Southern Nevada Frequency Book
Personally, I would not be without it. It consists of 51 pages and begins with a very detailed presentation of the Las Vegas Metro PD (frequencies, both repeater & simplex, radio codes, phonetic alphabet, incident disposition codes, unit identifiers, and two maps). The North Las Vegas PD trunking system comes next with frequencies and talk group IDs'. This system also includes non-law enforcement info. for that city. A beat map for NLVPD follows. Boulder City police, fire, and local gov't comes next, then Mesquite. The next seven pages is the Clark County TRS which covers about 15 agencies including all the fire departments in the LV valley. 150 talk group IDs' are showing in this listing by agency order and a reverse listing in order of talk group ID. Next is a detailed listing of the fire stations for the City of LV, Clark County, NLV, and Henderson with their equipment listing. EMS (non-800 systems) follows with detailed info. for AMR and SW ambulance companies, and the unique radio codes used for dispatching different types of medical emergencies. Next is an extensive list of conventional freqs. used by the City of LV, Clark County, CC School Dist., and the City of Henderson. The usage of each frequency is posted where known. Next, is a colored map for the HPD showing the 13 different patrol districts. Their radio code follows. Following this is the VHF trunking system for the NV Dept of Public Safety (parent organization of the NHP and nine other divisions). Frequencies for each site along with talk group IDs' are provided. This is the system that is sometimes called the "illegal" one as the State never had most of it licensed or coordinated.
Although it is turned on it is quiet as these divisions are currently using the 800 MHz trunking system (EDACS) unless it crashes again, in which case they will use the VHF system until repairs are made. This problem happened four times last year. The 800 MHz system is detailed next with sites, frequencies, & talk group IDs'. Nevada Power Company is also using this system and is mentioned. The DPS radio codes follow along with criminal history codes, incident disposition codes, radio call designators, and NHP patrol beats in Southern Nevada. Following all this is a listing of selected US Gov't frequencies for different agencies operating in Southern NV including: FBI, ATF, IRS, USPS, Bur. of Reclamation, Dept. of Interior for the Lake Mead Nat. Rec. Area, BLM, NWS, DEA, USFS, USSS, US Marshal, INS, FAA, & Customs. A brief presentation of the Nellis AFB UHF Trunking System follows (new 11-2004). Next are aircraft freqs. for Nellis AFB (VHF & UHF), commercial & general aviation (airports and ATC). Later follows ground transportation radio freqs. for railroads, monorail, taxis, limos, and bus services. Motor Sports follows with different racing teams and their known freqs. Ground operations freqs. for airlines, golf courses & country clubs comes next.
At page 40 begins a long hotel & casino section which lists 110 properties and frequency information, and trunking system info. including talk groups. Page 48 begins a selected business section with a variety of business freqs. that may be interesting to some listeners. The book closes with ham radio repeaters on pages 50 and 51.
I saw a copy Dated December 2004 which contained an update sheet dated Feb 1, 2005 so it appears very much up to date to me and very accurate. I own the first edition as well and have spoken with the publisher and have confidence in the material presented. The company says it plans on publishing new editions every six months but will continue furnishing update sheets each month to the dealers that stock the book so that whenever it is purchased the book is reasonably up to date.
I like it and have no reservations about its contents. Some people put a lot of work into this fine publication. Any serious monitor radio listener who is interested in the Southern Nevada airwaves should have a copy.
That is my opinion.
