800 MHz System

As many of you have discovered, most of the government agencies in St. Lucie have begun using the new 800 MHz trunked radio system supplied by Motorola. 

This has resulted in a number of calls by scanner users because they can no longer hear their favorite police department or fire units. 

Actually, while the new system offers greatly improved coverage, significant reduction in interference, far better clarity, and most of all, interoperability for all the radios in the County, it  is still easily monitored by the general public.

 All that is needed is an 800 MHz scanner.  The new 'Trunk Tracker' type of scanner will work the best, but even a regular 800 MHz scanner will allow listening to all of the conversations that were available on the old systems.

Here's how: First, program your scanner with the channel frequencies exactly as listed below:

Channel	Frequency	Channel	Frequency
1	853.7875	11	852.7750
2	853.7500	12	852.7500
3	853.6750	13	852.7000
4	853.3000	14	852.6000
5	853.2750	15	852.2750
6	853.2500	16	852.2000
7	853.2000	17	852.1250
8	853.0875	18	851.7000
9	853.0500	19	851.3125
10	852.8375	20	851.2000

If you are using a regular 800 mHz scanner, lock out channel 1 as it is the control channel.  You can now hear a random sampling of everything on the system.

If you have a trunk scanner, here are some of the more useful talk groups:

Talk Group Name	Motorola #	Radio Shack /Uniden #	Old Equivalent
Sheriff Office, Patrol	0021	0336	SO Main
Sheriff Office, EMERG	0021E	0338	10-34
Ft. Pierce PD	0179	2864	FPPD Chan 2
Ft. Pierce PD EMERG	0179E	2866	10-34
PSL PD Main East	0207	3312	PSLPD Main
PSL PD Main West	0237	3792	PSLW
PSL PD EMERG	0207	3314	10-34
FD COM1	0079	1264	SLFD Chan 1
FD EMERG	0079E	1266	new
FD TAC 1	0087	1392	SLFD Chan 15
FD TAC2	0089	1424	new
FD TAC3	0091	1456	new
FD TAC4	0093	1488	new
Wide Area 911	0337	5392	new
Wide Area Law	0339	5424	new
Wide Area Fire	0341	5456	new
Wide Area Comm	0343	5488	new
Wide Area EMG1	0349	5584	new
Wide Area EMG2	0351	5616	new
Wide Area EMG3	0353	5648	new
Wide Area EMG4	0355	5680	new

Every radio in the system is programmed with the "Wide Area" groups. This is for interoperability throughout the County in the event of a disaster.