Washington County (SW Utah) Miscellaneous

[ronchaffin]

I just peeked at the Utah Right to Know web site. Enterprise has a population of about 1700. They pay over $350,000 to various department administrators, just found that interesting. There is a Town Marshall listed, part time, earning $3600 last year.

 

[ronchaffin]

And this from the Enterprise City news letter.

City Welcomes New County Sheriff:

Recently elected Washington County Sheriff Corey Pulsipher attended the Enterprise City council meeting on November 24th. He reviewed with the Council his plans for law enforcement for the Enterprise area. He discussed several educational and community involvement programs that he will be trying to promote in the future. The council expressed continued support for the Enterprise High School resource officer partnership that has been functioning for several years. Sheriff Pulsipher and the City Council both expressed the desire to continue the good working relationship that has existed with the County Sheriff’s department and our own City Marshall program. Resident deputies will continue to be a resource and Sheriff Pulsipher expressed his willingness to work with us to better meet immediate needs for certain local emergencies.

 

[Hooligan]

I haven't been around to hear any fire activity in Zion yet, but I've heard Springdale (the small community bordering the W side of Zion NPS) FD's EMS toned-out for Zion NP runs on the Washington County SO channel of 155.430/141.3Hz.

Tim

On a normal basis, it is Springdale FD's EMS that's paged-out for medical calls in Zion National Park. However, NPS Zion does have their own "Medic 1" vehicle that at times has been used to stand-by a SAR/medical scene & occasionally transport a patient.

I've never seen this "Medic 1," but hear it occasionally on the NPS Zion radio channels. Seems like it is usually parked where NPS Zion has their EOC, and not normally staffed. Next time I'm in the park, I'll look for it & get a photo to post here, but usually I try to stay out of Zion NP during the tourist season.

 

[Hooligan]

Do they have a structural fire truck or ambulance at Zion? Anyone ever hear them being paged out?

Today on the Zion NPS Ops channel I heard someone mention he was going to take "Engine 1" out to get it washed.

 

[Hooligan]

Late Saturday afternoon I decided to go check-out the Toquerville Hill LMR/MW site, which is one of the UCAN locations.

I still have more photos to upload, and one of these days I may post captions ID'ing the numerous compounds up there, but for now, the photos are at:

Toquerville Hill Bike Ride - a set on Flickr

Other big LMR & UCAN sites like Webb Hill & Utah Hill will be documented in the future.


Tim

 

[wbloss]

Late Saturday afternoon I decided to go check-out the Toquerville Hill LMR/MW site, which is one of the UCAN locations.

I still have more photos to upload, and one of these days I may post captions ID'ing the numerous compounds up there, but for now, the photos are at:

Toquerville Hill Bike Ride - a set on Flickr

Other big LMR & UCAN sites like Webb Hill & Utah Hill will be documented in the future.


Tim

GREAT Pix!

 

[zerg901]

Thanks for the updates on the Zion NP units

YouTube - ‪Yellowstone National Park, Park Ranger en route to Call‬‏ - this video shows a Yellowstone ambulance responding to a call. I suspect that Zion NP operates the same way. Whichever ranger is close to the ambulance drives it to the scene.

 

[Hooligan]

Just FYI, UCAN techs have been playing around with the Santa Clara simulcast site this week, but when I went by it late this afternoon, the site wasn't on the air. It's atop a water tank next-door to the Santa Clara Fire Station, just off Circle Drive (thanks to BChris for passing the location on to me). It has a small MW antenna that looks like it's pointed at Utah Hill.

 

[ronchaffin]

Washington Site of 46 ?

I was at Highland Park in Washington City a few week back. I noticed this atop the restrooms and thought it was worthy of a photo. Any Ideas. It too looks like it has a small white microwave dish pointed back to Utah Hill.

 

[Hooligan]

Wow, that's a lot of stuff there! Looks like a VSAT antenna too.

I've never been the type to loiter around children's playgrounds or public restrooms, but maybe my 396XT & I (& my SIG-Sauer P239!) will have to make an exception for this one sometime this week...

 

[woolsts]

The SGPD call signs are for example 7C which means that paticular officer is assinged to area 7 and the alpha, bravo, or charlie refers to the shift they are working. 7C in this example is assigned Area 7 on graveyard. Alpa is dayshift, bravo is swingshift, and charlie is graveyard. Sergeants use 101A (or B or C depending in shift). All have assigned 2X numbers but only use them when on special assigment. Hope this helps.

 

[Hooligan]

The SGPD call signs are for example 7C which means that paticular officer is assinged to area 7 and the alpha, bravo, or charlie refers to the shift they are working. 7C in this example is assigned Area 7 on graveyard. Alpa is dayshift, bravo is swingshift, and charlie is graveyard. Sergeants use 101A (or B or C depending in shift). All have assigned 2X numbers but only use them when on special assigment. Hope this helps.

Hmm, that sort of stuff was already figured-out/explained in a prior post.

But perhaps you can be of help, and identify the "240" call.

 

[Hooligan]

I was at Highland Park in Washington City a few week back. I noticed this atop the restrooms and thought it was worthy of a photo. Any Ideas. It too looks like it has a small white microwave dish pointed back to Utah Hill.

Thanks to Ron's lead, I've spent about an hour at that park on two occasions, just sitting in my car about 40' from the antennas & reading a book. The only Close-Call hit my BC-996XT got was frequent SCADA on 458.0625MHz. Seems like one of those antennas is the master site, & it was polling several other sites frequently. Of course, there's no licensee in Utah per the FCC database, and the steel door that leads into the radio room is unmarked.

 

[woolsts]

Hmm, that sort of stuff was already figured-out/explained in a prior post.

But perhaps you can be of help, and identify the "240" call.

The 240 call is a cover car that goes wherever it is needed in the city. Usually when a new officer is being Field Trained (FTO) they will use this call number.

 

[Hooligan]

The 240 call is a cover car that goes wherever it is needed in the city. Usually when a new officer is being Field Trained (FTO) they will use this call number.

OK, thanks for the info. That disagrees with what someone else told me, but I'll just keep paying extra attention when I occasionally hear "240" or "240 Alpha/Bravo."

One thing is for sure -- SGPD uses a pretty complex (& seemingly stupid, IMHO set of callsigns), but at least we've figured most of them out!

 

[Hooligan]

Sunday afternoon, SGPD had a "240 Alpha" & "240 Bravo" unit on the air. I assume this was an FTO arrangement, as Woolsts stated, as I think 240 Alpha told Control to be sure to log any arrests, etc. for them under under the name of Officer ____.

10 min later, another unit tries to call in-service as 240. He didn't know that identifier was already assigned, so now they're trying to figure out what identifier he should use. He suggests "210" & Control said OK, but then someone else jumped-in & told him to use 241.

So, I assume 240 was an FTO -- Alpha being the FTO & Bravo being the rookie, and 241 was a single-officer citywide car. Thanks again, Wool.

 

[zerg901]

WCUT-CDC

If you click on Resources on the left, you can see that Zion Natl Park has the following wildfire units - Chase 611 and 612 (probably pick up trucks) - Zion FMO (Fire Management Officer = wildfire chief) - Zion AFMO (Assistant FMO) Courtwright - Engine 611 is a Type 6 wildfire engine (maybe has 250 gallons of water) - Engine 612 is also a Type 6 - Squad 611 and Squad 612 are apparently the callsigns for the crews of E611 and E612 when they leave the vehicle (or maybe they are extra people for the Engines) - Zion 1 + Zion 2 + Zion 3 appear to be helitack crew members (they fly in the helo) - Zion Chase 1 + 2 + 3 (probably pickup trucks that chase the helo with fuel and supplys) - helitack might be based at Cedar City

I also see a Engine 665 Washington County Type 6 at Saint George - that might be operated by the State Forestry guys or the local FD under agreement with the State

 

[Hooligan]

Just FYI, the Washington County Fair starts up again next week. There are already some 'City of Fun Shows Inc' (Pleasant Grove, Utah) carnival trucks & trailers with rides & concession stands on them in the county fairgrounds parking lot.


I expect most of the comm stuff to be the same as last year (see my post #23) as not every Washington County public safety agency is up on UCAN, but this year there will probably be a cross-patch between 155.505 & a UCAN talk-group, either done by the UHP Mobile Comm Center, or perhaps one of the UCAN sites that has 155.505 capability.

This year I'm actually 'working' at the fair a couple times, so I will have more opportunity for up-close & personal radio geekery than last year, though I can pretty much hear everything from home, too. If you're attending the fair Wednesday or Saturday night, send me a PM...

The Washington County Fair is the second busiest local public safety radio comms planned event, after the St George Ironman.

 

[Hooligan]

I noticed today that Washington City PD seems to now be on 800MHz (UCAN) direct, instead of the patch with 155.610, which is still up too.

So this makes all the normal Washington County "East Law" channel users (Hurricane PD, DNR State Parks Quail Lake & Sand Hallow units, & Washington City PD) up on the 50048 UCAN TG instead of 155.610 (154.800).

While I expect they'll continue to keep the VHF bridge up for the time being, maybe it means that they'll finally shut-down the insane mess of multiple VHF & UHF point to point links that the 155.610 repeater has.

WSO is still on VHF, and I'm assuming the couple other LEAs that have been using the 155.430 WSO repeater for their ops are also still on VHF, though that channel is bridged with UCAN TG 50016.

 

[Hooligan]

Some Washington County UCAN updates:

49920 - SGPD 3

50040 -- "Ops 4" -- Not sure if it's a countywide channel, but I've heard Hurricane PD on it during a marathon that ran through several cities.

50112 -- Patch of Washington County 'Central' Fire 154.370 repeater

50240 -- heard in use by Hurricane PD during a marathon. Unsure if just a HPD channel, or countywide special events.

50848 -- Washington City DPS channel 2 (so far, just LE heard, not FD)

50628 -- Hurricane PD channel 2, Car/Car use

Hurricane, St George, State Parks & Washington City PDs seem to have pretty much migrated up to UCAN, however they do have VHF radios that they still use. Local UHP have both UCAN & VHF mobile radios & tend to use them interchangeably for the patched systems, though their handhelds are 800MHz.

All the agencies that use the county SO channel 1 (155.430/141.3Hz repeater) for dispatch still seem to just be on VHF, though there is a cross-patch to a UCAN TG. I heard some story about how the SO wasn't able to apply or get grants for UCAN radios because it was an election year for the sheriff. That doesn't make much sense to me, but is one reason (a better one would be UCAN coverage) that may explain why they're still on VHF.

As-usual, the Hildale/Colorado City Marshall is still in their own little world, on their own VHF repeater.


The St George Marathon is this Saturday. While not as big an event as the Ironman, it may reveal more local UCAN talk groups. Ditto for the Huntsman Senior Games, which take place next month.