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Scanning St. Lucie County'sNew
800 MHz System
As
many of you have discovered, most of the government agencies in St. Lucie have
begun using the new 800 MHz trunked radio system supplied by Motorola. This
has resulted in a number of calls by scanner users because they can no longer
hear their favorite police department or fire units. Actually,
while the new system offers greatly improved coverage, significant reduction in
interference, far better clarity, and most of all, interoperability for all the
radios in the County, it can, and is, still easily monitored by the general
public. All
that is needed is a 800 MHz scanner. The new ‘Trunk Tracker’ type of scanner
will work the best, but even a regular 800 MHz scanner will allow listening to
all of the conversations that were available on the old systems. Here’s
how: First, program your scanner with the channel frequencies exactly as listed
below. Chan Frequency
Chan
Frequency 1
868.7875
11
867.7750 2
868.7500
12
867.7500 3
868.6750
13
867.7000 4
868.3000
14
867.6000 5
868.2750
15
867.2750 6
868.2500
16
867.2000 7
868.2000
17
867.1250 8
868.0875
18
866.7000 9
868.0500
19
866.3125 10
867.8375
20
866.2000 If
you are using a regular 800 MHz scanner, lock out channel 1 as it is the control
channel. You can now hear a random sampling of everything on the system. If
you have a trunk scanner, here are some of the more useful talk groups: Talk
Group name
Motorola # Radio
Shack/Uniden # Old
Equivalent Sheriff
Office, Patrol
0021
0336 SO
Main Sheriff
Office, EMERG 0021E
0338 10-34 Sheriff
Office, NCIC 0043
0688 SO
Chan 4 Sheriff
Office, Traffic 0039
0624 new Ft.
Pierce PD
0179
2864 FPPD
Chan 2 Ft.
Pierce PD EMERG 0179E
2866 10-34 Ft.
Pierce Records
0141
2256 FPPD
Chan 3 Ft.
Pierce PD Ch 4
0159
2544 FPPD
Chan 4 PSL
PD Main 0207
3312 PSLPD
Main PSL
PD EMERG 0207
3314 10-34 PSL
PD Records
0209
3344 PSLPD
10-92 PSL
PD Traffic
0219
3504 new FD
COM1 0079
1264 SLFD
Chan 1 FD
EMERG 0079E
1266 new FD
EMS1 0083
1328 SLFD
Ch 5 (Med 9) FD
TAC 1 0087
1392 SLFD
Chan 15 FD
TAC2 0089
1424 new FD
TAC3 0091
1456 new FD
TAC4 0093
1488 new St.
Lucie Med Center
0103
1648 new Lawnwood
RMC 0101
1616 new Martin
Mem MC
0117
1872 new Wide
Area 911
0337
5392 new Wide
Area Law
0339
5424 new Wide
Area Fire
0341
5456 new Wide
Area Comm
0343
5488 new Wide
Area EMG1
0349
5584 new Wide
Area EMG2
0351
5616 new Wide
Area EMG3
0353
5648 new Wide
Area EMG4
0355
5680 new Changes
in operation are the Fire District Rescue units call the Hospital on the
Hospitals Talk Group. The old MED channels, while still in place, will no longer
be used for normal EMS operation. Also,
every radio in the system is programmed with the ‘Wide Area’ groups. This id
for interoperability throughout the County in the event of a disaster. A
more detailed list will be available in the future on the St. Lucie County
website under Public Safety. |