VHF/UHF fire dispatch

[mattguzinski]

Does any fire depatments in Adams and Weld Counties use VHF/UHF for dispatch? Thank you.

 

[KD2DLL]

Does any fire depatments in Adams and Weld Counties use VHF/UHF for dispatch? Thank you.

Most likely yes. I am not familiar with the area but if they have volunteer departments and use minitor pagers to alert them, they would have to be analog on lo band, VHF or UHF. No pagers can receive a digital or trunked system. Only analog.

 

[cifd64]

Look in the database!

 

[scanlist]

And now a post NOT from the East Coast.

Station tone and voice paging yes. Dispatch no.

Adams has multiple agency paging on 460.375, 460.525, 460.550 (North Metro Fire) and 460.575.

Weld has multiple agency paging on two VHF frequencies:

154.145 Fire North
153.785 Fire South

 

[mattguzinski]

Thank you Scanlist, my Pro 106 broke so I have to use my PSR100 so I was checking on what departments are still using VHF/UHF.

 

[rfburns]

No pagers can receive a digital or trunked system. Only analog.

Not true. An example of a digital pager is the Motorola Advisor Elite which uses FLEX Synchronous protocol. That's Frequency Shift Keying generally at 1600 bps due to bandwidth limitations and simulcasting limitations. FSK is a digital mode.

Many agencies utilize FLEX paging (thou their use is decreasing) either using the service of a public paging company or by using their own infrastructure. The latter is probably waning due in part to narrow banding.

RTL-SDR can be used to decode FLEX transmissions.
RTL-SDR Tutorial: POCSAG Pager Decoding - rtl-sdr.com

 

[dirtfinder]

No pagers can receive a digital or trunked system. Only analog.

Morgan county pages their FD's county wide on the 800mhz system ... last time I ran procom it even showed the page going out

But to the OP question we are paged out on 460.400 out here on the east side of the county (Weld)

 

[KD2DLL]

Not true. An example of a digital pager is the Motorola Advisor Elite which uses FLEX Synchronous protocol. That's Frequency Shift Keying generally at 1600 bps due to bandwidth limitations and simulcasting limitations. FSK is a digital mode.

Many agencies utilize FLEX paging (thou their use is decreasing) either using the service of a public paging company or by using their own infrastructure. The latter is probably waning due in part to narrow banding.

RTL-SDR can be used to decode FLEX transmissions.
RTL-SDR Tutorial: POCSAG Pager Decoding - rtl-sdr.com

I guess I should have been more specific, analog voice.

Morgan county pages their FD's county wide on the 800mhz system ... last time I ran procom it even showed the page going out

But to the OP question we are paged out on 460.400 out here on the east side of the county (Weld)

I'm not familiar with the area, but maybe the 800mhz dispatch is using a simulcast onto a VHF or UHF frequency? I have not seen a 800 MHz voice pager (except a radio that has two tone decoding).

 

[owenbricker]

VHF/ UHF paging

Looks like a VHF page simulcast to the trunking system, this is done in a lot of counties here in ohio. looks like 158.8200. morgan co.

 

[FiremanSparky]

Are any of the VHF/UHF frequencies listed in the Database for Adams County Public safety agencies utilized anymore? I haven't heard anything lately on North Metro FD simulcast UHF frequency, for example.

Thanks

 

[scanlist]

Meanwhile a guy in Colorado posts a reply

158.8200 in Morgan County is a tone voice paging system for all agencies in the county.
158.9400 in Morgan County may still be used for fire/ems paging.

North Metro 460.550 has always been tone voice station paging only since the department went 800 years ago and never simulcast the 800 radio traffic.

As mentioned in the earlier post 460.375, 460.525 and 460.575 are still active for station paging.

Thornton Fire 453.7000 went tone only since the split from ADCOM dispatch a few years ago.

Federal Heights Fire may have station paging on 453.9000.

Bennet fire used 154.250 for station paging. May still be active.

460.075 was shut down at the end of 2012 when the narrowband rules went into effect.