prob dead air. i got a friend on the county crew. they went digi. so its a paperweight now

 

If they have not gone digital, you can also listen to police/fire/EMS. They all utilize the 144-177MHz band.

 

Doubt that the county road crew share a band with Fire & Police.

Which frequency within that band is the county using vs the local FD & PD ?

There are at least 48 frequencies in that band for communications.

There are at least 8 gov non Mil ranges, not too sure how up to date the chart I have is.

The Unit appears to be crystal isolator dependent, from what I found googling it before. It is does not appear to be a full spectrum tunable radio. The same unit can be programmed as marine, trucking, or gov usage. This is why the correct frequencies would be needed.

Very well could be that the area is so sparsely populated that they have to share a band ??

I would think if the county road crew went digital, that the PD already has done so. Could be wrong, they might still be stuck in the stone ages with the MOT communications for plate retrieval vs the 3G data srvc in the cruisers.

That won't last too long, that spectrum needs to be returned to the Feds for reusage.

 

My county (~40,000 people). Fire is 154.1600MHz, police is 155.0700MHz, PW is 156.1400MHz and school buses are somewhere mixed in i believe.

OP, check out RadioReference.com for some cool stuff. I'm an Amateur HAM and get most of my stuff from there.

 

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?ctid=1201 that me...how would i go about tuning 2 them? anyone know?...i kno....google it....**** u....idk how 2 do stuff so thats y im here...

 

Not true. there are 4 different bands that fire/PD/ems can use. They can use low band(30mhz), vhf(about 150-170mhz), uhf 450-460ish) and the 800mhz band. thats all analog. They could also be on a digital trunking system or an encrypted system. go to http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/ to look up the emergency services in your town.