St Joseph Area Scanner Frequencies - and towers

The Basics:

Click on the pix at left

The City of St. Joseph's Trunked System

Buchanan County Sheriff 

Missouri Western State College

Mo State Highway Patrol

42.40	Troop H NEW LICENSED FREQUENCY Jan 2004 - use not confirmed yet - see below	Click above for bigger photo
42.58	Troop H Base - St Joseph - calls Cars
42.78	Troop H Mobile - calls base and mobile to mobile
42.02	Air ops and occasional car to car chit chat
456.275	Mobile relay - Quitman to St. Joe - Fixed relay, Beams to SJ Troop H from NORTH, PL6A 173.8Hz
456.225	Mobile relay - Polo to St. Joe - Fixed relay, Beams to SJ Troop H from from EAST, PL6A 173.8 Hz   There's changes afoot with the Mo SHP.

Here is what's slated to happen in September 2004 according to informed sources:

Wireless Mikes, Fast Food Drive-up Windows and other weird things

Here is a list of these strange ones - if it radiates RF I want to log it!

Other Local Scanner Frequencies- the details

Here's the list of confirmed and heard - all sorts of business, etc 

Here's a Big List of stations heard in St Joe in the past and FCC assignments - not necessarily confirmed.

Nextel- good grief that have taken all the 800 MHz frequencies left in the city! Over 1000 lines of frequency/locations! BUT only a few of them are active. 

The Future is Trunked...(and 700 MHz)

There's more afoot...the city and county want to go together for a countywide multi million dollar 800 MHz trunked service. Here are the frequencies already assigned...but not really in use except for control buzzes and a few words. The "YES" vote by the people of the city of St Joseph in November, 2002 will provide the $4,000,000 to get it started. It will take as much as $10,000,000 to really cover the county, I predict. No details on rollout at this time...but informally they want it to be operational in 2005. There was talk of be some Air National Guard investment and use of the system, but it took too long and they are using their own repeater on 163.1 output...which has also been reported as a NOAA storm spotter frequency.

In Jan 2003 the new 800 MHz antennas appeared at the Law Enforcement Center (Sprint PCS), and 866.55 MHz began relaying SJ PD F1 (ported from 460.15)

Here's the frequencies assigned:

Transmit sites are slated for several places in the city and county including:

Just fyi, here's the lineup in my shack, etc:

The big one BC780xlt Trunktracker III -  I love Andy's program!	BC245 Trunk Tracker II	Radio Shack PRO 60
BC760xlt - my wife's	It's a 2005 - only sold for a short while - in service since 1986. Snip! :-)	BC 250 - 25 years old - 50 channels - sits on top of the fridge and works great!
		What's next? - What's that wide band scanner with TV - might be fun to look at 2400 MHz sigs...
My 4 bander IC-T81A ham rig has VHF and UHF wideband scan also	BC-140 at my office

Here's the link to the FCC licenses - you can look 'em up yourself!

Any other ideas?

73  Wally WB0BAV

ex WV2YEI

Since 7/14/04

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