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 a 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	868.7875	11	867.7750
2	868.7500	12	867.7500
3	868.6750	13	867.7000
4	868.3000	14	867.6000
5	868.2750	15	867.2750
6	868.2500	16	867.2000
7	868.2000	17	867.1250
8	868.0875	18	866.7000
9	868.0500	19	866.3125
10	867.8375	20	866.2000

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
Sheriff Office, NCIC	0043	0688	SO Chan 4
Sheriff Office, Traffic	0039	0624	new
Ft. Pierce PD	0179	2864	FPPD Chan 2
Ft. Pierce PD EMERG	0179E	2866	10-34
Ft. Pierce Records	0141	2256	FPPD Chan 3
Ft. Pierce PD Ch 4	0159	2544	FPPD Chan 4
PSL PD Main	0207	3312	PSLPD Main
PSL PD EMERG	0207	3314	10-34
PSL PD Records	0209	3344	PSLPD 10-92
PSL PD Traffic	0219	3504	new
FD COM1	0079	1264	SLFD Chan 1
FD EMERG	0079E	1266	new
FD EMS1	0083	1328	SLFD Ch 5 (Med 9)
FD TAC 1	0087	1392	SLFD Chan 15
FD TAC2	0089	1424	new
FD TAC3	0091	1456	new
FD TAC4	0093	1488	new
St. Lucie Med Center	0103	1648	new
Lawnwood RMC	0101	1616	new
Martin Mem MC	0117	1872	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

Changes in operation are the Fire District Rescue units call the Hospital on the Hospitals Talk Group. The old MED channels, while still in place, will no longer be used for normal EMS operation.

Also, 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.