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County RCS Pager Freq(s)?
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:06 pm
by SkipSanders
Anyone out there happen to know what the County's pagers are on?
It seems the new RCS system will be on the same channels, or nearly, since they say the old pagers will work, but there's no county frequency that's actually showing a license for pagers (more than a few).
155.940 has some of the rural fire/ambulance pages (such as Valley Center), but it's clearly not the 'main' pager system.
Anyone got one on their hip to look at? <grin>
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:54 am
by mike
155.940 is Sig Alert and CHP uses it.
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:57 am
by mike
I hear 154.085 as a pager but im not sure who uses it.
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:29 pm
by SkipSanders
154.085 is San Diego Fire's pager, but it's soo ancient (GOLAY) that nothing currently available will decode it anymore.
Well, Ok, there is one program, but it requires pre-XP and a data slicer, neither of which I have. And they're supposed to be moving to the county system along with everyone else, since they can't buy pagers for it anymore.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:47 am
by mike
San Diego fire is switching from the city radios to the county?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:12 am
by SkipSanders
Well, it's still rumor, but the RCS paging system meeting notes indicate a large number of local agencies are joining the county paging system, and SDFire is in bad need of update.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:01 pm
by Control
Sorry this is late, but...
The County uses a commercial paging service. I can't tell you HOW I know, but I'm certain of it.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:11 pm
by SkipSanders
I had thought that was a possibility, but the RCS minutes keep talking about them installing new transmitters at all the sites, and stuff, which doesn't match up. Ah, well.
Guess I can't listen to them, if they're on a Common Carrier. That would be illegal. <piously>
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:58 pm
by 800
Control wrote:Sorry this is late, but...
The County uses a commercial paging service. I can't tell you HOW I know, but I'm certain of it.
True, for *those staff members who need to be paged outside of the county.*
Otherwise, it's the County system on 155.940.
800
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:28 am
by SkipSanders
I did confirm that 155.94 is also the Sigalert paging frequency, happened to catch a pageout.
I imagine that if you wanted to monitor sigalerts, you could use CTCSS to hear only the tone alerted sigalerts, and not all the pocsag paging.