Tooele County 155.8200

[Rolfman]

Unless there is some objection I want to submit a change to this frequency. It is currently list as:
Tooele Sherriff 2

In fact it is used by Tooele County Fire and EMS units as is rebroadcast on UCAN as Tooele Fire 1 TGID 40128

So I propose the change be
155.8200 Tooele Fire 1

 

[jjwhite29]

I think that would be good Rolfman I second that. I guess we have never paid attention to that before.

 

[theaton]

Tooele fire

Unless there is some objection I want to submit a change to this frequency. It is currently list as:
Tooele Sherriff 2

In fact it is used by Tooele County Fire and EMS units as is rebroadcast on UCAN as Tooele Fire 1 TGID 40128

So I propose the change be
155.8200 Tooele Fire 1

Good ID Rolfman. I think I added the "2" to the tag just to make it unique, but apparently the use was misidentified. I also appreciate the UCAN link!

How is 155.820 used differently from 157.450, which seems to be fire paging for Tooele?

-Tim

 

[jjwhite29]

They only use 157.450 for paging only and than switch to 155.820 (aka) TG 40128 for all the traffic.

 

[Junior1970]

They only use 157.450 for paging only and than switch to 155.820 (aka) TG 40128 for all the traffic.

That's why if you only monitor UCAN in TeCo and don't program in the pager freq you only hear the response off of TG 40128/155.820. Unlike UtCo's fire pager, in which 153.950 is patched to UtCo Fire 3 (46304), It's not patched over UCAN.
This brings up an interesting point. When UCAN went on the air and the PD and fire agencies migrated over many (most) still keep a VHF fire freq in use. Since many still use pager tones (such as Motorola QuikCall for example) I tend to keep those channels in use since, in many cases, the paged incident is not broadcast over the UCAN TG.
Besides some of us radio geeks that have been monitoring fire for awhile can probably tell who is being paged by the toneout before dispatch gives all the verbal info. I can for UtCo anyway. I'm starting to be able to with TeCo.

 

[theaton]

Vhf & Ucan

Sounds like consensus! I changed the Tooele Fire entries to reflect the proper use and the UCAN link. I suspect some of the other Tooele frequencies are also out of date (sheriff, etc.) so let me know the status of those if you're in that area.

Jay, I spent some time last wek scanning Utah County VHF and UCAN simultaneously and found several more links that I added to the DB. But it's worth noting that the links are not permanent. Sometimes the same transmission goes out over both systems but sometimes it's on only one or the other. I couldn't find any logic to the difference. So VHF is still well worth scanning!

-Tim

 

[Rolfman]

I spent most of the hoildays scanning those HF frequencies for Tooele County and that is the only traffic I got.

What is interesting to me is that you only hear the field units on the HF frequency. Dispatch was only heard talking on the UCAN and the Fire/EMS units would broadcast on both the HF and UCAN. When the Fire/EMS units switch to UCAN Tooele Fire 2 TGID 40160 you do not hear them on HF.