Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Consol Energy Arena

I got to make it to a hockey game at Consol Energy Arena last night. Here are some of the frequencies in use.

216.100 - WFM - Comms for coordinating camera men.
461.3875 - MotoTrbo
461.6875 - MotoTrbo
463.4375 - MotoTrbo
464.500 - Simplex. talk about cameras. Possible HBO filming 24/7 series.
463.1375 - DPL 244 - Unknown
463.2125 - Unknown
463.5875 - DPL 244 - Unknown
467.7625 - DPL 023 - Unknown
151.805 - PL 156.7 - Simplex. Parking

I'm sure there is more.
467.7125 - PL 67.0 - Guest Services

467.7125 - PL 67.0 - Simplex. Guest Services
463.5875 - DPL

Monday, December 27, 2010

Bern DPW

Bern DPW - 155.940 - DPL 627

York County

York County is no longer using the VHF high band police frequencies, or the VHF low band fire frequencies. They are only on the UHF trunked system. I will delete the old frequencies on the next update.

Reading TRS

Reading TRS has been rebanded. New frequencies for the system : 851.300, 851.575, 851.825, 852.300 (control channel), 853.075, 853.325.

Some user IDs for the system :
1 - Reading DPW
2 - Water Department
8 - Reading DPW
223 - Reading HEAR
276 - Reading DPW
285 - Reading Parks
364 - Reading DPW
375 - Reading DPW
434 - Water Department
446 - Water Department Unit 24
524 - DPW Truck 29
751 - Water Department
1132 - Reading Citywide Help
1139 - Reading DPW
1309 - Reading Fire Dispatch
1348 - Reading EMS Dispatch
1570 - Water Department Unit 7
1709 - Reading EMS Dispatch
1710 - Reading Fire Tac 1
1711 - Reading Fire Tac 2
1846 - Water Department
1859 - Water Department backhoe 7
8193 - Reading Medic 1
8194 - Reading Medic 1
8195 - Reading Medic 2
8196 - Reading Medic 2
8197 - Reading Medic 4
8198 - Reading Medic 4
8204 - Reading Fire Car 2
8208 - Reading Fire Car 11
8210 - Reading Fire Car 8
8217 - Reading Rescue 1
8224 - Reading Fire Unknown
8229 - Reading Engine 9
8237 - Reading Engine 14
8238 - Reading Ladder 2
8241 - Reading Engine 2
8244 - Reading Rescue 1
8257 - Reading Engine 12
8265 - Reading Medic 1
8272 - Reading Fire Car 2
8278 - Reading Fire Car 8
8281 - Reading Fire Car 11
8287 - Reading Engine 14
8293 - Reading Engine 12
8298 - Reading Ladder 2
8733 - Reading Engine 13
8734 - Reading Engine 9
8736 - Reading Engine 3
8737 - Reading Engine 11
8756 - Reading Ladder 3
8759 - Reading DPW Truck 6
8765 - Reading Ladder 3 Portable
21355 - Reading EMS Tac 1

Homestead and West Homestead Fire

Homestead and West Homestead fire are now on Allegheny County East Zone fire. Dispatch on 470.3875 PL 123.0, and primary operations ch. 3 460.350 PL 179.9

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

TRMA Meeting

The TRMA meeting will be this Thursday (12/16) at 1930 at the King's in The Water Works. All are invited to join in.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Pages Updated

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :

Allegheny County Communities
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Tones
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page Updates

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Allegheny County North Zone

Allegheny County North Zone has been simulcasting 155.010 PL 114.8 and 495.0125 DPL 432 police.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Alleghenyb County South Zone

Allegheny County South Zone has now switched to 460.600 PL 118.8 - repeater for dispatch. This is South Fire Dispatch 1.

There are also new sets of tones for some departments. There has been heavy testing of tones today. Some tones are still going over 460.400, but this will no longer be used after the change over is complete.

Also active today is new South Public Safety - 460.200 PL 110.9 - repeater.

South Fire Ops 2 - 460.625 - PL 192.8 has been used today.

Other ops channels should be in use soon.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Pages Updated

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :

Allegheny County Communities
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Tones
Allegheny County EMS Stations
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Frequencies
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page Updates

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Northwest EMS

Northwest EMS 467.9125 DPL 7125 simplex. Private operations channel.

Oakland Raiders

451.5875 DPL 546 Oakland Raiders Defense. Voice inversion scrambling.
451.5875 DPL 754 Oakland Raiders QB radios. Voice inversion scrambling

Ferra Towing

Ferra's Towing TG 0-03-013 on Staley LTR. Submitted by Frank N3OBL

Allegheny County East Fire

Allegheny Co. East Zone Fire Ops 3 - 460.350 PL 179.9 was put into service around 1000 this morning.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pages Updated

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :
K3FS Amateur Radio And Scanner Home Page - Page format updated to standard format. Content updated and changed.

Allegheny County Trunking Page - Updated the user IDs on the Pittsburgh TRS

Allegehny County P25 Systems - Updated user IDs

Allegheny County East Police

Allegheny County Police East Zone Wilkinsburg area have moved from 154.860 to the old fire channel on 159.270 PL 162.2

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Page Updated

Update for the following page has been uploaded :

K3FS Pittsburgh Area Aviation Frequencies - Page now in same format of all other pages. Links validated, and updated

Friday, November 5, 2010

Site Updates

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :

K3FS Scanner Links - Major update
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone - Very minor update

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Ross Township and West View PD

Ross Township and West View Police are now on North PD CH. 2 471.8625 PL 103.5
Ross PD - #6200
West View PD - #7200

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Southwestern PA Veterans

Southwestern PA Veterans Center - 472.3375 has gone Moto TBro digital

Ross Township Fire

Ross Township fire now on Allegheny County North Zone

Dispatch on 471.5625 PL 103.5 and operations on Ch. 3 471.7625 PL 107.2. There are still some paging tones over 154.310 PL 192.8, but all operations have been on the North UHF system.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Pages Updated

Pages have been uploaded for the following pages :

Allegheny County Communities Page
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page

These changes are few, and minor. Mostly corrections of typos, and of units numbers.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Duquesne University

Looks like Duquesne University has gone Moto TBro or NXGen. 463.4875 has been active the last couple of weeks with digital format that is not P25 compatible. I can hear the input in my car on 5th Ave. Duquesne is licensed on this frequency. They filed a modification on 7/20/2010 and added emission 7K60FXE to 463.4875 and 461.800. 461.800 has been silent tonight.

Priority One

Priority One EMS has been silent on 462.000. All I have heard is the Morse ID with PL 77.0. I have not heard them on another channel yet.

Pages Updated

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :

Allegheny County Municipalities
Allegheny County Dispatch by Zone
Allegheny County Fire Stations
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Tones
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page Updates

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Prism Prehospital Services

Prism now being dispatched by Allegheny County on South EMS 471.3375 PL 151.4.

Tones are unchanged.

The old frequencies are still in use for communications with West Mifflin.

Duquesne EMS

Duquesne EMS now on East EMS 471.3125 PL 146.2

Tones 569.1 / 1357.6

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Pages Upadted

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :
Allegheny County Communities And Services
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zones
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Dispatch Tones
Pittsburgh Area Amateur Radio Repeaters
Allegheny County EMS Stations
Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page Updates
Other Frequencies In Pennsylvania Updates
Other Frequencies In Pennsylvania (Lots of Berks County tones added)
Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
Washington County Frequencies
Washington County Frequencies Updates Page

Added - K3FS Amateur Radio Log And QSO Map Page

New page added

I have added a new page. K3FS Amateur Radio Log And QSO Map. This page will show the last 30 QSO's and overall QSO map. Link has been added to all pages.

Ross PD

Ross PD were being simulcast on 159.150 and North PD 2 471.8625 PL 103.5. I have just finished updating the pages, and of course this simulcast is no longer in effect. I will wait and see what happens before I make any other changes

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Allegheny County East Zone EMS

Allegheny County East Zone EMS - 471.3125 PL 146.2 has been active this morning with dispatches. Not all units are responding on UHF at this point, but some are.

Medical Rescue Team South

Medical Rescue Team South has returned to 453.625 - PL 156.7 - South EMS 2
The dispatches are being simulcast over Ch. 1 471.3375 and Ch. 2 453.625. I have only been hearing the units on Ch. 2 453.625.

Allegheny County South Zone - Police

Allegheny County South Zone Police - 472.575 PL 192.8 is now active.

The old linked frequencies are no longer being used by police.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Consol Energy Arena

No traffic was heard again tonight on frequencies that were used by the old Mellon Arena.

I did hear traffic on all of the newly licensed frequencies for SMG. 461.3875, 461.6875, 463.2125, 463.4375. All frequencies were very active, and all are repeaters. I was able to hear the inputs on the Boulevard Of The Allies, and Liberty Bridge. All were digital, and not P25 compatible. Probably Motorola TBRo or Kenwood NXGen.

It looks like the new system at the Consol Energy is not able to be scanned.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

North Versailles Police

North Versailles police 460.100 - PL 141.3 - Are now using #3100.

There has been a lot of changes to police unit numbers in the past month. This has occurred for both county dispatched and self dispatched agencies. They are all oving to the same standard identification system.

I am working on updates for the pages to reflect these changes. I was thinking some radio system changes would have occurred, and was waiting for them. I will update, what has change so far soon, and not wait any further.

Consol Energy Arena

Early indications look like they are using a new Motorola TBro system. I have mot been able to hear anything on the old Mellon Arena frequencies when I was nearby. They have new licenses, and the emission designator would confirm they are using a new system that may not be monitored.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Wings Over Pittsburgh 2010

Frequencies for the air show.

121.250 - AM - Air boss
123.475 - AM - Golden Knights
118.700 - AM - Air show performers
123.150 - AM - Air show performers
453.1125 - PL 131.8 - Allegheny County EMS command (Repeater)
151.685 - DPL 074 - Buses. Transport from show to parking areas.
471.225 - PL 156.7 - Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Unsure of use. Security or maintenance. This is a new frequency for me.
154.025 - PL 107.2 - Moon PD and DPW.
467.7625 - DPL 074 - Simplex ops in the airshow.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Monday, September 6, 2010

Carbon County

Some information I received on Carbon County.
CARBON FIRE 1 TX 465.175 PL 127.3 RX 460.175 PL 127.3
CARBON FIRE 2 TX 453..025 PL 136.5 RX 458.025 PL 136.5
CARBON FIRE 3 TX 458.4875 PL 1Z RX 453.4875 PL 1Z

CARBON GOVT TX 458.725 PL 118.8 RX 453.725 PL 103.5

CARBON EMS TX 155.205 PL 156.7 RX 155.205 PL 156.7

CARBON REGIONAL TX 155.340 PL 156.7 RX 155.340 PL 156.7

CARBON PD 1 TX 156.030 PL 127.3 RX 154.800 PL 127.3

CARBON PD 2 TX 154.965 RX 154.965

CARBON PD 3 TX 155.730 RX 155.730

CARBON FIRE AND EMS PAGING RX 453.1000

EMS ALERT TONES

A TONE-UNKNOWN

B TONE FOR ALL EMS IS 1598.0

Friday, September 3, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

East Zone police numbering

There have been more East Zone police department unit numbering changes. The changes happened at the same time as the new CAD system was being put in to use. East PD are s cheduled to move to UHF soon.


Braddock PD - #2100
Braddock Hills PD - #2200
Churchill PD - #2300
Edgewood PD - #2700
Forest Hills PD - #2800
North Braddock PD - #2400
Penn Hills PD - #3300
Plum PD - #3300
Rankin PD - #3600
Swissvale PD - #3700
Wilkins Township PD - #4100
Wilkinsburg PD - #4200

I probably left a couple out. The pages will be updated when the conversion to UHF is done. That should be soon. If not I will make the unit number changes on the pages.

South EMS

New South EMS is operational. 471.3375 PL 151.4(old PL was 156.7). There were to be a couple of EMS services moving to the new channel from other channels. Still too early in the change to tell if that is the case.

Other changes to South and East zones will be occurring soon.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Allegheny County East Fire Dispatch

Allegheny County East Fire Dispatch - 470.3875 - PL 123.0
Recently moved from 159.270 :
Wilkinsburg - Station 305 - Tones 928.1 / 1285.8
Swissvale - Station 278 - Tones 879.0 / 1185.2

Responses on East Fire Ch. 2 - 470.325 - PL 131.8
East Public Safety - 472.8375 - PL 203.5

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Plum Police

Plum Police is now dispatched by Allegheny County. They are still on 155.625, but units are now #4300.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Allegheny County DPW

Allegheny County DPW - 471.2625 - PL 156.7 - Simplex

Allegheny County is paving Sussex Ave. traffic on 471.2625 PL 156.7 simplex, related to traffic control and operations.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Allegheny County LZ TAC

Allegheny County LZ TAC - 453.5375 - PL 186.2 - Simplex

This is the frequency to be used at all LZ in the county for Life Flight and STAT. This is the main frequency Allegheny County will give to the Helos for ground contact. This is being used more frequently mow, and is being implemented countywide.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

LPGA Open

Allegheny County Oakmont Command is also using 494.800 PL 141.3. I have heard other 494 freqs being used, but very little.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

UPMC McKeesport

UPMC - McKeesport - 464.375 - PL 156.7 - Repeater

LPGA Open

472.5875 PL 146.2 is being used by Open Command by police for traffic control around the course.

Looks like they are giving the new East Freqs a good testing at the Open.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Special TRMA Meeting

Thursday, July 8, 1900 hours at the Waterfront at Homestead will be a meeting with Chris Parris. Chris writes the Fed Files column for Monitoring Files.

Its always nice to see Chris when he is in town and talk radios.

Whitaker VFD

Whitaker VFD is on East Fire 159.270 repeater. They are no longer dispatched on 154.220.

LPGA Open

LPGA Open starts tomorrow and runs through the 11th. There was some testing of EMS units on 471.3125 PL 146.2 this morning. This is likely to be the EMS channel during the event.

Friday, July 2, 2010

PACER Paramedic Responsse

I received an email about a new response service available to the East Zone. PACER Paramedic Response station 290. I will post frequency and tones when I get them.

There will be changes to the East and South zones, likely in August. Expect to see new police EMS, and fire freqs for both zones. Looks as if some South Zone freqs will be reallocated to East. From what I've heard the new South police channel comes in nice and strong.

The single frequency multicast with multiple transmitter sites are sounding good. The reallocation of the countywide Tac freqs with zones, users, and uses for certain Tac channels is good to see. I will post more as these come on air and are confirmed. Overall a more efficient, and organized system.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Allegheny County Testing

There has been quite a bit of testing.
472.5875 - PL 167.9
472.575 - PL 192.8 - Referred to as South Police

There has also been testing on a few frequencies in the 490 range.

There are changes to South and East zones in the near future and these are likely part of that.

I have heard 460.400 with PL 114.8 keyed up as well.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bellevue Police

Allegheny County North - North Boros PD - 155.010 - PL 114.8 - Bellevue Police are now #6900

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Pages Upadted

Updates for the following pages have been uploaded :

K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
K3FS Updates to Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
Pittsburgh Area Amateur Radio Frequencies
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Tones
Allegheny County Communities And Agencies
K3FS Tone Out Codes - Minor correction to page formatting only
Other Pennsylvania Frequencies
Updates To Other Pennsylvania Frequencies
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Frequencies
Allegheny County P25 Systems - Minor update
Allegheny County EMS Stations - Minor Update

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

463.300

463.300 CSQ was active before the last Penguin game. It sounded like it could be Canadian media. They were speaking what sounded like French. It appeared to be from the area of Mellon Arena.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Rt 88 Flag men

C. H. & D Enterprises flag men are using 462.5625 CSQ simplex for Rt 88 construction.

Blog links fixed

I received an email today, that notified me that the links to the new pages were not working on the Blog. I have fixed that, and they should be working now. I still have some links on the navigation bar for my pages I have to fix, and hope to do that soon. Thanks, for the heads up.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Pages Upadted

All pages have been updated. There were minor editing changes done to all pages. The page links have all been standardized.

Major changes to the following pages :
K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page
Allegheny County Dispatch By Zone
Allegheny County Fire Stations
Allegheny County EMS Stations
Allegheny County Fire And EMS Tones
Allegheny County Trunking Systems
K3FA Amateur Radio Frequencies
Pennsylvania Frequencies
Other Frequencies In Pennsylvania
Washington County Frequencies

Two new pages have been added.

Allegheny County Communities And Public Safety Agencies - This is a list of all municipalities, the responding agencies, units numbers, frequencies, PL/DPL, and Allegheny County zone. Meant to be a quick reference to look up what agencies respond where.

Allegheny County P25 Systems - Not much on this page for now, It is a more in depth look at P25 frequencies. Lists the agency, frequency, call sign, NAC, talk groups, and unit IDs on P25 frequencies. All P25 frequencies contain all of this information. I'm sure there will be more to add.

Please let me know of any links I messed up. I am aware of one, and will fix this when I get a chance.

I am going to try to put smaller updates together. This one took two months to complete.

Friday, March 5, 2010

N3SH Repeaters

The N3SH 146.955 and 442.550 machines are off the air for some work. They are expected to be back on the air by Sunday morning.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Allegheny County - Mon Valley Police

Allegheny County - Mon Valley Police Ch. 2 159.090 PL 107.2

Changes to unit numbers :
Clairton - #5200
Elizabeth Boro - #1600
Glassport - #5600
Lincoln Boro - #4500
Port Vue - #3500

Pittsburgh School Police

Pittsburgh School Police - 471.4875 - P25 NAC F18 - Repeater

They have now switched to P25 digital from analog.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

TRMA Meeting

This Weds (2/17) will be the monthly gathering at the King's at the Water Works at 1930. See you there.

WASH Fest

The first ham fest of the season is only a couple of weeks away. Wireless Association Of South Hills, WASH fest will be on Sunday, Feb 28. Doors open at 0800. More information is on their site : http://www.n3sh.org/index.php

Thursday, February 4, 2010

LTR Systems

LTR Systems and all other trunking systems have been reconfirmed, and updated. The update should be uploaded soon.

The 937 unknown LTR system is no longer active.

The Crown 454 LTR system looks to actually be licensed to Schuylkill Mobile Phone, with the transmitters located on the KDKA tower.

Added Hempfield School District LTR :
LCN 1 - 464.600
LCN 5 - 464.7875
LCN 9 - 463.650

Talk Groups :
0-05-100 - Unknown
0-05-110 - Unknown
0-05-141 - Unknown

A couple of new LTR frequencies were found by Rich, K3RWN. These appear o be a two channel LTR system. The LCNs are known, but which frequency is which, is still being worked on.

LCN 11 - 451.275
LCN 13 - 451.725

Talk Groups :
1-11-022
1-11-023
1-11-024
1-13-022
1-13-025

I am hoping to add the unit IDs to the trunking page. There are quite a few of them, and this will take some time.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Whitaker Police

Whitaker Police are now on Allegheny County Dispatch - Mon Valley Zone - 156.210 - PL 107.2 - Repeater - Units #53--

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Stowe Twp VFD

Flemming Park VFD station 275 and West Park VFD Station 277 have merged to form Stowe VFD. Presston VFD Station 277 has been fighting the merger, and is not part of the merger.

According to news releases Presston VFD is no longer recognized by Stowe Township, and will not be dispatched for fire calls, and are not to respond.

Updates in progress

Updates to the trunking systems page is in progress, and this will be a major update of the page.

There are a substantial amount of changes to the Allegheny County Fire And EMS page as well.

In fact, most pages have updates that will be up loaded as soon as I get things done.

Allegheny County Dispatch - Mon Valley

Allegheny County Dispatch - Mon Valley Police Ch. 2 - 159.090 PL 107.2

Clairton Police are now #52--

Allegheny County Dispatch - East Fire

Allegheny County East Fire - 470.3875 PL 123.0

There has been testing on this lately. Today radio service was talking about turning on the link. Tonight this seems to be linked with 472.5875 PL 136.5, and 472.8375 PL 156.7. These two have used 475.5875 for the input to the linked system.

From the sounds of the testing, this is primarily to serve the Penn Hills region.

Tonight this is linked, and now Penn Hills fire dispatches are going through the system. Penn Hills is still responding on VHF 154.400 PL 146.2.

During testing last night they were referring to Ops 2. There was some testing on 470.325 PL 146.3, and they switched back to Ch. 1 which was 470.3875.

Monday, January 18, 2010

K3MJW

The Skyview Radio Society repeater - 146.640 PL 131.8 - has undergone some changes. New antenna on a new tower, and the power amplifier has been repaired. The repeater has a nice signal here in the South Hills now. Nice job.

Allegheny County Dispatch - North Fire

Allegheny County Dispatch - North Fire

It looks like they are attempting to shorten dispatches. I have noticed that there are quite a few departments being dispatched with only one set of tones. They used to have two, and rarely three sets of tones for each department.

I've also noticed more QRS dispatches. QRS are dispatched on fire, and respond on EMS Ch. 1

The fire tones, and QRS companies will be on the next site update.

White Oak DPW

White Oak DPW - 45.520 - No PL/DPL - Simplex

TRMA Meeting

The monthly TRMA meeting of the oblong table will be this Weds at 1930, at the King's at the Water Works mall. See you there.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Robinson Township Fire

Robinson Township fire has gone to Allegheny County dispatch. Dispatched on Southwest Fire Ch. 1 471.7375 - DPL 073.

Operations at this point are on Southwest Ch. 5 - 472.4125 - DPL 023

Robinson - Moon Run - Station 245 - Tones 1232 / 1130

Allegheny County - Southwest Dispatch

Allegheny County - Southwest - Fire - 471.7375 DPL 073

Bellevue - Station 108 QRS - Dispatch. (Tones 746.8 / 634.5)
South Fayette - Station 267 fire and QRS dispatch. QRS response.

Allegheny County - Southwest - EMS - 470.4375 PL 156.7

Bellevue - Station 108 QRS - Operations

Monday, January 4, 2010