Aliant Trunked Mobile Radio System (Motorola 800MHz)

Aliant Trunked Mobile Radio System (Motorola 800MHz) TRS

System Name	Aliant Trunked Mobile Radio System (Motorola 800MHz)
System Type	Motorola Type II SmartZone OmniLink
System ID	6919, 6D39
Connect Tone	83.72, 105.88
Wide Area Communications Network	?
Network Access Code	?
TRBO Color Code	?
NXDN RAN
Band	800
Ownership	Aliant
City	Multiple
County	Nova Scotia, York
Province	Provincewide
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System Description

Please be aware that this system is currently being replaced by the Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island Trunked Radio (P25) in 2014/2015. Agencies listed below have either already or are currently migrating to the new system.

The Aliant Nova Scotia Trunked Mobile Radio System (TMRS) is a 69-site Motorola SmartZone Omnilink system in the 800 MHz public safety band, consisting of two zones, operated in the province of Nova Scotia, as well as the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick. "Zone 1" reports a Motorola system ID of 6939, and roughly consists of the entire western and central parts of the province (to an imaginary line drawn from approximately Pugwash to Sherbrooke. "Zone 2" reports an ID of 6D19, and consists of the rest of the province, including Cape Breton Island and the three sites in the city of Fredericton. All public safety portables are believed to be permitted seamless roaming from zone to zone. Talkgroups consist of a mixture of analog, digital P25 and encryption.

Major Users

Major tenants of the TMRS include the following public safety agencies:

• Emergency Health Services (EHS), the province-wide ambulance provider
• RCMP "H" Division
• Halifax Regional Police (HRP)
• Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Services (HRFES)
• Some town police departments
• Ground search and rescue agencies
• Emergency Management Offices (EMO)
• Red Cross
• City of Fredericton, NB police, fire and EMO

As well most volunteer fire departments have some capability of communicating on the TMRS, in addition to their own radio system.

Many non-emergency users also make extensive use of the TMRS:

• Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR - previously knows as the Department of Transportation, or DOT)
• Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Wildlife Conservation officers
• Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), public works and transit
• Department of Justice, sheriffs and corrections centres
• Federal departments of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and National Defence (DND), as well as the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

Spare network capacity is also rented by Aliant to various businesses.

Halifax Regional Police

When the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, and the town of Bedford were merged with the former Halifax County in 1996 to form Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), the three city and town police forces merged as well to become Halifax Regional Police (HRP). Police service in the rest of the former Halifax County had been and continue to be provided by the RCMP.

All HRP talkgroups are at minimum digital, with some investigative talkgroups using encryption as well. HRP is dispatched from the HRM Integrated Emergency Services (IES) dispatch centre in Dartmouth, which also dispatches Halifax Regional Fire and some RCMP members (see RCMP section below).

HRP operates in three zones within the metro HRM, called East (Dartmouth and surrounding area), Central (Halifax peninsula) and West (mainland Halifax and Bedford). Each zone has two talkgroups, a primary and secondary, with the primary talkgroup being used for the majority of radio traffic, and the secondary as a backup, either for major incidents or for side conversations between officers or dispatch. In addition there are three common-use talkgroups, called COMM 1 to COMM 3, which are available to all officers for special events or other purposes. There is also a CPIC talkgroup, which is used so that officers can request records checks from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC), which is a national database available to all law enforcement agencies. The CPIC talkgroup is staffed by a dedicated dispatcher.

RCMP

All RCMP talkgroups are at minimum using digital voice modulation, as well as some more sensitive talkgroups (used for investigations) use encryption, meaning those cannot be monitored using any scanner. Each detachment or office in the province has its' own talkgroup. All RCMP members operating from that detachment communicate on that detachment's talkgroup, and are dispatched from the RCMP communications centre located in Truro.

The major exception to this are RCMP officers operating within the old Halifax County, outside of the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth and the town of Bedford. Those RCMP officers are dispatched by Halifax Regional Municipality's Integrated Emergency Services (IES) dispatch centre in Dartmouth, and some operate off of Halifax Regional Police (HRP) talkgroups, along side HRP officers. Specifically the Lower Sackville and Cole Harbour detachments no longer use their talkgroups, and now operate off of the HRP West and East talkgroups, respectively.

Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Services

HRFES is the fire department covering the entire Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). The HRFES consists of two "areas," the core and rural areas. Core stations (stations 2-18) are those operating within the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the town of Bedford and Sackville. The rural area consists of those stations operating outside of the core area, and is further divided into response zones, numbere 1-6. Zone 1 (stations 19-26) and 2 (stations 28-34) roughly cover the eastern shore, zone 3 (stations 35-40) is the Musquodoboit Valley, zone 4 (stations 41-48) is the area along highway 102 from Waverley to the Halifax International Airport, and zones 5 and 6 (which are collectively referred to as the 'western region', stations 50-63) is the area west of Halifax including Hammonds Plains and the Saint Margaret's Bay, Prospect Bay and Sambro areas.

Talkgroups are divided into two groups, core and rural, with each group consisting of a primary dispatching talkgroup and six operations talkgroups. Hence, there is both a core and rural dispatch (DISP-C and DISP-R), and twelve operations talkgroups (OPS2-C to OPS7-C and OPS2-R to OPS7-R). Station and volunteer paging is done via VHF transmitters, and those frequencies are contained in the Halifax County section of the database. Dispatching is done from the HRM Integrated Emergency Services (IES) dispatch centre in Dartmouth, which also dispatches for the Halifax Regional Police.

Emergency Health Services

EHS is the province's ambulance system, with the ground and air ambulance system under contract to Emergency Medical Care (EMC), a subsidiary of Medavie Blue Cross.

EHS divides the province into the following regions: Central (metro Halifax-Dartmouth area), West 1 (Annapolis Valley), West 2 (south shore), North 1 (Colchester and Cumberland counties), North 2 (eastern shore, Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough counties), CB 1 (Cape Breton Regional Municipality) and CB 2 (the rest of Cape Breton Island. Each region has its' own talkgroup, and four tactical talkgroups are provided, as well as a major events talkgroup (called disaster) and hospital talkgroups for ambulances checking in with hospitals before they arrive. LifeFlight, which is EHS' air ambulance, has its' own talkgroup called 'AMT AIR'.

External Links

• Google Map of the TMR

• A message board focusing on the maritime provinces

• A map showing all sites can be found here

Return to: Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Integrated Mobile Radio System, Dispatching centres in Nova Scotia
Return to: Department of Justice, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal
Return to: Halifax County (NS) Regional Fire and Emergency, Halifax Regional Police
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