Willingboro NJ Help

[robocop80]

I am going to Willingboro NJ this weekend and I would like to program them in my scanner. If I am not mistaken they are on the Burlington County Trunking system. That trunking system is very large and I would like to make sure I program it correctly in my BCD396T. I am using ARC396 to program the scanner with. Can someone tell me if I need to program all of the systems under Burlington County if I don't would you kindly let me know which system I need to program. In addition what talkgroups would I need to program in Willingboro PD, FD and EMS.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[policefreak]

Hello. Hope you have a safe trip to Willingboro. You will need to program the North Central system in your 396. You will want to put in the North Central Response talkgroups for fire and EMS, Countywide Medic for paramedics (Medic 31, 32, 34 usually respond in the general area) and for police you will want to program in P-9 which is used almost exclusively by Willingboro PD. Also in a separate conventional bank you will want to program 154.22 which is dispatch for all fire/ems in Burlington County. 154.265 is called South Jersey Net and is a common frequency for all helicopter operations and highway incident response. Willingboro is District 16 for all Fire, EMS and Police units. So each unit will have a 4 digit unit identification number beginning with 16. On NorthCentral Response the fire apparatus will be between 16-1, 16-2, and 16-3. Willingboro ambulance units are 16-9. Police units go into the 16-100's I believe. Have fun listening. By the way, how will you be getting there? The turnpike or Rt. 295?

 

[robocop80]

Thank you for all of the helpful information. I will be taking the turnpike on down. Im coming from North Brunswick so Exit 9 to Exit 5.

 

[policefreak]

Here is some additional information on Burlington County TRS.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=1320

That way you can flip back and forth easily .

Either way you come you'll end up traveling through the North Response zone of Burlington county (Burlington City, Burlington Twp, Florence, Bordentown) and you will see these towns along the way. Some of them (Burlington Twp. and Burlington City) sometimes respond into Willingboro with ambulances.

Also on the North Central system you will hear almost all the talkgroups in the county. So if you want to listen countywide just program the rest of them in and listen away. Lots of stuff happens in this county. Just fyi the towns that border Willingboro are Mt. Laurel to the southeast (on Northwest Response-Dist 36), Delran and Edgewater Park to the Southwest (Northwest Response-Dist 23 and 14 respectively), Burlington Twp to the Northwest (North Response-Dist 30, 90 for ambulance), and Mt. Holly to the North (North Central Response-Dist 50). There are more towns that I just cant think of right now!! But you'll want to give these a listen. Again, enjoy and have a safe trip down.

Yours truly,
Policefreak

 

[jrb6940]

When you listen to P9, you may only hear three digit units (ie 181, 114 etc). As previously mentioned by policefreak, P9 is just about exclusive to Willingboro (16). Therefore, the police officers only use their 3 digit badge number to identify themselves to the dispatcher and dont preface their radio numbers with their district (how it is supposed to be done in Burl Co). Instead of saying 16-181 ("sixteen one eight one") they may just say "one-eight-one" or "one eighty one" etc.....hope this helps. It confused me at first, years ago!

All other previously posted info is dead on!

Have a safe trip!

 

[robocop80]

Perfect. Many Thanks to the both of you. I am all programmed and ready to go.

Thanks,

James

 

[ComOp1]

Willingboro

Enjoy your visit to the 'Boro. Was this a contest win? 1st prize a weekend in Willingboro, 2nd prize a week in Willingboro. I live there for the last 47 years.

Good info already provided on the trunk system, only thing to add if there is an all hands in service event on Response 1, any companies or EMS units in that Zone that are not involved in the incident are advised to moved to Response 2 in that zone until the situation is under control or TG is released by the IC.

In addition to the conventional channels listed, don't forget the operation channels. The most common use is for on scene fire communications. Police and EMS also have them to use but only use them on a case-by-case basis. Most of the coms are on portables, woulld need to be fairly close to receive anything
OPS 1 500.1875 Fire/EMS
OPS 2 500.2875 Fire/EMS
OPS 3 503.1875 PD
OPS 4 503.2875 PD
OPS 5 506.0375 Open Originally for Ground- helicopter communications
OPS 6 506.1375 General use
OPS 7 506.2375 General use
OPS 8 509.0375 General use
OPS 9 509.1375 County facilities
OPS 10 509.2375 Fire Police
WAR-A1 500.0875R Wide Area Repeater
WAR-A2 500.1125R Wide Area Repeater
WAR-A3 506.1875R Wide Area Repeater
All above PL 127.3
Willingboro Twp also has a municipal govt freq 153.980, probably will not hear anything on the weekend
There is also an amateur repeater in Willingboro 146.925
Also, NJ Transit Riveline Light Rail Line runs through adjacent towns west of Willingboro, NJT PD uses 161.190

Take Care
David

 

[robocop80]

I am in Willingboro now and I noticed that westampton police is patrolling the area. I am sure I have there talkgroup programmed in but could someone tell me which talkgroup is westampton. Is it also on P9

 

[ComOp1]

Willingboro

Westampton is on North Central P3, probably not patroling just crossing over into town. Westampton borders the east side of town. All police agencies in the county have their radios programed with all of the Police talk groups and primary conventional PD freqs used in the county.

 

[BCC183]

I am in Willingboro now and I noticed that westampton police is patrolling the area. I am sure I have there talkgroup programmed in but could someone tell me which talkgroup is westampton. Is it also on P9

Westampton highway patrol... They like to find violations driving through Westampton, then wait to stop them in Willingboro because Willingboro cops will more then likely back them up and be prepared if the situation requires anything more then a ticket. (Friendly Sarcasim)