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== '''Greg Lynskey's Worcester TRS Page''' ==
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<font size="+2">'''Worcester Regional'''</font><br><br>
  
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*Modified [http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1302616 Worcester License] with the P25 frequencies.
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*System is part of the larger [[Massachusetts State Police Project 25 |CoMIRS State P25 system.]]
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*Site 001-0036 - 3 Simulcast Sites.
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*NAC D16
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* Talkgroups are a mix of Phase 1 (FDMA) and Phase 2 (TDMA). '''TDMA Talkgroups will have a "TDMA" after the Talkgroup"
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*'''Conventional Frequencies can be found on the appopriate [[Central_MA_Portal|Worcester County]] page.'''
  
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<BIG>[http://www.wpi.edu/~glynskey/Worcester Worcester Police Fire and EMS Station Locations]</BIG>
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'''Worcester EDACS-WIDE System Frequencies in LCN Order'''
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{{TOC}}
  
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851.4625<BR>
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== '''P25 Trunk Frequencies''' ==
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851.9125<BR>
 
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852.0375<BR>
 
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852.3625<BR>
 
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854.2125<BR>
 
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855.4875<BR>
 
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855.7125<BR>
 
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855.7375<BR>
 
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855.9625<BR>
 
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855.9875<BR>
 
  
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'''Common Worcester Fire Department Talkgroups'''<BR>
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{{mediumtable}}
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04-045 F1 ''Fire Admin'' (Single Company Responses) <BR>
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!'''Frequency'''
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04-041 F2 ''Fire Ops A'' (North End Multi Company Responses-Used if Car 3 assigned to the call)<BR>
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!'''Usage'''
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04-042 F3 ''Fire Ops B'' (South End Multi Company Responses-Used if Car 4 assigned to the call)<BR>
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation
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04-043 F4 ''Fire Ops C'' (Multi Company Responses-Used if Ops A and Ops B both in use)<BR>
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04-044 F5 ''Fire Dispatch'' (used to dispatch all calls, Single tone-One Company or Message, Two tones-Multi Companies, Three tones-Reported Building Fires)<BR>
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|858.1375||CC||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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04-086 F15 Mutual Aid Patch (can be patch both ways to 33.62 or 33.70 county frequencies)<BR>
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04-082 Training<BR>
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|857.2625||CC and Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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08-123 Fire/EMS/PD Common Talkgroup
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|856.8375||CC and Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|856.5125||CC||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|854.1375||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|854.2125||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|854.4625||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|855.4875|| ? || Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|854.8875||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|855.7125||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|855.7375||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|855.9625||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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|856.2625||Voice||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#City_of_Worcester_.28Tower_ID:_001-036.29|Worcester Site]] on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
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== '''Talkgroups''' ==
  
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Single company responses include: Medical Assists, Private Residential Alarms, Local Alarms, Brush Fires, Motor Vehicle accidents, Vehicle Fires, Spills, etc.
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==='''Regional'''===
  
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|2507||FD7 Orange||Patched to Fire District 7 (Orange) - 159.4575.||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|2509||FD8 Simulcast||Mid-State Simulcast - Inter-op on 453.7500 / 31.1000 - TG: 40144 on Analog Zone 8||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|627||Fire Wide Area||For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealths TRS||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#Interop.2FWide_Area|CoMIRS]] for Confirmation.
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|4589||SP Holden Tie|| ||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|629||Police Wide Area||For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#Interop.2FWide_Area|CoMIRS]] for Confirmation.
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|631||Worcester EMS Wide Area||For use outside of Worcester on the Commonwealth TRS||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#Interop.2FWide_Area|CoMIRS]] for Confirmation.
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|625||Worcester EMA Wide Area||Emergency Managment<br>For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS||Please see [[Massachusetts_Commonwealth_Interoperability_Radio_System#Interop.2FWide_Area|CoMIRS]] for Confirmation.
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Multi Company Responses include:<BR>
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=='''Worcester'''==
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a.) One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc<BR>
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*'''Please visit the [[Worcester Department Information]] page for detailed fire and ems information.
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b.) Two Engines, One Ladder, and the District Chief for: Private Commercial Alarms, Boiler Problems, Electrical Problems, Stove Fires, other appliance fires (driers, etc), some Master Boxes, etc. <BR>
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*The two fire simulcasts are not always active.  The South County simulcast is active much more often. Fire alarm has the ability to patch these talkgroups to fireground channels.
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c.) Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.<BR>
 
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d.) Two Engines for: Medical call or Motor Vehicle accident on I290. Two engines sent in order to have one come each direction in case the location was given incorrectly.
 
  
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==== '''Fire Department''' ====
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*Fire Dispatch, Single tone - One Company or Message, Two tones - Multi Companies, Three tones - Reported Building Fires or SCUBA alerts.
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4433||F1 FD Admin||Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4435||F2 Fire OPS-A||North End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4437||F3 Fire OPS B||South End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4439||F4 Fire OPS C||Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) - Patched to 460.0500 (DPL 051)||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4441||F5 Fire OPS D||Additional Multi Company Response||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4443||Dispatch||Used to dispatch all calls (See note above)||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|-
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|4451||Fire Prevention||Fire Code Enforcement||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4445 '''TDMA'''||TAC-10||Training/Overflow Fireground channel||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4447 '''TDMA'''||TAC-11||Training/Overflow Fireground channel||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|-
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|4449 '''TDMA'''||TAC-12||Info sharing channel (Encrypted)||2019.03.28 W1KNE
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|}
  
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Reported building fires get a response of Four Engines, Two Ladders, the Rescue, a district Chief, and an additional Ladder for RIT.<BR>
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=== '''Police Department''' ===
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Subsequent Alarms:<BR>
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{{prettytable}}
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''2nd Alarm'': 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Special Ops District Chief, Safety Officer, Deputy Chief<BR>
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''3rd Alarm'': 2 Engines, 1 Ladder<BR>
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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''4th Alarm'': 2 Engines, District Chief, Department Chief<BR>
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!'''Use'''
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''5th Alarm'': 2 Engines<BR>
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Encrypted'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4369||F1 East Dispatch||Routes 1-10||No||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4371||F2 West Dispatch||Routes 11-20||No||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4373 '''TDMA'''||F3 CJIS/NCIC||Record Checks||Yes||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4375 '''TDMA'''||F4 TRAFFIC||Traffic Enforcement||Yes||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4377 '''TDMA'''||F5 Talk-around|| ||Yes||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4379 '''TDMA'''||F6 TAC-1 || ||Yes||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4393||F9 ??|| ||Yes||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|}
  
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=== '''EMS''' ===
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*EMS and Ambulance Info can be found [[#ems|at the bottom of the page]].
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4481||EMS Citywide Dispatch|| 462.9500 MED-9 used to communicate with private & mutual aid ambulances handling 911 overflow calls, not linked||2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
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|4485||WEMS 2||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4487||WEMS 3||||2016.08.10 WFD
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|4489||CMED Interop||||2016.08.10.WFD
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Common mutual aid is an Engine and Tower from Auburn, Engine from Millbury, Engine from Shrewsbury, and an Engine from Paxton. This mutual aid does not normally occur until at least a fourth alarm. City companies are moved up before mutual aid is called in.
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===''' Citywide Talkgroups''' ===
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*The Interagency talkgroup is primarily used for communication between FD and EMS or PD and EMS.
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*The events channels are in every PD and FD radio. (maybe more?)
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*The 911 Emergency talkgroup is in every city radio, as well as WRTA buses. It is monitored by a Fire Department dispatcher. It usually is used by DPW workers or WRTA drivers to report MVAs or medical emergencies.  During a recent disaster drill it was used for communication between the dispatcher and incident commander.
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4353||Emergency Management||||2016.03.31 ScanWorcester
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|4577 '''TDMA'''||Event A||||
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|4579 '''TDMA'''||Event B||||
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|4581 '''TDMA'''||Event C||||
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|4583||911 Emergency / Call in||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4585||Fire / EMS / PD||||2024.02.16 W1KNE
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|}
  
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=== '''Airport Talkgroups''' ===
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*Airport vehicles also have access to 120.5000 ORH Tower to talk to the tower while driving in/on the runway areas.
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*Some of these Talkgroups will also appear on the Massport-Boston Zone
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|51||ORH Fire Department|| ||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|85||MSP F PATROL 3|| Also heard on analog Zone 8||2022.04.04 GaryS
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|179||ORH Security/ARFF||||2016.09.11 mjd553
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|177||ORH Emergency||||2016.08.01 WorcNews
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|183||ORH Maintenance||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|185||ORH Operations|| ||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|}
  
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=== '''Public Works Talkgroups''' ===
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*All public works talkgroups are TDMA (Phase II).
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4513 '''TDMA'''||DPW Snow Plows||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4515 '''TDMA'''||DPW Garage||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4517 '''TDMA'''||DPW Sewer Dept||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4519 '''TDMA'''||DPW Street Dept||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4521 '''TDMA'''||DPW Water Dept||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4523 '''TDMA'''||DPW Engineering||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4525 '''TDMA'''||DPW Water Filtration||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4527 '''TDMA'''||DPW Sanitation||||2024.02.16 W1KNE
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|4529 '''TDMA'''||DPW Parking||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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|4531 '''TDMA'''||DPW - Parks Maintenance||||2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
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|4535 '''TDMA'''||DPW Cemeteries||||2016.04.20
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|4537 '''TDMA'''||DPW Forestry||||2022.05.25 ecps92
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'''Worcester Fire Department Station Alerts'''<BR>The only activity on these TGs is they are keyed to activate paging and Klaxon systems in the fire houses. There is no conversation or announcements.
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=== '''School Department Talkgroups''' ===
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{{prettytable}}
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|-align="center" style="background:silver;"
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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!'''Use'''
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!'''Comments'''
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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|4561 '''TDMA'''||School Transport - A||||2025.10.24 MASSBUSMARK
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|4563 '''TDMA'''||School Transport - B||||2025.10.24 MASSBUSMARK
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|4565 '''TDMA'''||School Administration||||
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05-122 South Division <BR>
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=='''Shrewsbury'''==
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05-123 Headquarters <BR>
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*All TGs are Phase II/TDMA
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05-124 Park Ave<BR>
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{{prettytable}}
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05-125 Webster Square<BR>
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05-126 Brown Square<BR>
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!'''Talkgroup'''
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05-127 Southeast Division<BR>
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!'''Use'''
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05-130 Burncoat<BR>
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!'''Encrypted'''
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05-131 Tatnuck<BR>
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!'''Comments'''
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05-133 Greendale<BR>
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!'''Confirmation/Reconfirmation'''
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05-134 Providence-The Rock<BR>
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05-137 McKeon Rd.<BR>
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|4865 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||No||Patch with Shrewsbury 154.2350||2025.04.19 MASSBUSMARK
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05-120 All Stations Alert
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|4867 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||No||Fire Ops A||2023.08.11 mjd553
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|4869 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||No||Fire Ops B||
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|4871 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||No||Fire Ops C||
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|4873 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||YES||Fire Tac 10||
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|4875 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Fire||No||Fire Training||
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|4885 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Police||No||Police Primary||2024.01.04 ecps92
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|4887 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Police||No||Police Secondary||
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|4901 '''TDMA'''||Howard W Beals School||No||Ch 01||2024.01.04 ecps92
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|4903 '''TDMA'''||Howard W Beals School||No||Ch 02||
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|4905 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury DPW||No||Public Works||
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|4907 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury DPW||No||Public Works||
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|4913 '''TDMA'''||Shrewsbury Electric Cable||No||SELCO||
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{{Quicklist Footer2|Worcester}}
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'''Common Worcester Police Department Talkgroups'''<BR>
 
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08-041 F1 East Dispatch (Routes 1-10)<BR>
 
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08-042 F2 West Dispatch (Routes 11-20)<BR>
 
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08-081 F3 CJIS<BR>
 
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09-001 F4 Talkaround<BR>
 
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08-121 F5 Talkaround<BR>
 
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08-043 F6 Tac-1/Talkaround<BR>
 
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08-045 F11 Details<BR>
 
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04-085 F16 Talkaround (actually a Fire Mutual Aid channel but never heard anything but PD)<BR>
 
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08-125 Detective Bureau<BR>
 
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08-127 Arson Investigators<BR>
 
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08-123 PD/Fire/EMS Common Tie<BR>
 
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'''Worcester Airport Talkgroups'''<BR>
 
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13-046 Airport Police<BR>
 
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12-053 Airport Emergency Comms<BR>
 
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12-130 Airport Admin (General Communications)<BR>
 
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12-135 Airport Tower<BR>
 
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12-136 Airport Ground<BR>
 
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12-137 Airport Unicomm<BR>
 
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Not too much activitiy on these talkgroups, especially during off hours, but they should be picking up with Worcester getting commercial jets back in November.
 
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--[[User:130.215.228.154|130.215.228.154]] 23:35, 11 Oct 2005 (EDT)
 

Latest revision as of 18:49, 28 October 2025

Worcester Regional

  • Modified Worcester License with the P25 frequencies.
  • System is part of the larger CoMIRS State P25 system.
  • Site 001-0036 - 3 Simulcast Sites.
  • NAC D16
  • Talkgroups are a mix of Phase 1 (FDMA) and Phase 2 (TDMA). TDMA Talkgroups will have a "TDMA" after the Talkgroup"
  • Conventional Frequencies can be found on the appopriate Worcester County page.
Table of contents -

P25 Trunk Frequencies

Frequency Usage Confirmation/Reconfirmation
858.1375 CC Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
857.2625 CC and Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
856.8375 CC and Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
856.5125 CC Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
854.1375 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
854.2125 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
854.4625 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
855.4875 ? Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
854.8875 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
855.7125 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
855.7375 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
855.9625 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.
856.2625 Voice Please see Worcester Site on the CoMIRS page for confirmation.

Talkgroups

Regional

Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
2507 FD7 Orange Patched to Fire District 7 (Orange) - 159.4575. 2022.05.25 ecps92
2509 FD8 Simulcast Mid-State Simulcast - Inter-op on 453.7500 / 31.1000 - TG: 40144 on Analog Zone 8 2022.05.25 ecps92
627 Fire Wide Area For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealths TRS Please see CoMIRS for Confirmation.
4589 SP Holden Tie 2022.05.25 ecps92
629 Police Wide Area For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS Please see CoMIRS for Confirmation.
631 Worcester EMS Wide Area For use outside of Worcester on the Commonwealth TRS Please see CoMIRS for Confirmation.
625 Worcester EMA Wide Area Emergency Managment
For use outside of Worc on the Commonwealth TRS		 Please see CoMIRS for Confirmation.

Worcester

  • Please visit the Worcester Department Information page for detailed fire and ems information.
  • The two fire simulcasts are not always active. The South County simulcast is active much more often. Fire alarm has the ability to patch these talkgroups to fireground channels.

Fire Department

  • Fire Dispatch, Single tone - One Company or Message, Two tones - Multi Companies, Three tones - Reported Building Fires or SCUBA alerts.
Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4433 F1 FD Admin Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4435 F2 Fire OPS-A North End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4437 F3 Fire OPS B South End Multi Company Responses - Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4439 F4 Fire OPS C Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) - Patched to 460.0500 (DPL 051) 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4441 F5 Fire OPS D Additional Multi Company Response 2022.05.25 ecps92
4443 Dispatch Used to dispatch all calls (See note above) 2022.05.25 ecps92
4451 Fire Prevention Fire Code Enforcement 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4445 TDMA TAC-10 Training/Overflow Fireground channel 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4447 TDMA TAC-11 Training/Overflow Fireground channel 2022.05.25 ecps92
4449 TDMA TAC-12 Info sharing channel (Encrypted) 2019.03.28 W1KNE

Police Department

Talkgroup Use Comments Encrypted Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4369 F1 East Dispatch Routes 1-10 No 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4371 F2 West Dispatch Routes 11-20 No 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4373 TDMA F3 CJIS/NCIC Record Checks Yes 2022.05.25 ecps92
4375 TDMA F4 TRAFFIC Traffic Enforcement Yes 2022.05.25 ecps92
4377 TDMA F5 Talk-around Yes 2022.05.25 ecps92
4379 TDMA F6 TAC-1 Yes 2022.05.25 ecps92
4393 F9 ?? Yes 2022.05.25 ecps92

EMS

Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4481 EMS Citywide Dispatch 462.9500 MED-9 used to communicate with private & mutual aid ambulances handling 911 overflow calls, not linked 2025.03.01 MASSBUSMARK
4485 WEMS 2 2022.05.25 ecps92
4487 WEMS 3 2016.08.10 WFD
4489 CMED Interop 2016.08.10.WFD

Citywide Talkgroups

  • The Interagency talkgroup is primarily used for communication between FD and EMS or PD and EMS.
  • The events channels are in every PD and FD radio. (maybe more?)
  • The 911 Emergency talkgroup is in every city radio, as well as WRTA buses. It is monitored by a Fire Department dispatcher. It usually is used by DPW workers or WRTA drivers to report MVAs or medical emergencies. During a recent disaster drill it was used for communication between the dispatcher and incident commander.
Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4353 Emergency Management 2016.03.31 ScanWorcester
4577 TDMA Event A
4579 TDMA Event B
4581 TDMA Event C
4583 911 Emergency / Call in 2022.05.25 ecps92
4585 Fire / EMS / PD 2024.02.16 W1KNE

Airport Talkgroups

  • Airport vehicles also have access to 120.5000 ORH Tower to talk to the tower while driving in/on the runway areas.
  • Some of these Talkgroups will also appear on the Massport-Boston Zone
Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
51 ORH Fire Department 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
85 MSP F PATROL 3 Also heard on analog Zone 8 2022.04.04 GaryS
179 ORH Security/ARFF 2016.09.11 mjd553
177 ORH Emergency 2016.08.01 WorcNews
183 ORH Maintenance 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
185 ORH Operations 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)

Public Works Talkgroups

  • All public works talkgroups are TDMA (Phase II).
Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4513 TDMA DPW Snow Plows 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4515 TDMA DPW Garage 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4517 TDMA DPW Sewer Dept 2022.05.25 ecps92
4519 TDMA DPW Street Dept 2022.05.25 ecps92
4521 TDMA DPW Water Dept 2022.05.25 ecps92
4523 TDMA DPW Engineering 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4525 TDMA DPW Water Filtration 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4527 TDMA DPW Sanitation 2024.02.16 W1KNE
4529 TDMA DPW Parking 2022.05.25 ecps92
4531 TDMA DPW - Parks Maintenance 2020.03.15 Sawyer100 (SNE Submitter)
4535 TDMA DPW Cemeteries 2016.04.20
4537 TDMA DPW Forestry 2022.05.25 ecps92

School Department Talkgroups

Talkgroup Use Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4561 TDMA School Transport - A 2025.10.24 MASSBUSMARK
4563 TDMA School Transport - B 2025.10.24 MASSBUSMARK
4565 TDMA School Administration

Shrewsbury

  • All TGs are Phase II/TDMA
Talkgroup Use Encrypted Comments Confirmation/Reconfirmation
4865 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire No Patch with Shrewsbury 154.2350 2025.04.19 MASSBUSMARK
4867 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire No Fire Ops A 2023.08.11 mjd553
4869 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire No Fire Ops B
4871 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire No Fire Ops C
4873 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire YES Fire Tac 10
4875 TDMA Shrewsbury Fire No Fire Training
4885 TDMA Shrewsbury Police No Police Primary 2024.01.04 ecps92
4887 TDMA Shrewsbury Police No Police Secondary
4901 TDMA Howard W Beals School No Ch 01 2024.01.04 ecps92
4903 TDMA Howard W Beals School No Ch 02
4905 TDMA Shrewsbury DPW No Public Works
4907 TDMA Shrewsbury DPW No Public Works
4913 TDMA Shrewsbury Electric Cable No SELCO


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