Recently, I have been monitoring the Stark County/Canton City 800Mhz Motorola Trunked Radio System.
This system id’s itself as 8E0A. While information about talkgroups and such can be found on radioreference.com [LINK], some talkgroups are appearing on my system that are not listed.
I have found and am using 2 programs to decode the control channel, and find out the use of these new talkgroups. The first program is called Trunk88 and is DOS based. The second program is called Universal Trunker and while the version that I am using is based on DOS, there is a Win32 version available.
Both of these programs will display which Talkgroup, and Radio ID is on each of the trunking systems channels at the current time, which radios affiliate to which talkgroups, and other information that is sent over the control channel.
So far I have found about 10-15 different talkgroups that are not listed, and are being used.
Below is a list which includes these talkgroups and how many times it has been logged, and at what time it was logged.
Note: These talkgroups were monitored on the CROMER site, on 855.0375 Mhz.
TG ID —–# Hits ——First Logged ——- Last Logged
272 18 Feb 21st Feb 21st
1024 13 Feb 21st Feb 23rd
2096 1 Feb 21st Feb 21st
2128 1 Feb 20th Feb 21st
16576 1 Feb 21st Feb 21st
16704 1 Feb 20th Feb 21st
16736 1 Feb 20th Feb 21st
17216 1 Feb 20th Feb 21st
19376 1 Feb 23rd Feb 23rd
41072 1 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
41136 1 Feb 20th Feb 21st
41168 1 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
41200 1 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
41264 1 Feb 20th Feb 20th
41392 1 Feb 23rd Feb 23rd
41520 4 Feb 23rd Feb 23rd
41904 1 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
41936 26 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
42128 1 Feb 20th Feb 23rd
65536 23 Feb 21st Feb 23rd
These programs also require that you modify a scanner to get the baseband audio signal from the chip, before the filters that are to limit the audio for the human aural range of sound.
All of these new talkgroups can be listened to on ScanAmerica.us [LINK], both Stark County feeds are provided by me.
If you happen to monitor this system yourself, and find anything out about these talkgroups, please let me know by leaving a comment or emailing me at 8E0A@w8jkc.com.
Even something as simple as “I heard 144 say that the intersection of 12th St and Market Ave. needs to be…”, anything that may help to identify these talkgroups.