Philadelphia International Airport Police/Fire

[domman27]

Hello. I’m new to the scanning world, I have a sds100 and love it. I have both Philadelphia Fire and Police programed. My question is, I’m trying to listen into the Philadelphia International Airport Police and Fire channels. Per RadioReference, the channels are not encrypted. Is it because they don’t talk as often, or is there another issue??

 

[RaleighGuy]

I’m trying to listen into the Philadelphia International Airport Police and Fire channels. Per RadioReference, the channels are not encrypted. Is it because they don’t talk as often, or is there another issue??

First suggestion is click on REPORT and ask this to be moved to the Pennsylvania forum for better responses. That said ...

Radio Reference database shows Phily Airport Fire is encrypted, though I'm not there to confirm if that is correct. DE in database means full time encryption.
Do you have all sites programmed in?

 

[domman27]

Radio Reference database shows Phily Airport Fire is encrypted, though I'm not there to confirm if that is correct. DE in database means full time encryption.
Do you have all sites programmed in?

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Thank you. I do have them programed. I see the police one is not encrypted though. Unless there's just no chatter

 

[captaincab]

Airport fire is encrypted but they are dispatched as engine 78 on the south fire dispatch talk group and the medic unit for the airport is medic 30 and dispatched on the south medic band. You don’t hear fire usually unless there is an alert 1 which is a inflight emergency or alert 2 confirmed crash the only other time you might hear engine 78 is going to the terminal to assist ems they don’t leave airport grounds. The crash trucks are designated foxtrot 1 etc I believe foxtrot 7 is the airport battalion chief

 

[HM1529]

Airport fire is encrypted but they are dispatched as engine 78 on the south fire dispatch talk group and the medic unit for the airport is medic 30 and dispatched on the south medic band. You don’t hear fire usually unless there is an alert 1 which is a inflight emergency or alert 2 confirmed crash the only other time you might hear engine 78 is going to the terminal to assist ems they don’t leave airport grounds. The crash trucks are designated foxtrot 1 etc I believe foxtrot 7 is the airport battalion chief

Just to be clear, the airport conyrol center dispatch talkgroup for emergency operations is 285. The other police/fire talkgroups listed in the airport section in the database listing are secondary tac channels. The medic/fire units will get a dispatch announcement over south medic/south fire, but the foxtrot units will talk to airport dispatch on TG 285. Airport 10 and Airport 20 are the managers for airport ops (one covers the air field the other covers the terminal). 285 will give you a good idea of what is going on at the airport.

 

[domman27]

Just to be clear, the airport conyrol center dispatch talkgroup for emergency operations is 285. The other police/fire talkgroups listed in the airport section in the database listing are secondary tac channels. The medic/fire units will get a dispatch announcement over south medic/south fire, but the foxtrot units will talk to airport dispatch on TG 285. Airport 10 and Airport 20 are the managers for airport ops (one covers the air field the other covers the terminal). 285 will give you a good idea of what is going on at the airport.

Thanks. So I have this channel programed in. This would be my best bet? Thanks.

 

[DASFlies]

Correct, everyone at the airport (Police, Fire, Airport Ops) uses PHL Emergency 1. Engine 78 has their own channel to coordinate their ops but it's encrypted.