Placer/El Dorado/Yuba County area local LE callsign question

[Hooligan]

While traveling along I-80 just N of Sacramento in Placer County, I intercepted a special LE detail involving callsigns "Adam 1" and several "Ocean #" units (Ocean 8 was heard a lot).

I'm thinking these guys were state/county/local law enforcement based on some of their vernacular (for example, using phonetics standard for California law enforcement -- Adam Boy Charles... instead of the international phonetic alphabet) & I'm thinking they were in Placer County, but could have been El Dorado or even Yuba County.

Can anyone provide details on any local/state LE use of "Adam-1" & Ocean #" callsigns in those counties?


Thanks,


Tim

 

[Sac916]

While traveling along I-80 just N of Sacramento in Placer County, I intercepted a special LE detail involving callsigns "Adam 1" and several "Ocean #" units (Ocean 8 was heard a lot).

I'm thinking these guys were state/county/local law enforcement based on some of their vernacular (for example, using phonetics standard for California law enforcement -- Adam Boy Charles... instead of the international phonetic alphabet) & I'm thinking they were in Placer County, but could have been El Dorado or even Yuba County.

Can anyone provide details on any local/state LE use of "Adam-1" & Ocean #" callsigns in those counties?


Thanks,


Tim

Are you able to narrow down the frequency band? 150MHz? 460MHz 800Mhz?

Travelling along that area, with the elevation changes, you can easily pick up some Central Calif and Bay Area freqs, even with a stock antenna.

 

[WayneH]

I heard it too. It's in the 170MHz region (no, it's not an image).

 

[cousinkix1953]

I heard it too. It's in the 170MHz region (no, it's not an image).

I haven't heard many 2nd if signals (21.4 mhz.) above the original frequency sionce I bought a Pro 2006 in the early 90s. Images from ham repeaters were quite common in the federal band, when using old tunable VHF radios and the early programmable scanners. I have heard only one "temporary" ham repeater during last summer's fires and a local VHF TV station in that Federal band with my newer Pro97 handheld scanner.

State and local agencies are more likely to use an official FCC calsign with either voice or CW transmissions. This group of letters and numbers can be inserted into the License Search page on that www.fcc.gov. homepage. It will spit out information, telling you if it was the state of California, the county or a city agency...

 

[WayneH]

Images from ham repeaters were quite common in the federal band, when using old tunable VHF radios and the early programmable scanners.

Getting OT here, but I have a local amateur repeater appearing in the FED VHF band. I think it's their faulty equipment though as I get it on multiple receivers. (SARA 145.39 136.5 appears on 163.4000 around Lathrop and Tracy; someone needs a nasty-gram)


So no one knows of any LE agency in NorCal using Ocean or Adam units?

 

[Hooligan]

I haven't heard many 2nd if signals (21.4 mhz.) above the original frequency sionce I bought a Pro 2006 in the early 90s. Images from ham repeaters were quite common in the federal band, when using old tunable VHF radios and the early programmable scanners. I have heard only one "temporary" ham repeater during last summer's fires and a local VHF TV station in that Federal band with my newer Pro97 handheld scanner.

State and local agencies are more likely to use an official FCC calsign with either voice or CW transmissions. This group of letters and numbers can be inserted into the License Search page on that www.fcc.gov. homepage. It will spit out information, telling you if it was the state of California, the county or a city agency...

To put it nicely, WTF?!!!

Someone thinks stations doing a surveillance using callsigns "ADAM 1" & "OCEAN #" are probably an image from a ham repeater?!

Come to think of it, all those times I heard "AIR FORCE ONE" talking to "ANDREWS" on HF & UHF, it might actually have been just images from some silly ham operators, one wearing Nike 'Air Force One' sneakers, talking to some woman named Ann Drews.

Why is it that some people feel obligated to respond with some zany hypothetical discourse instead of just keeping quiet, when they don't know the answer to a pretty simple, straightforward question?

 

[RolnCode3]

That was funny. "Ann Drews"!

 

[Sac916]

To put it nicely, WTF?!!!

Someone thinks stations doing a surveillance using callsigns "ADAM 1" & "OCEAN #" are probably an image from a ham repeater?!

Come to think of it, all those times I heard "AIR FORCE ONE" talking to "ANDREWS" on HF & UHF, it might actually have been just images from some silly ham operators, one wearing Nike 'Air Force One' sneakers, talking to some woman named Ann Drews.

Why is it that some people feel obligated to respond with some zany hypothetical discourse instead of just keeping quiet, when they don't know the answer to a pretty simple, straightforward question?

Personally I think it was TV audio freqs

TV Channel 7 Audio Freq 179.75
TV Channel 22 Audio Freq 173.75

I'm certain they were listening to ADAM 12 and OCEANS 11

I'm gonna spend the rest of the morning researching TV Guide

 

[kma371]

Why is it that some people feel obligated to respond with some zany hypothetical discourse instead of just keeping quiet, when they don't know the answer to a pretty simple, straightforward question?

So kind of what your doing here?

What happened, Did you get banned from BayScan again and came here?

 

[Hooligan]

That was funny. "Ann Drews"!

I used to hear her flirt with Mack Dill & Mick Clellan a lot. Also someone named "Scott" but he got off the air back in the early 1990s.

 

[inigo88]

I must have heard Animal Planet on the UHF and VHF airbands when I heard "BIGFOOT" and "BEAVER" respectively!!!

 

[WayneH]

ANYHOW, if we can get away from the typical Bayscan BS, it appears Placer County uses Ocean and Adam Units. Ocean is for units up around Lincoln (Granite Bay) and Adam is an SO Admin designator. It would be strange for an air unit to use an Admin callsign but whatever.

I take it no one listens to Nevada, Placer or any county SO's in the area? No recognizing?

 

[gmclam]

Placer & Nevada counties

I take it no one listens to Nevada, Placer or any county SO's in the area? No recognizing?

Actually I listen to all of the above counties and the city agencies within them. But I really don't pay attention to unit numbers & names. I listen to a lot and typically only pay attention to location & type of event/incident.

 

[RolnCode3]

Actually I listen to all of the above counties and the city agencies within them. But I really don't pay attention to unit numbers & names. I listen to a lot and typically only pay attention to location & type of event/incident.

That kinda' my way of listening too. I've been trying to pay attention since this thread came about, but haven't heard anything relevant. And I also listen to Yolo, Solano, Sutter, Placer, and Nevada regularly. Yuba not so much.