question about Worcester COMIRS OTA aliases

[wx2watch]

(From DSD+FASTLANE ver2523 “DSDplus.radios” file while monitoring COMIRS system in Worcester, MA)

Can someone tell me what the abbreviations (text in RED) indicate? Are these towns or utility departments?

(I assume FD is Fire Department)

By the way, I’m about 35 miles from Worcester so I’m very surprised that I can obtain a useable signal, especially since I’m indoors using the “cheap” telescoping rabbit ears antenna that came with my RTL-SDR v3 USB dongle.

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32889, 50, Normal, 5, 2025/02/08 11:28, "", "FD BOROWEIC SH", 2F81F288

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32890, 50, Normal, 3, 2025/01/30 5:44, "", "FD BOWLES SHW", 4DD7A141

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32893, 50, Normal, 4, 2025/02/08 12:20, "", "FD FULGINITI S", FB350A0A

P25, BEE00.D14, 183, 61, 50, Normal, 8, 2025/02/09 5:12, "", "MPA-SWEEPER16", 3247AF22

 

[dave3825]

Can someone tell me what the abbreviations (text in RED) indicate? Are these towns or utility departments?

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32889, 50, Normal, 5, 2025/02/08 11:28, "", "FD BOROWEIC SH", 2F81F288

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32890, 50, Normal, 3, 2025/01/30 5:44, "", "FD BOWLES SHW", 4DD7A141

P25, BEE00.D14, 4865, 32893, 50, Normal, 4, 2025/02/08 12:20, "", "FD FULGINITI S", FB350A0A

P25, BEE00.D14, 183, 61, 50, Normal, 8, 2025/02/09 5:12, "", "MPA-SWEEPER16", 3247AF22

I could be totally wrong, but seeing as tg 4865 is

4865

1301

T

Shrewsbury FD Mn

Fire Operations - Main

SHW is most likely an abbreviation for Shrewsbury. Then because of how long alias is, could only squeeze in SH, and S on the first and last.


and tg 183

183

0b7

D

Worc ORH Mnt

Maintenance

Public Works

Massport/Worcester Regional Airport

MPA could be Massport Airport. Either a guy pushing a broom or a street sweeper used on runways.

 

[wx2watch]

Thanks for the information!

As Homer Simpson would say, "DOH!!" For some reason I was totally oblivious to the RRDB listing of the talk groups under Worcester County. ( I was so busy patting myself on the shoulder by my chance discovery of the primary CC of 858.1375 MHz that I did not search far enough into the RRDB...) Now I know where to look to further decipher the info that DSDplus is giving me.

Again, many thanks.

 

[dave3825]

Some times if your on a county system, looking at that counties website, then departments within can offer some clues. Same for some police departments. If I found AF, and searched my pd website, then look at departments, Asset Forfeiture jumps out.

 

[wx2watch]

WOW!, Once I scrolled to the bottom of the Worcester RRDB page and found all those groups (plus a little searching in RR), I re-upped my premium membership. Then a little cutting-n-pasting to the end of DSDplus.groups files and now I have descriptions of the talkgroups within the DSDplus program!

(I am also amazed at how resilient DSDplus is - My first attempts generated some error messages but the program "healed" itself and kept right on going with no problems.)

THANK YOU again dave3825 !!

 

[dave3825]

The membership has great perks as far as DSDPlus. On each trunked systems page, the downloads section has DSDPlus formatted groups, sites and freqs files. Just copy and paste into appropriate DSDPlus file. Except for p25, which DSDPlus manages the freqs in its own file.