Vanguard Group, Malvern PA

[Whiskey3JMC]

Vanguard Group Trunking System, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Vanguard Group Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

They now have new talkgroups (perhaps new radios as well?), some which seem to have wide network coverage to their satellite locations in Scottsdale, AZ (and possibly North Carolina & Texas?) No changes frequency-wise at any of the PA sites. I'll be actively logging the changes then will make the update submission.

New talkgroups I've been able to ID:
TGID-10: Malvern Engineering?
TGID-11: Malvern IT Services?
TGID-12: Malvern Housekeeping
TGID-13: Malvern Facilities?
TGID-15: Malvern Security
TGID-16: Malvern Engineering

Assuming the 3-digit talkgroups have wide area capabilties?
TGID-151: One hit, no voice, UID 1017 (Matches Malvern Engineering UID scheme)
TGID-155: Housekeeping wide?
TGID-157: Radio check, UID 1276
TGID-170: Scottsdale, AZ Security
TGID-177: One hit, unintelligible, UID 4010

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Still taking notes, rough draft & not every talkgroup is active daily but:

TGID-151: PA & AZ Security Interop
TGID-153: AZ Engineering?
TGID-157: PA & AZ Engineering Interop
TGID-160: One hit, no reply "Vanguard 1 to SCC" (security communications center?) Not widely used
TGID-177: Another hit calling facilities to security, nothing additional. Not widely used

 

[jblatman]

SCC is security command center, their dispatch.

Interesting that they’d share PA+AZ. Guess they are cutting costs and reducing dispatch centers.

In the past, their system was so localized that they needed separate repeaters for the Malvern and Wayne (Southeastern Post Office area) campuses.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

AZ security units use phonetics to identify (Bravo #, Golf #, Papa #) Not hearing the same trend with PA, rather Mobile #, East campus security, west campus security. Interesting...

 

[CommJunkie]

I worked for Allied-Barton Security at Vanguard sometime around 2009-2010. At the time, Mobile 1 was the mobile security guy for the upper campus off Devon Park Dr. Mobile 2 was the main campus guy. SCC was the Security Command Center at the main campus and PMSCC was the Print Mill Security Command Center for the upper campus. Each building is numbered and "Patrol" was a foot patrol unit.
Granted, after 15 years these things could have been changed by now, but it's a start.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Awesome, thanks for the inside baseball