Radio Frequencies
The following frequencies are utilized by the Fayette County 911 Center in
communications
with all of the emergency services providers in Fayette County.
| Channel Use | Radio Frequency |
| Fire Dispatch & Pager Activation | 33.700 MHz 155.190 MHz |
| EMS Dispatch & Pager Activation | 155.295 MHz |
| Brownsville Police | 155.190 MHz |
| No Longer used by 911 Center but may be used by local police departments as a tactical channel. | 155.130 MHz 155.250 MHz |
| Washington Township Police Belle Vernon Police |
155.565 MHz |
| Police Secondary State & Federal Parks to 911 Ohiopyle Boro Police |
155.010 MHz |
| 800 MHz Trunked Radio System. These channels cover all Fire, EMS, and Police operations and dispatching for the County | 855.4625 MHz 857.4625 MHz 858.4625 MHz 859.4625 MHz 860.4625 MHz 858.2375 MHz 860.2375 MHz |
| Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMARS) | 453.525 MHz |
| National Weather Service IFLOWS System | 170.275 MHz |
| MA01_ALL (Mount Davis Repeater) for coverage along the eastern fringe of Fayette County in the Markleysburg-Youghiogheny River Valley area at the Yough Lake and for coverage in Western Somerset county for Mutual Aid operations | 860.9875 MHz |
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Currently, Fayette County 911 is operating a two-site simulcast Motorola Smartnet Type
II
Trunked Radio System. All of the Fire departments and all but one of the ambulance
services
are utilizing the Trunked Radio System. Numerous Police Departments are utilizing
the
Trunked Radio System with the remaining police departments working on purchasing
the radios to work on the trunked radio system.
The following information will be needed to set up your Trunk Tracker
Scanner:
Fayette County 911 is operating a Motorola Smartnet Type II Trunked System with a
multitude of Type I fleets/subfleets and Type II talkgroups. The following fleet map
will help you in your venture to monitor the Fayette County 911 Trunked Radio System.
Fayette County 911 Fleet Map |
|
Block # |
Size Code |
Block 0 |
S-0 |
Block 1 |
S-0 |
Block 2 |
S-0 |
Block 3 |
S-0 |
Block 4 |
S-0 |
Block 5 |
S-0 |
Block 6 |
S-10 |
Block 7 |
S-10 |
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The Type II Talkgroups are broke down into several tables detailing each service.
The
MA Channels are duplicated in all blocks for ease of reference..
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Notes:
* With the exception of some of the radios on the system, an
alpha-numeric display is provided
on the radio that displays the complete channel name as displayed in Column 1.
Certain Radios,
such as the Motorola GTX series radios only display a 2 digit identifier such as 1A 1B,
etc.
This is why there are 2 channel names for the same channel. The 911 dispatcher will
advise
ops channel as "Your Operations Channel is FD09, 2A".
** All announcement talk groups operate as follows: An
Announcement group gives the
dispatcher an easy way to transmit a priority message to all radios on any channel
operating
within a certain group. As an example: If a radio is selected to receive any channel
in the FD
group (except the MA channels) and a dispatcher transmits a message on FD_ANNCE then
all radios that have an FD channel selected will here the announcement regardless of which
FD channel that the radio is operating.
*** Operations channels are assigned at the discretion of the 911
Dispatcher and 911
Dispatch Policy.
**** A general chit-chat channel has been designated in each of the
services for the ease of
non-emergency traffic. Anything and everything could appear here. This could
be thought
of as the CB Channel 19 of our trunked radio system.
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***** A channel has been established to provide backup communications
with Allegheny Power.
One radio is in Greensburg the other is at the Lake Lynn Power Plant for APS. Other
users are on
this channel. This channel provides a comm link between 911/EMA and APS for Lake
Lynn.
It also provides a backup link for APS Greensburg to communicate with the Lake Lynn Power
Plant. Flood waters that rise take out the microwave link between Lake Lynn Power
Plant and
the rest of the APS system. Unfortunately when that happens, their telephones at
Lake Lynn
Power Plant go out. Hence the need for this backup communications link.
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This list may be copied and utilized however the user wishes. The only exceptions are:
If this list is placed on another Web Page either in part or in whole, please
e-mail
Fayette County 911 and advise the address of the Web Page that will contain this
information
If this list is linked to from another Web Page, please e-mail Fayette County 911
and advise the address of the referring page.
Fayette County 911 wishes to maintain the most accurate information when regarding
scanning of the Trunked Radio System. Locations of Links and information either in
whole or in part are desired so that periodic checks can be made to ensure that the
up to date information exists.
Email Tony Alviar for more information
Copyright 1998 Fayette County 911