. Grrr............

 

[KD8HMJ]

By doing each district as its own system you can move thru the quick keys quickly turning one off or on as needed.

 

[a388sig2]

Dunno if this helps at all, I took the entire system from the RR Database and made it a Favorite.

I set every non-OSP Department to Quick Key 0 with the intention of keeping it always off, but still in my back pocket if OSP is working with a local department.

Then set each OSP District to their respective quick key number in the 90s, (D2-92, D3-93, etc...) and then set each tower site to their county, 1-88 quick keys for sites.

So if I’m in Columbus, I’ll enable ..25 (sites) and ..96 (department-district), but in all honesty, I keep all OSP Departments scanning and only change the tower sites.

It works for me, because if you set sites based just on OSP district you’re going to have a lot of overlap and redundancy. It is slightly different than what you’re trying to accomplish, but maybe it helps?

 

[jackcf]

below the ohio marcs ip frequency page scroll down and youll see district 1 2 3 etc. the counties are listed as well write the counties down for each district then go back up to the frequency page find the county and the site will be there to the left. time consuming but thats how ive done it

That method worked. I used that and the Map as a double check.
I now have what I was looking for. Now I have to contend with that stupid Sentinal program....

Thanks.