Radio Recommendation (Make & Model) to listen to local Huntsville PD

[goate1983]

Good Afternoon everyone! I am looking for a recommendation on a radio to purchase so that I might be able to listen to the radio traffic for my local Huntsville Police Department. All of the streaming feeds online for Huntsville are actually the Madison County Sherriff's Department and not HPD. If anyway could help with a radio and frequencies in the Huntsville, AL area I would appreciate it!!

thanks!!!

 

[medic9351301]

is this feed your listening to
Huntsville/Madison County Public Safety

 

[medic9351301]

see if this helps with huntsville pd

Alpha - North Units
Baker - South Units
Charlie - West Units

keep in mind all your going to hear is the dispatch channels the good stuff is gone

 

[joebobe]

I am using a Radio Shack Pro 651, but any digital scanner that can receive
P25 Phase 1 digital will work ok. Below is a list of control channels and
talkgroups for the HSV area.


These are the 4 control channels for HSV Public Safety System
771.70625
772.28125
774.79375
857.41250

This is the latest known talkgroups for HSV radio system.

3 Huntsville PD Dispatch North
5 Huntsville PD Dispatch South
7 Huntsville PD Dispatch West
215 EMA EOC
283 UAH F1
455 TECH 1

617 Hsv Utilities Gas Dept
635 Hsv Utilities
637 Hsv Utilities General comm
639 Hsv Utilities Electric Dept
643 Alt Elec
649 Hsv Utilities Water Dept
653 Hsv Utilities Gas Dept 2

30125 Huntsville Fire Dispatch

30225 Madison County Sheriff Dispatch

30325 Madison PD Dispatch
30425 Madison Fire Dispatch

30525 HEMSI Dispatch "Med Com"
30526 HEMSI Ops 1
30539 HEMSI Supervisors

30841 Oakwood College Public Safety (Police)

31039 Med-Flight

 

[princessthelus]

The cheap option is RTL-SDR. It cost me about $50 and I can listen to all of the trunking systems in my area. It's a lot more technical than a scanner but has many other advantages than a traditional scanner. Half of Madison county is encrypted and SDR can take care of that if you know the key and a little of C++ coding. (I am just stating the capability of SDR and not advocating the use of it for decryption or do anything immoral)

 

[medic9351301]

can you post a link to that RTL-SDR

 

[goate1983]

is this feed your listening to
Huntsville/Madison County Public Safety

Yes, it doesnt give me HPD though. I have friends with HPD and thought it would be interesting to listen in on some of the traffic.