richmond countyga, and west south carolina control channels?

[gaunter033]

I submitted this earlier in the motorola trunking forum and was directed here. I am new to the trunking deal, so please be kind, I'm doing my best to grasp it. :wink:


I spent a few hours today using the rr database to input the control channel freqs into my pro 95 and I only found 4 or 5 that actually matched the database. Anyone else have this problem in my area who might have an updated list? I want to listen to south carolina highway patrol, aiken county south carolina, and richmond county georgia. The sites i should be able to hear are as follows......mcbean, augusta, blythe, north augusta, aiken, plum branch, due west, anderson, batesburg, allendale, barnwell, gaston, salley, orangeburg, greenwood & bamberg. I really dont want to input all the individual freqs into the scanner if I can help it. also, if you are capable of hearing this area, I recently submitted some ten codes, signal codes and such for richmond and columbia counties if you need them. I am currently working on more of the surrounding counties and will submit them as I get them. I also found today searching the fcc's web site that columbia county georgia has just had some new 400mhz frequencies allocated for future use. If you input them in the scanner they all have an "open mic" sound to them. If they do come in use, i will be sure to submit those also. Have a great day everyone.

 

[fmon]

gaunter033,

I'll try to help some with my experiences. I have had success on I-95, I-85 and US17 with the in route systems. 3 months ago we came up from Ft Stewart area to north of Augusta within GA but departed traveling into South Carolina on a route which I had the following CC's programmed.
Augusta 860.7625
Joanna 868.2875 and 868.9000
Due West 855.5125
Chesterfield 868.9500
Chester 867.5750 and 867.8750
Lancaster 868.9575
Bennettsville 867.1750 and 867.6750
BTW, this list is still in my V-Scanner.

I cannot say each freq had activity, but the scanner was barking most of the route. Another note, Larry (of Spartanburg) reported a couple of years ago, that he entered a group of freqs, which were in a route to the coast and back to Spartanburg successfully, and as I recall, he used a Pro-2067.

 

[gaunter033]

Thanks Frank, I appreciate the info. I forgot to mention that my antenna is 75 feet up on a tower. Im sure that has a lot to do with bringing in some of the distant areas from me so well. Right now I have all the freqs in the scanner for those areas and it takes so long for it to scan that many is the reason Im looking just for the control channels. I am hoping that will speed up the scan time a little so I dont miss too much with the SCHP and Aiken county SD. I do have two more questions also, does every tower have a control channel? And if they do, is it always constant or is it only when someone is transmitting on the system?