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mike_s104 said:
I got some hits on these in the past few days:

9039 - I believe its a WVSP channel. Heard unit 414 calling Charles Town
1993 - Unknown

Also caught a lot of traffic last week of DNR and WVSP watching people fishing...

According to my old dB, 090** = WV SP and 01993 = Region 2 (eastern panhandle) interop channel. YMMV.
 

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I wonder what in the world would possess Charleston PD to program Berkeley MedCom MED-A into their hand units as a tactical channel? During Billary's visit to Charleston last week, they were using it as a traffic (as in vehicular) control channel -- until a Martinsburg medics came on with a patient report to MedCom. Charleston stopped using the channel, and I figured they'd learned their lesson.

But they came back up on it tonite (calling it "Channel 3"). And once again, it took a patient report (this time, from a critical patient in transport) to get them to go to a proper Kanawha County tac channel. [They even had the audacity to call it "that medic interference."] Wow. What are they thinking? Do you think they figure, "Berkeley County, that's so far away they'll never hear us from here!" ?
from the way i see it, the person who programs these radios doesnt know how to program... i know other radios that was programmed incorrectly, and lets hope that a life does not depend on that one channel that is supposed to be a main channel, which actually is a tac channel, but labeled as a main channel... it is crazy that hobbyist know more about the system than the "system administrators/programmers"
 

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TG 1157 - Martinsburg

Martinsburg PD units are on TG 1157 running tags through Martinsburg PD. That TG is labeled as Shariff's Dept - Special Events 1. The normal Martinsburg PD TG is being used as well.
 

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Caught some testing on TG 1507 on the Jefferson Co. site. I know this used to be a Charles Town PD TG, but they haven't used in a long time.

Also, caught TG 1155 traffic. It sounded like a FD TG; I could tell from the traffic sounding like it was through the breathing apparatus (kind of a muffled sound). The RID is 110653 which falls in place with County Fire. Has anyone else seen this TG before? Have any idea what/who it is? I swear it was fire when I heard it but it falls in place with BCSO/MPD TGs.

I submitted a change to the RR DB for TG 8021. I suggested it be moved to Martinsburg PD group, but all RIDs are 80xxx. I suggested the change on some other info. A few RIDs show up on Martinsburg PD TG and the Sheriff's Office TG. Haven't seen it on the Troop 2 Dispatch TG. I have a "hunch" that its also being used in Jefferson County, not just the tower there but Ops there. If that is the case, I would suggest it is probably "Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Crime Task Force". Anyone else in other area see this on other sites?

I really wished I had time to make an Excel spreadsheet for all unknown TGs for the Berkeley Co. and Jefferson Co. sites.

EDIT: I quickly threw together an Excel spreadsheet with unknown TGs. Ones with only the RIDs are from Unitrunker. I didn't record TGs that had the RID as 0 (zero). If anyone wants to add or update, please feel free.
 
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Every once in awhile I fire up the Jefferson site just for the heck of and let it run. I will do so this Sat night (because that is the time that it will likely be in use) and see what happens. Hopefully will be able to snag any tgs in use, and post here. Usually the only time that I listen to the Berkely System at the house is when I hear WVSP traffic on conventional indicating an interesting incident in progress or when actualling travelling to or through that county. I don't have Excel installed, so am unable to see your posted data.
 

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JESSERABBIT said:
Every once in awhile I fire up the Jefferson site just for the heck of and let it run. I will do so this Sat night (because that is the time that it will likely be in use) and see what happens. Hopefully will be able to snag any tgs in use, and post here. Usually the only time that I listen to the Berkely System at the house is when I hear WVSP traffic on conventional indicating an interesting incident in progress or when actualling travelling to or through that county. I don't have Excel installed, so am unable to see your posted data.


http://www.openoffice.org/ for a free office application.

also, I may set up another scanner with UniTrunker for the Jefferson Co. site as well. I'd like to get another 996T soon too.

have you thought about adding a system with the Berkeley Co. CC in scan mode for the known state PD and other TGs? that way you can get the WVSP without Martinsburg and Berkeley Co? you'll also get the Charles Town PD TGs on the Berkeley Co. site until they move over to the Jefferson Co. site.this is what I do for scanning Jefferson Co.
 
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Updated Excel file for unidentified TGs on the Berkeley Site. If only a few people want this, I can email to you all and not keep posting here, just let me know.
 
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Tg 9189

Caught some Fire Marshal traffic on 9189 on the Berkeley Co. site. The PC I have Unitrunker running on was off due to a brief power outage the other day and I have not put it on a UPS yet so I do not have a RID on this traffic.

Would this mean that maybe 9187 is Fire Marshal 4 and 9189 is Fire Marshal 5?
 

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Tg 8021

Just a thought...

I've have a feeling that this is used for surveillance as well as serving search warrants and "they" are dispatched through Martinsburg PD and have "their" own facility. They also "may" have the ability to talk to other locations like Clarksburg in Harrison County and Elkins in Randolph Co. (noted just now talking to Clarksburg). Clarksburg is the Northern Office for the US Marshals. This only leaves Fairmont in Marion Co. and Wheeling in Ohio Co. to be noted which have Fed. Courts same as Martinsburg, Clarksburg and Elkins. I know there is an office in Martinsburg since I've heard it mentioned before and was in the news a while back for the contractor that was hired to re-roof the office was using illegals. All Federal Court House locations in the Northern District have the WVIRP up. (As a side note, all sites in the Southern District with the exception of Wood Co. (Parkersburg) have sites up as well.)

http://www.usmarshals.gov/district/navigation/wv.htm

I wonder if this TG is used for the US Marshals, Northern District? TGs 8011 and 8003 that I've heard long ago were encrypted just like 8021. None conform to other TG series. All RIDs are 80xxx. RIDs 80131, 80132 and 80133 have not shown (from my logging) up on TG 8021. I've seen a few the RIDs listed show up on Matinsburg PD and Berkeley Co. Sheriff's Office TGs, but not very often. They could be a combined group to make up the Eastern Pan Handle Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force which would make sense why they would be in Martinsburg, Berkeley Co and Jefferson County. Quote from : http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/502460.html
"The United States Marshals Services UFAP Fugitive Task Force is made up of officers from the West Virginia State Police, Berkeley County Sheriffs Office, Martinsburg City Police, Shepherdstown City Police, Charles Town City Police, Harpers Ferry Police, Jefferson County Sheriffs Department and Ranson City Police Departments."

Anyone else have info on these or have seen them pop up on the county sites listed above?
 
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I was under the impression that the 80 TGs and RIDs were federal. Not sure where I heard that, though.
 

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updates to unknown TGs

9305 "Hardy County to Charleston Control" 06/16/08
RIDs: 099101 (Hardy), 099104 (Charleston Control)


9307 "Hardy County to Charleston Control" 06/16/08, no reply
 
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Raleigh County 911 will be involved in a mock drill for DC evacuation plans for a dirty bomb on Tuesday and Wednesday. I wonder if they will be on the IRP system for that and is any other county will be doing that.
 

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Raleigh County 911 will be involved in a mock drill for DC evacuation plans for a dirty bomb on Tuesday and Wednesday. I wonder if they will be on the IRP system for that and is any other county will be doing that.


I could see Berkeley, Jefferson, Hampshire and maybe Morgan since they would be the first ones hit with the flood of people heading west. Where did you hear or read this? Is this just local or WV only?
 
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Two days! That is one heck of a drill. I should be able to listen. Will set the radio into open mode and let-er- run. Imagine someone uninformed scanning and hearing THAT traffic if they don't announce "test-test-test".
 
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