texasemt13
CenTex DBA
I've been holding off my questions in order to get more responses (it seems these threads disappear after 5 days and most users these are targeting log in maybe once every other week or so).
Also, I think it would be beneficial if the Texas Forum would create a Texas DPS Sticky. It seems that with the conversion to digital over with, that a smaller sticky could be warranted for all the out-of-staters whose typical question is "What frequencies do I need to plug in to listen to *insert dispatch center here*?" I think a sticky could help resolve this.
Back to my main questions (and if I recall a couple Troopers frequent this site, so maybe they could offer some insight).
My first group of questions is about numbering (and don't refer me to the much linked thread here or here). I've read them. In post #11 of the second linked thread above, 225Texas states that, in Houston, the 90XX are DL Troopers. Does this hold true across the state? I hear many 92XX and 93XX between San Antonio and Austin- I was wondering if these are DL Troopers or CLE or what have you... any body have a clue as to what these 92XXs and 93XXs are? I've also heard 2 96XXs (one calling SA and one calling Austin).
Now, concerning TABC. I have noticed listening to TABC (when I rarely hear them), that they are using 4-digit numbers similar to DPS (and can't dig the thread up right now- but remember someone saying that TABC uses thier old DPS unit numbers- given that they are prior DPS). Is this true? In the second link above, post #16, rattlerbb, posts that 6445 is TABC (rattler- how do you know? Did you meet him?). Is there a way to tell if these units are TABC? Secondly, does TABC also hop on to the DPS bandplan and use it? Could I have been hearing them all along on the DPS freqs and not really realized they were TABC?
Second-to-last, what about Rangers. These guys are all over the state, in multiple companies, surely every now and then one of them uses a radio (but how could I tell). Anyone have any radio frequency info on the Rangers or are they all using cell phones?
Lastly, (not really- more questions will follow ya'll's replies), rattlerbb also posts that a 91XX is a game warden near him. Now, I hear 92XXs and 93XXs but I hardly believe these are game wardens in my area because on the Texas P&W freqs I only catch the same 6 or 7 game wardens and they are all 51XXs (I'm live in P&W Region 5). How would we know whether they were game wardens or not on the DPS frequencies?
I have been listening to DPS for awhile now and these are the few remaining questions I can't resolve by myself, so I have turned to the Texas community for help. I'd like to be able to come up with a user created "Sub-Region" map- shouldn't be too hard. Don't let this thread die and if an admin reads this, maybe we could think about a Texas DPS sticky so we could link all the old archives threads.
Also, I think it would be beneficial if the Texas Forum would create a Texas DPS Sticky. It seems that with the conversion to digital over with, that a smaller sticky could be warranted for all the out-of-staters whose typical question is "What frequencies do I need to plug in to listen to *insert dispatch center here*?" I think a sticky could help resolve this.
Back to my main questions (and if I recall a couple Troopers frequent this site, so maybe they could offer some insight).
My first group of questions is about numbering (and don't refer me to the much linked thread here or here). I've read them. In post #11 of the second linked thread above, 225Texas states that, in Houston, the 90XX are DL Troopers. Does this hold true across the state? I hear many 92XX and 93XX between San Antonio and Austin- I was wondering if these are DL Troopers or CLE or what have you... any body have a clue as to what these 92XXs and 93XXs are? I've also heard 2 96XXs (one calling SA and one calling Austin).
Now, concerning TABC. I have noticed listening to TABC (when I rarely hear them), that they are using 4-digit numbers similar to DPS (and can't dig the thread up right now- but remember someone saying that TABC uses thier old DPS unit numbers- given that they are prior DPS). Is this true? In the second link above, post #16, rattlerbb, posts that 6445 is TABC (rattler- how do you know? Did you meet him?). Is there a way to tell if these units are TABC? Secondly, does TABC also hop on to the DPS bandplan and use it? Could I have been hearing them all along on the DPS freqs and not really realized they were TABC?
Second-to-last, what about Rangers. These guys are all over the state, in multiple companies, surely every now and then one of them uses a radio (but how could I tell). Anyone have any radio frequency info on the Rangers or are they all using cell phones?
Lastly, (not really- more questions will follow ya'll's replies), rattlerbb also posts that a 91XX is a game warden near him. Now, I hear 92XXs and 93XXs but I hardly believe these are game wardens in my area because on the Texas P&W freqs I only catch the same 6 or 7 game wardens and they are all 51XXs (I'm live in P&W Region 5). How would we know whether they were game wardens or not on the DPS frequencies?
I have been listening to DPS for awhile now and these are the few remaining questions I can't resolve by myself, so I have turned to the Texas community for help. I'd like to be able to come up with a user created "Sub-Region" map- shouldn't be too hard. Don't let this thread die and if an admin reads this, maybe we could think about a Texas DPS sticky so we could link all the old archives threads.
