[Scan-DC] 460.600 - Port Deposit?

Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:05:48 -0400

On 3 Aug 2002 at 18:08, John M. Nash" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Because of the weather I'm picking up a skip on 460.600 which should
> be Fairfax FD 4B. I'm picking up fire operations but can't determine
> the jurisdiction. Command 5 is working with a number of units with 5xx
> designations.  I'm guessing a Maryland location I think near Edgewood.
> Is there a Port Deposit somewhere?

460.600 is Harford County, Maryland's primary fire dispatch channel.

Harford County is in the northeastern part of MD, for those who are 
not familiar. Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Broad Creek Boy Scout Camp, 
Edgewood Arsenal, Conowingo Dam, Peachbottom Atomic Power Plant. Me.

Port Deposit is in Cecil County, just the other side of the 
Susquehanna River. Immediately on the north side of Conowingo Dam on 
U.S. Route 1. Perhaps you heard Harford County responding to a mutual 
aid call in Cecil County, since Port Deposit is on the county lines, 
separated only by the river. Each county can operate the other's 
frequencies, especially for stations near the common borders.

Harford County sheriff and public safety has signed a multizillion 
dollar agreement to go to a batwing digital 800 system within the 
next few years. The current UHF system works well and is perfectly 
adequate, but Motorola decided the county hadn't spent enough money 
with them lately so they directed the county to replace the UHF 
system with the 800.

Trunking the 20 or so UHF channels from the various county agencies 
would have made much more sense.

I do some commo and covert operations electronics for the multi 
jurisdictional drug task force operating in this area, so I am fairly 
intimate with the systems up here.

Steve

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