Sandy Creek Fire (Minerva)

[Volfirefighter]

For the past several months, Sandy Creek FD has been toned out on 453.2000 with subsequent traffic on 800 (formerly the old Stark County System and now MARCS). Over the past few days, the tones have gone off on UHF but no call information was dispatched. No call information comes over MARCS either. The units do go enroute on MARCS and I hear all subsequent traffic. Anyone know how the units are getting call information? I know text can be sent over MARCS radios because EMT ambulance does this. Is there any way to get this text by decoding the control channel with software? Is this info encrypted or only if TG is encrypted?

 

[mtindor]

I don't believe they are getting it via text on MARCS. I believe if you were running DSDPlus or Unitrunker you would be able to tell when they were being sent data. I've never seen a case where one could "read" that via Unitrunker or DSDPlus, and I imagine that is probably because it is either encrypted (most likely) and propietary (Harris / Moto) that nobody has reverse engineered and likely never will.

With that said, I don't listen to the UHF stuff for Sandy Creek, but my buddy Doc goes. i'll ask him. They actually had historically toned out on multiple of their UHF frequencies. I'll ask him and see what he has to say. He may even respond here himself. He follows them pretty closely.

 

[Volfirefighter]

The 453.2000 repeater is in Minerva. There is another repeater over in West Twp (Columbiana County) but I do not scan it as I get very poor reception. They have always had the tone outs simulcast on both repeaters.

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[ESFFSW911]

It was either yesterday or Monday, I heard a call toned out on 154.430 with an address that matched a call I heard Sandy Creek handling on the MARCS TG. At the time, I had no idea who was being toned on that frequency. May want to check that, I was also wondering how they were getting call info.

 

[docsmachine]

They are toned out on 453.2000 and 453.8375 heard them testing yesterday. I hear them on both when they are toned out.. They don't seem to be toned out on 154.4300 the old FD channel any more.