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This is what I have gotten so far: UPDATED 3-5-05
06960 Law Enforcement East Tac 3 used for joint task force desert patrol
10992 B L S pioneer hosp
25424 gold cross disp
25520 fd tac channel
27312 aero medivac choppers
35824 caltrans
39312 Brawley pd Disp
39328 Brawley pd Tac 1
39344 Colexico PD Dispatch AKA station 5
39408 El Centro PD disp & Imperial PD BOTH
40560 El Centro PD Disp 2
41648 Imperial PD Tac 1
39440 Holtville pd
39472 El Centro so (CENTRAL) disp
39840 Brawley pd tac 2
40080 Calexico FD DISPATCH AKA station C
40096 Calexico FD tac
41104 Imperial county fd disp
41248 fd
41328 Imperial Fire ground 3 ?
42160 pioneer hosp
45456 pd inquirey
25488 Imperial County County Wide Hailing channel
47440 Fire command 1
12336 El Centro Regional

25456
26512
26544
26736
39488 (ISO) LEM ICSO CTAC /TAC1
40320 EL CENTRO FD
40784 Holtville FD
40816
41040
41056
41376 ICSO
41392 ICSO east DISP
41552 Some pd disp using
42512
42544 Some pd disp using
42560
42576

40784
40400

39440 is Holtville PD.

40080 is definetly Calexico FD (Main) and their secondary (man-to-man) is 40096. Station "C" is the dispatcher. The same dispatcher is also known as Station "5" for the PD.

Calexico PD is 39344. Due to "blank" areas and testing, they are using the conventional frequency 859.1250 for their main channel as of this date. All others, tac, investigations, etc. are still on digital. I sleep days and do not yet know what the Public Works number is.

My wife is a Calexico police officer and I just love her Motorola HT. I hate it though that I can't get get the Id's to match ours!!

I would LOVE to key the mike on my wife's HT, jp186, yet it's a big no-no since the log/screen would show each and every time the ID of the officer doing so at the station. Doing so would leave a record and I do not want to get my wife in trouble!

Guest... 25488 is an Imperial County Sheriff's Office (ICSO) #. It's ID/label is IMA COCALL. It is a mutual aid channel. ECFD is still bickering about the change-over. They are still at 153.890 and fiqure "IF it ain't broke, why fix it?" Of course, money and "politics" may be a factor too. Also as stated by 31, CHP still is using the 42 mhz band to this day.

Your welcome pocho!

Did you know that you can't pick up the control frequency and talkgroups up north in the Salton Sea area? There was nada, until I found 857.2250 and got ALL ICSO chatter (including fire) and also all of Brawley - Westmoreland and Calipatria only. Then when we came back home in EC, 857.2250 was no use and it was back to 865.2500 and the other one again. There is a big difference between the north and south range of Imperial County.

Now I have a question... At exactly 5:00 am on the dot, on Imperial County ID #/talkgroup 35760, it is used by a woman who says, "Good morning. Caltrans Maintenance is now online/open" or something to that effect. I'm puzzled because they are State and I have yet to hear any chatter on that channel after her announcement.

31, you wrote,

"If someone with connections to a radio would run trunker you wouldnt even have to key the radio to follow it do to auto affiliation."

Could you put that in digital newbie language for me?

My wife's Motorola ASTRO HT (black in color) is programmed with just the very basics you can get. So is my brother-in-law's (bright yellow in color). He is the Fire Chief of the all volunteer fire department up in Salton Sea Beach (a Salton Sea community).

As an example, neither my wife's or her brother's HT are capable of the use of "phone", private lines, encrypting, etc.. "Auto" and "trunker" are never shown on the built in screens either. They aren't even programmed to show the users ID#!

Also, in your sticky, it's Calexico - not Colexico.

Talkgroup #'s are never shown on the HT. All the "zones" and channels with their abbreviated words is what I will post. Later on, we can try to figure out/match with what means what and so on. Even if I removed the antenna, put the HT under the cushions of our couch and keyed it, my wife says it would still register her ID at the station(s).

31... El Centro PD (Station 3) is also the dispatcher for the city of Imperial PD (Station 4). The city of Imperial units/officers are always Id'ed as "Ocean" then number (such as Ocean 12) as to not confuse them with El Centro PD who use just regular ID numbers. What's funny though, is that both ECPD and the city of Imperial PD officers always say "One" or "Station One" when speaking to dispatch even though it is officially Station 3 for El Centro and Station 4 for Imperial. Also, Station 9 is Brawley PD (which is the dispatcher for Westmoreland and Calipatria too) and Station 10 is Holtville PD.

There are three female police officers in Calexico. Only one of them is married and is my wife. She goes by "Paul" eleven. Paul is short for patrol. When "they" fix the dead spots, she tells me that they will then go back to digital. Since Calexico is/was one of the last hold-outs to go to 800, a line-of-sight from the ICSO tower is still non-existant. I've seen the "map" and Calexico is visibly absent.

Gave up with the satcom40(& 400) ID here and re-registered as Scott47.

Scott

39488 (showing on my wife's HT) is LEM ISO CTAC I have heard more than a few deputies refer to it as TAC1.

41392 is definitely used by ICSO and I strongly suspect it is an East TG since I have only heard chatter coming from them from Hotlville all the way to Winterhaven.

41376 is also used by ICSO, yet not enough chatter to zero in on for its use.

40784 is Holtville Fire Department.

40320 is El Centro Fire Deptartment yet they still use 153.890 as their main frequency. I have heard the same PD station dispatch voices use both 40320 and 153.890 simutanuously when paging out for a "fire" call. FD always responds on vhf only. Testing going on? Time will tell. We had a motel burn down early morning on 2/28 and all fire traffic was used on 153.890, including their command post. Mutual aid was called in from Calexico, Imperial, Brawely, Calipatria, and even the Naval Air Station (Blue Angels winter training base) and ALSO a call for a ladder truck from Mexicali.

Listened and also watched, since it was only a block from my house, as to what was going on. Intersting to note that EL Centro (PD) dispatch uses 154.430 to page out both the city of Imperial and Calipatria for FD calls. Calipatria is closer to Brawley yet after many years, EC still is the dispatch for them. The same is true for Imperial even though that city has contracted with the county for their fire department needs. 41104 is used as the main "fire/rescue" TG everywhere else in this county except for this city/area. Go figure.

Scott

You can delete this post too, 31, since it is redundant. Any new info I gleam about it, I will post later on.

Scott

Ocotillo VFD is not dispatched by Heartland, and never has been. Heartland dispatches Ocotillo Wells VFD, but has never done so on a conventional frequency. Heartland took over dispatching the Inland departments from SDSO communications when the Inland Departments switched over to the RCS. Heartland has never been the dispatch center for any agency in Imperial County.

Jeff

scott47 wrote: and ALSO a call for a ladder truck from Mexicali.

Scott

Can you elaborte on this? How does that work with international boundries and such? Do they have some kind of mutual aid agreement with mexico?

You can delete this one too 31.

Scott

My wife is a Calexico police officer. The "Handie-Talkie" (HT) is the property of the city of Calexico and is issued to all police officers working for the city. They are allowed to take them home for recharging before returning back to duty.

Motorola ASTRO XTS 5000
Digital Portable Radio
Model 111
Model #: H18UCH9PW7AN
RSC TAG: TN10625

There are 10 ZONES with 16 channels in each ZONE programmed into this radio. Please do not confuse the word "ZONES" for geography zones in this region. I just go by with what is shown on the built in screen. All abbreviations on each channel in the ZONES are exactly what I am typing here.

The Zones are not numbered, but I will start out with the one my wife is currently using and number them myself.



ZONE 1: Conventional/Analog

Channel 1- CNV CLX RPT ---> 859.1250
2- CNV FIREMAR
3- CNV INTRSRV
4- CNV CLEMARS
5- CNV SDMARS
6- CNV CAR 1
7- CNV CAR 2
8- CNV CAR 3
9- CNV CAR 4
10- CNV ICALL ******* International hailing channel monitored on some mountains.
11- CNV ITAC 1
12- CNV ITAC 2
13- CNV ITAC 3
14- CNV ITAC 4
15 & 16- UNPROGRAMMED (Only tones are heard on these)

ZONE 2: Digital

Channel 1- CLX PD 1 ---> 39344
2- CLX PD2
3- CLX TAC 1
4- CLX TAC 2
5- CLX INV
6- CLX TRAF
7- CLX ADMN
8- CLX COCALL
9- CLX COTAC 1
10- CLX LE TAC 4
11- CLX LE TAC 3
12- CLX LE TAC 2
13- CLX LE TAC 1
14- CLX LE CMD
15- CLX ILE 2
16- CLX ILE 1

ZONE 3: Digital

Channel 1- LEM BRW DISP ---> 39312
2- LEM BRW TAC1 ---> 39328
3- LEM WML TAC1
4- LEM CPT TAC1
5- LEM ECN PD1 ---> 39408
6- LEM ECN TAC1
7- LEM HLT DISP ---> 39440
8- LEM HLT TAC1
9- LEM ISO CEN ---> 39472
10- LEM ISO CTAC ---> 39488
11- LEM ISO EAST ---> 41392
12- LEM ISO ETAC
13- LEM ECN CHPD
14- LEM ECN CHPT
15- LEM ILE 2
16- LEM ILE 1

ZONE 4: Digital

Channel 1- ILE LE CMD
2- ILE LE TAC 1
3- ILE LE TAC 2
4- ILE LE TAC 3
5- ILE LE TAC 4
6- ILE L/AIR
7- ILE M/AIR
8- ILE F/AIR
9- ILE REWARD (Only a tone is heard here) *******Dynamic regrouping channel. Steal or lose a radio and it's sent to this channel and a message says - turn it in and get $100.00 bucks.
10- ILE ILE 2
11- ILE ILE 1
12 to 16- UNPROGRAMMED (Only tones are heard on these)

ZONE 5: Digital

Channel 1- CTV CALL
2- CTV TAC 1
3- CTV TAC 2
4- CTV TAC 3
5- CTV TAC 4
6- CTV FDISP
7- CTV FCMD 1
8- CTV FTAC 1
9- CTV ROADS
10- CTV WATER
11- CTV SEWER
12- CTV FACM
13 to 16- UNPROGRAMMED (Only tones are heard on these)

ZONE 6: Digital

Channel 1- TFO TFO 1
2- TFO TFO 2
3- TFO TFO 3
4- TFO DES 1
5- TFO DES 2
6- TFO DES 3
7 to 16- UNPROGRAMMED (Only tones are heard on these)

ZONE 7: Digital

Channel 1- RLE ECMD
2- RLE ETAC 1
3- RLE ETAC 2
4- RLE ETAC 3
5- RLE ETAC 4
6- RLE SCMD
7- RLE STAC 1
8- RLE STAC 2
9- RLE STAC 3
10- RLE STAC 4
11- RLE NCMD
12- RLE NTAC 1
13- RLE NTAC 2
14- RLE NTAC 3
15- RLE BLUE 2
16- RLE BLUE 1

ZONE 8: Digital

Channel 1- IMA COCALL ---> 25488
2- IMA COTAC 1
3- IMA COTAC 2
4- IMA COTAC 3
5- IMA COTAC 4
6- IMA ICS 1
7- IMA ICS 2
8- IMA ICS 3
9- IMA ICS 4
10- IMA ICS 5
11- IMA ICS 6
12- IMA ICS 7
13- IMA EMER 1
14- IMA EMER 2
15- IMA EMER 3
16- IMA EMER 4

ZONE 9: Digital

Channel 1- RMA COCALL
2- RMA COTAC 1
3- RMA COTAC 2
4- RMA COTAC 3
5- RMA COTAC 4
6- RMA ICS 1
7- RMA ICS 2
8- RMA ICS 3
9- RMA ICS 4
10- RMA ICS 5
11- RMA ICS 6
12- RMA ICS 7
13- RMA EMER 1
14- RMA EMER 2
15- RMA EMER 3
16- RMA EMER 4

ZONE 10: Digital
*********** SD County Has a trailer mount trunked Facility for special usages.
Channel 1- TRF CMD 1
2- TRF TAC 1
3- TRF CMD 2
4- TRF TAC 2
5- TRF CMD 3
6- TRF TAC 3
7- TRF CMD 4
8- TRF TAC 4
9- TRF CMD 5
10- TRF TAC 5
11- TRF CMD 6
12- TRF TAC 6
13- TRF TAC 7
14- TRF TAC 8
15- TRF TAC 9
16- TRF TAC 10

*NOTE* The ********** are info contributed to this post from 31, not me. I appreciate it very much and hope he continues to do so whenever possible. The "arrows" (--->) are from me and what I have personally seen/heard shown on both the HT and my Uniden BC296D scanner at the same time.

Scott