Issue 23 - Scanner Digest Newsletter

tractor in a travel lane on I290 - so they dropped thetrailer right in the roadway, and grabbed a passingtractor to tow it into the breakdown lane)This info might give you a little insight into which frequencies arebeing used in which Zones, and which traffic is being carried fromout of the area.On a different note, 159.03 are still carrying State Police trafficunits on the Mass Turnpike (I-90) in Boston. Usually just thedispatcher is heard, but once in a while a State Police unit comesover the repeater. I would bet that they are patching the VHFsystem to the 800 MHz system at this time. The dispatcher hasbeen heard communicating with Service Truck 700 and variouspolice units - both underneath the Prudential Tower and onHarborside Drive in East Boston. (This is probably the E-4 MSPdispatcher who controls the Mass Turnpike Extension andpossibly all 3 of the cross-harbor tunnels). The repeater isapparently either low powered or at a low elevation.CONNECTICUTLCD FIREGROUND (SCENE) CHANNELSKeith Victor44 Suffolk DriveEast Hartford CT 06118alarmroom@juno.comBARKHAMSTED 155.8125 MHz D072 (4)Barkhamsted EastPleasant ValleyRivertonKENT 155.8125 MHz D072 (4)SALISBURY 155.8125 MHz D072 (4)LakevilleSalisbury AmbulanceNEW HARTFORD 155.8275 MHz D025 (5)Pine MeadowSouthendNew Hartford AmbulanceNORTH CANAAN 155.8275 MHz D025 (5)CanaanNorth Canaan AmbulanceCANAAN 156.0075 MHz D051 (6)Falls VillageHARWINTON 156.0075 MHz D051 (6)Harwinton West SideHarwinton AmbulanceLITCHFIELD 155.8125 MHz D172 (7)BantamEast LitchfieldNorthfieldLitchfield AmbulanceNORFOLK 155.8125 MHz D172 (7)Norfolk AmbulanceCOLEBROOK 155.8275 MHz D125 (8)ForgeColebrook CenterWARREN 155.8275 MHz D125 (8)HARTLAND 156.0075 MHz D152 (9)East HartlandWest HartlandWASHINGTON 156.0075 MHz D152 (9)Washington AmbulanceCORNWALL 155.8125 MHz D271 (10)ROXBURY 155.8125 MHz D271 (10)Roxbury AmbulanceGOSHEN 155.8275 MHz D205 (11)MORRIS 155.8275 MHz D205 (11)BRIDGEWATER 156.0075 MHz D244 (12)SHARON 156.0075 MHz D244 (12)The Main Dispatch channel is: 155.1075 MHz 82.5LCD Command channel is: 155.1225 MHz D532LCD Operations Repeater is: 155.0925 MHz D465LCD Traffic (Fire Police) 158.3025 MHz D532LCD Airtac (Lifestar/Trooper 1) 150.7900 MHz 203.5LCD Interoperations 154.6650 MHz 141.3*• Former State Police ChannelIntra County UHF Channel 463.9250 MHz 192.8Dispatch SignalsSignal 1 Emergency-Involving LCDSignal 2 Emergency-Wide Area IncidentSignal 23 Emergency IncidentSignal 33 Medical IncidentSignal 50 Fire IncidentSignal 85 Radio TestSignal 100 Drill/Training IncidentSignal 200 Non-Emergency IncidentResponse SignalsSignal 43 Responding to stationSignal 45 Awaiting crewSignal 53 Responding to incidentSignal 30 On sceneSignal 31 Enroute to EMS destinationSignal 32 AT EMS destinationCommand SignalsSignal 54 Under controlSignal 71 Clear of sceneSignal 52 In service and availableSignal 80 Incident completedThis is from the LCD Radio System Operational Protocol ManualUpdate 1/21/2003For those of you that follow the utilities on the radio theConnecticut Water Company are changing from the low bandchannel of 47.700 MHz to a repeaterized UHF channel of462.1250 MHz. On the low band they used 114.8 as a PL butwhen they change they may not so if you hear them pleaseadvise me on the PL. The repeaters will be located in:Danielson, Guilford, Naugatuck, Old Saybrook, Plainfield,Plymouth, South Windsor, and Tolland. As you can see this isquite a rather large network, remember there are still otherusers on this business channel.MILITARYDaniel Myers KB3IBQ823 Horsham Rd.Horsham, Pa 19044-1209domyers@voicenet.comAs spring fast approaches some of our thoughts are about theupcoming air show season. Below is a report from the last airshow I attended in 2002 and what we might expect for 2003.NAS Oceana 2002 Air Show ReportSCANNER DIGEST NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 23 PAGE 3