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Fire/Rescue/EMS
(Left=Dispatch
| Right=TAC/Command *)
Police Dispatch
Scanner
feeds are also available via various smart-phone apps, including Scanner
Radio for Andriod.
Feeds
hosted by Radio
Reference, which hosts a collection of feeds from all across America. Our feeds are labeled “Jefferson County
Fire, Rescue, and EMS” * & “Jefferson County WV Police Dispatch”.
* = Stereo feed. The
Fire/Rescue/EMS Dispatch talk group is on the Left channel, and the Fire/Rescue/EMS
TAC & Command talk groups are on the Right channel. You can use the Balance Control on your
audio player to select between the two as desired. (Note that there is no balance control available when you use
the Web Player option on Radio Reference).
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Jefferson County, located
in the state’s Eastern Panhandle, is the eastern-most county in West
Virginia. It is 65 miles North-West
of Washington, DC, and 75 miles West of Baltimore, MD.
The Jefferson
County Communications
Center began utilization
of their digital trunked radio system (TRS) on October 28th,
2008. We currently have our receivers
programmed to receive dispatch and operations talk groups that pertain to Jefferson
County. Scanners are capable of receiving only one
channel at a time. Therefore, we try
to use configurations that concentrate on emergency dispatch. For this reason, our current
configurations do not include known private or non-emergency event-based talk
groups. Since State Police units use
Jefferson County police talk groups when handling calls taken by the
Jefferson County Communications Center, WV State Police talk groups are not
included, as they are often busy with Berkeley
County WV traffic. Our feeds more closely resemble ‘monitors’
than they do ‘scanners’, since each feed covers specific traffic. This gives the listener a much greater
opportunity to hear the intended traffic with less chance of other traffic
getting in the way.
Your response is welcome!
Jefferson County
WV’s county-wide
communications and early-warning system went on the air at 10:15am on
December 27th, 1960. The
project was conceived by an ambitious Civil Defense Director who, aided by a
small group of firefighters and community leaders, utilized funds made
available by the Federal Government for use in municipal Civil Defense
systems to purchase the radio and warning equipment. Later enhancements to the system and its
operation placed it among the most modern, innovative, and emulated on the
east coast during the ‘60s & ‘70s.
Your host is proud to have been associated with many of its founding
fathers, and to have been a part of its history.
My hardware consists of 3
portable scanners (RS Pro-38, RS Pro-106, and Uniden BCD396T ) and a P3
laptop with an external Sound Blaster box, running oddcast software.
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