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BC250D handheld portable can be used in conjunction with theBCi25D digital module that can be plugged in either unit. Totalcost will set you back close to $700. This is needed to currentlylisten to public safety communications coming out of bothPhiladelphia and Bucks County PA.I did a quick search of reputable scanner dealers and found thatNational Electronics had the best deal going. For thosecontemplating a purchase of new digital capable system it isrecommended that you check out the various deals being offered.Be sure to calculate the shipping costs as you search for the best“bottom-line” price.National Electronics Tel. 913-888-8864POB 15417Shawnee Mission KS 66285Email:Web:sales@national-electronics.comwww.national-electronics.comUniden BC785D $339.95Uniden BC250D $339.95Uniden BCi25D $289.95Typical shipping expense of either the base/mobile or portablescanner with the plug-in board via UPS ground from Kansas tothe east coast is approximately $13.00.Philadelphia Trunked Radio SystemUniden ID Motorola TG Band Districts0016 001 Far-Northeast Band 7, 80048 003 Northeast Band 2, 150080 005 North-Central Band 22, 230112 007 Central Band 6, 9, Center City0144 009 South Band 1, 170176 00B Southwest Band 12, 18, University City (UC)0208 00D West Band 16, 190240 00F North Band 14, 350272 011 Northwest Band 5, 390304 013 East Band 24, 260336 015 25 Band 250464 01D South 2 Band 3, 4, South Street0368 017 J Band City-Wide 1/Administrative0400 019 T Band Traffic0432 01B M Band City-Wide 20496 01F Special Events 10528 021 Special Events 2Philadelphia Fire DepartmentUniden ID Motorola TG Use3792 0ED North Fire Band3824 0EF South Fire Band3856 0F1 North Medic Band3888 0F3 South Medic Band4144 103 Fire All Group4176 105 PPD/PFD 14208 107 PPD/PFD 24368 111 EOC-14400 113 EOC-24432 115 EOC-3/Second Alarmers4464 117 EOC All GroupThe information provided on Philadelphia’s new 800MHz digitaltrunked radio system was courtesy of Joe Cardani. Completeinformation can be obtained by contacting Joe directly at his website. www.PhillyScanner.comEASTERN PENNSYLVANIASteve Bower Jr.POB 942Fogelsville PA 18051-0942Steve1Radio@aol.comHello everyone, Welcome once again to another edition of theScanner Digest!! Hope you all had a joyous and happy holidayseason!!Our Christmas will be one to remember, It first started around10pm on Christmas Eve, SNOW!! This turned into rain Christmasmorning and turned back over to heavy snow. Let’s just say byabout 1:30pm Christmas day we had NO POWER!! Trees werestarting to crackle down and electrical lines down. Our Christmasdinner was prepared on a wood stove and grill. It was fun though,Since it was too cold on Friday night we stayed at a relativesplace until we got power back on Friday morning early. Someareas did not receive power until late Sunday.With the power interruption my new toy got some use out of theRadio Shack PRO-95 Dual Trunk scanner. There are some goodand bad details about this scanner but over all for the price it is asteal!! Would like to thank Santa (My Wife) again who got it forme!This is what we have found so far, Special thanks to L. Snyder ofBerks County for all his help:GPU – Met Ed (Metropolitan Edison Company)Reading, Pa. (EDACS System)Note:1011 st frequency MUST Be in Channel 01 of the bank!! Ex:856.3875, 857.3875, 858.3875, 859.3875, 860.3875, 860.7625System I860.7625, 859.7625, 858.7625, 857.7625, 856.7625,System IIBoth systems inter-connect with each other; Reading, Easton,Hamburg, Lebanon Service areas in Pa.Tracker Code:0610 Reading Line – Dispatcher0578 Lebanon Line – Dispatcher0620 Boyertown Line – Dispatcher0621 Hamburg Line – Dispatcher0580 Lebanon Line – Business OfficeThere are many different talk groups in that system, These werethe most active. A lot of the Easton units sounded to be sometype of Digital system?Once again special note: FREQUENCIES MUST BE LISTED INORDER FOR TRUNKING TO WORK. SET TO ED SYSTEM,START WITH FIRST CHANNEL IN BANK. (Ex: M101 notchannel M100)855.2125, 856.4375, 856.9375, 857.4375, 858.4375, 859.9375,859.4375, 858.9375, 860.9375MhzAll are in EDAC Mode:Allentown Fire Dept. – Dispatch 2047Allentown Fire F-1 0529SCANNER DIGEST NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 23 PAGE 6
Allentown Fire F-2 0530Allentown Ambulance F-1 0785(Simulcast of 155.040 for City EMS old Police F-3, * See Note*)Allentown Ambulance F-2 0786EMS – to Lehigh Valley Hospital I-78 0849EMS – to LVH 17 th street 0850EMS – Sacred Heart (“The Heart”) 0851EMS – St. Luke’s – Allentown 0853EMS – LVH Muhlenberg 0854Police F-1 Dispatch 0273(Simulcast of 158.7900 for Police F-1)Police F-2 Scope 0274(Simulcast of 159.0900 for Police F-2, * See Note*)Police F-3 Desk 0275Police P-Events1 0289Police – Investigations 0276Parking Enforcement 1345Streets Department 1041Code Enforcement 1043Parks/ Recreation 1060EMS – to Medical Command 2045EMS – to Medical Command 2046There are many other talk ID’s that we have not confirmed whothey are, any help would be appreciated!! **Note Police F2 andold Police F-3 still have a Repeater System set-up in order tocommunicate with outer communities.158.7900 Police F-1 Dispatch159.0900 Police F-2 Scope155.0400 Allentown EMS F-1461.5000 Allentown School District – Operations502.9125 Allentown School District – Transportation154.5700 Allentown Fire Police AssociationAlso keep a listen on a few of the old Allentown City frequencies.The City must have transferred the following to Lehigh County,However none are in use at this time:453.4750 and 453.8250 KNHT865, Which was repeated andused for Allentown Fire. 156.2400 KKR207, Which was used forCity Streets Department has all been licensed to Lehigh County.Keep a listen and see what happens!!Keep an ear out on those new Lehigh County frequencies as well.154.2725, 151.0175, 150.7825, 153.7625 are set-up as FB2 andMO operations.Well that should do it from the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. I’mstill looking for your help out there!! If anyone is from theSusquehanna Valley or the Pocono area, I would like to hear fromyou. Happy New Year and as always Be Safe & Take Care!!Regards, Steve B.NEW HAMPSHIREJohn Bolducc/o Scanner DigestPOB 207 Jamison PA 18929N1qgs@yahoo.comA major fire in the generator building atop of Mt. Washingtonburned for 18 hours, destroying all 3 generators and thegenerator building. The five man observatory crew tried toextinguish the fire with twenty fire extinguishers to no avail. Theyhad to be rescued from the mountain top to prevent freezing todeath.This was the biggest fire on the summit of Mt. Washington sinceAugust 1915 when the Tip Top house burned down. The biggestfire on the mountain was in June 1908 when the Second SummitHouse and all other buildings, but one, were destroyed by fireThis knocked out or degraded communications for NH StatePolice, 2 FM radio stations, several governmental andcommercial 2-way outlets, and NOAA weather on 162.500.Affected WPKQ 103.7 is a clone of WOKQ 97.5 andmuch of their coverage overlaps.Also affected, WHOM 94.9 boasts that it has the largest land areasignal coverage of any FM station in America. There are a coupleof stations that have a wider signal radius, but much of theirsignal contours are over ocean, not land. WHOM is now on verylow power and their signal which could easily be heard over 100miles away even under bad conditions, is only heard in the Mt.Washington Valley. WHOM's parent company in the meantime isrelaying WHOM programming over 93.9 in the Portland ME area.93.9 previously was a clone of an another Maine based rockstation on 94.3.Londonderry Fire on 151.175 is now on a repeater with an inputof 156.1125. PL tone has changed from 136.5 to dpl 466.Franklin Pierce College in Rindge has their security operations on154.680 repeater with dpl 251.A new fire buff group is starting in the southern New Hampshirenorthern Massachusetts area. The dispatch channel is 461.125 /156.7.In the have it your way department, UHF links for 33.640 are inplace in the Milford / Brookline area. You can hear 33.640 / 136.5traffic on 453.6125 / 114.8, only hearing low band traffictransmitting the 136.5 tone. On the other hand, you can monitor453.3625 / 103.5 and hear low band traffic from 33.640regardless of low band PL tone.A few acquaintances have acquired the new Bearcat digitalcapable scanners and report very good results. NH State Police,all counties utilizing digital, Nashua, Concord, Claremont, Fishand Game are all heard successfully. The one gotcha with thenew scanner are systems that used mixed digital and analog,such as Hillsboro County on 155.520R. Dispatch is usually analogwhile the cruisers are digital. You only need to program thefrequency in your scanner in one location, despite the mixedmode.When switching from analog to digital, the scanner reactsimmediately. However, in the digital mode, the scanner will notswitch back to analog for about 10 seconds.Claremont Police, seems to be using analog a little bit more thanpreviously reported on 154.845R. On January 23-24, 2003 theywere entirely analog, I suspect they had system problems.South Hampton Fire, previously dispatched by Amesbury MA on158.955 / 203.5 is now dispatch by Rockingham County on154.190 / 136.5.SCANNER DIGEST NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 23 PAGE 7
Page 1: ISSUE 23 MARCH 2003PUBLISHERLou Cam
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