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Boone County WEB

Public Safety Joint Communications Center

  • As of 4/25, Centralia Police and Fire, now dispatched by Boone County Joint Communications (on 155.31)
  • As of 7/25, Columbia is now dispatched on 155.04 136.5, instead of 155.31.
  • 7/25 - Boone Main Law is still 155.31 94.8 PL as before, now dispatching Boone County Sheriff, Hallsville, Ashland, and Centralia Police departments. It is assumed that Sturgeon Police are also dispatched here, but has not been confirmed.
  • Boone County 2 on 155.19 appears to still be in use, however, traffic stops and subject checks have been occuring on Main Law. Traffic heard has mainly been car to car communications.

In the near future, they are supposed to be splitting the law enforcement dispatch into separate channels (4/25)

  • County and municipal dispatch channel
  • Columbia Dispatch Channel
  • County and Municipal 2 (used for self-initiated and running people)
  • Columbia 2 (likely will stay the same)
  • 3/24 add remote links on 453.425, 458.425, 453.925, 458.925 200-25W WQDU239
  • 155.04 Repeater with 151.385 (D152 in) 136.5 PL out County Law 4 FMN 155.04 WRCV512 (w/ WRCU883) 151.385 is WRBW263
  • 155.625 Repeater with 159.1875 input Law 5 P25 Law Tac 155.625 WPCP681 159.1875 WRBW263
  • Note: WRCU883 155.04, has 4 bases, as Sturgeon, Ashland, Columbia, Hallsville with 500-50W mobiles.

2/25 - Possible Future Simulcast MOSWIN site on

  • 855.4625, 856.7125, 857.7125, 858.7125, 858.7125, 854.0625 (NFM/16K) at multiple locations WRVG915
  • 856.0625, 857.0625, 858.0625 at 3 locations in Columbia (WFM) "GE" for local government operations. WQZB580
  • 2/25 FCC Modification 0011419230 add associated call signs WRVG915, WQNC847
    • Change from GE Conventional to YE Trunked into 6 site simulcast?? -
    • 854.0625, 854.9625, 855.4625, 856.0625, 856.7125, 857.0625, 857.7125, 858.0625, 858.7125, 859.7125
  • Boone County is in the process of building their brand new Joint Communications center on the same property that the Sheriff's Dept.
  • The radio technology has not been clarified publicly.
  • A new tower and equipment building will be at Battle High School.

News Articles:

Boone County Sheriff's Department

Current radio tower at Boone County Sheriff's Dept
  • Boone County and Columbia city have a joint dispatch center.
  • Units heard: "Columbia Command"

Rural Police

  • Columbia, Centralia, Hallsville, Sturgeon, Ashland

Other city police departments in Boone County using Columbia Joint Communications, 155.31

7A1-7P35 Ashland Police Department
8A1-8P12 Hallsville Police Department

EMS Agencies

Locations serving Boone County

Medic Name Location
Medic 151 Boone Hospital Ambulance Boone Hospital - Columbia
Medic 111 Boone Hospital Ambulance Vandiver Base - Columbia
Medic 211 UMC Ambulance University Hospital - Columbia
Medic 221 UMC Ambulance Ellis Fischel Hospital - Columbia
Medic 231 UMC Ambulance Woodrail Base - Columbia
Medic 131 Boone Hospital Ambulance Boone Hospital Clinic - Centralia
Medic 241 UMC Ambulance UMC Ambulance Base - Ashland

Boone County EMS

  • 155.265 Repeaters at Harrisburg-HOWARD, Ashland, Sturgeon-BOONE, Hallsville, Columbia WQSL552
  • 155.265 Repeater with pagers (NFM at Centralia) WQSL553

UMC EMS

  • UoM New Ambulance

  • The brand new Ambulance is one of the first ambulances in Mid-Mo to have four wheel drive. They stated that they are planning in March of 2016 that they will be getting another one of these ambulances.

U of M Lifeflight Helicopter

  • UoM Lifeflight Helicopter

Municipalities and Districts

Townships/Water Districts

Boone County Public Water Supply District 1

  • 173.39625 4wt Fixed at 3 locations (6K Digital) in Columbia WRXH920 Issued 5/23
  • 153.635 Base/Mobile; FX2 on 451.175, FX1 on 456.125 (all NFM) WRXH928 Issued 5/23

Public Water Supply District 9 WEB

  • 218.3 Fixed Bases (2wt NFM Digital) at 2 Columbia locations WRWK527 Issued 3/23
  • 218.3 Fixed Bases (2wt NFM Digital) at 4 Columbia, Centralia, Fulton locations WRWK528 Issued 3/23

Boone County Fire Protection District * MAP

  • 154.43 Repeater with 154.07 (D074 in) 94.8 PL Fire: Dispatch - South [Ch 1] KLK578

On-Scene Communications Has a system that when they are on scene of an incident the person in command will have a flashing green light on the command vehicle.
The incident commander will be the one in command of all radio traffic to Boone County Joint Communications.

  • 154.43 repeaters at Ashland, Centralia, Harrisburg (Howard), Hallsville, Columbia WQQG271
Population Served: 35,000
Area Served: 500 Square Miles
Number of Alarms Annually: 4,300 (average)
Personnel: 400+ (including those assigned to Missouri Task Force 1)
Number of Apparatus: 50

When units talk back to dispatch their brevity is always "Engine 901 Boone County" and then Boone County responds back.

Frequency  Input   
License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
154.43000  154.07000   KLK578   RM  94.8 PL  BCFPD Dispatch 1 Fire: Dispatch - South [Ch 1]  FMN  Fire Dispatch 
452.42500      KLK578   F  94.8 PL  BCFPD RF 3 Fire: Remote Link (FX2 Sturgeon, Ashland)   FMN  Fire Dispatch 
457.42500      KLK578   F  94.8 PL  BCFPD RF 4 Fire: Remote Link (FX2 Columiba)   FMN  Fire Dispatch 
154.11500      WNBY433   BM  94.8 PL  BCFPD FG-4 Gold Fireground Gold/Tac-4 [Ch 4] [Expired 3/25]  FMN  Fire-Tac 
153.83000      WPRY340   M  94.8 PL  BCFPD FG-3 Yellw Fireground Yellow/Tac-3 [Ch 3]  FMN  Fire-Tac 
154.17500      WPRY340   M  94.8 PL  BCFPD FG-5 Gray Fireground Gray/Tac-5 [Ch 5]  FMN  Fire-Tac 
154.38500      WPRY340   M  94.8 PL  BCFPD FG-6 Brown Fireground Brown [Ch 6] (Columbia Tac-2)  FMN  Fire-Tac 
452.42500      KLK578   F  072 DPL  BCFPD RF 1 Fire: Remote Link - Columbia to 154.43R (South County)  FMN  Fire Dispatch 
452.42500      KLK578   F  156.7 PL  BCFPD RF 2 Fire: Remote Link  FMN  Fire Dispatch 

Southern Boone County Fire Protection District (Ashland)

S Boone Co FPD
Engine 17. 2015 Rosenbauer/Peterbilt 1,500/800 Pumper
Frequency  Input   
License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
155.55000  153.90500   WQJA541   RM  91.5 PL  SoBoone Fire Fire: Dispatch/Paging/Ops  FMN  Fire Dispatch 
159.04500      WQJA541   M    SoBoone FG Fireground  FMN  Fire-Tac 


Photo of Engine 17 by Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, Arnold, MO. Apr. 28 2016.

  • Uses the same radio identifiers as Boone County FPD


Ashland

Police dispatch by BC Joint Communications, assumed on the Sheriff channel.

  • 155.04 Base/Mobiles (former) Police (freq used on MOSWIN 1-013) WPGX499 FMN Deprecated 7/26/25

Centralia (City) WEB

  • As of 4/25, Police and Fire, dispatched by Boone County Joint Communications.

Centralia Police

  • Disbanded Police Dispatch (4/25)
    • DSN radio call like the rest of Boone County. Such as 11P88 would be a Centralia Patrol Officer.
  • 155.115 RM 159.2175{{Callsign|WPBH443}] Police: Dispatch (was 155.535 141.3) [DB JointComm]
  • add 159.1125 Mobile Extenders (6/13) {{Callsign|WPBH443}]

MOSWIN Talkgroup 24803 Centralia on MOSWIN; a low activity

Centralia Public Works

  • 173.2375 FX0 5W for Water Data WRWG526 Issued 2/23

Columbia WEB

  • As of 7/25, Police is NO LONGER on County Main Law, they are using 155.04 136.5 PL Boone Law 4.
  • Police 2, 156.15 appears to still be in use; however, the use of the channel has been of various natures and not limited to self-initiated and subject checks only.
  • 153.905 350 mobiles, listed as input to 154.19R or 155.745 (NFM) Both Repeaters show other inputs in DB KB35870
  • 152.12 is FBBS (Fixed Base Stand-By) with 340 W power (CD-Paging License) WQNG741 (FCC Link)

Columbia Police

  • Police Beat Map (Updated 2019)
  • dispatched on ????
  • 154.755 Repeater with 151.145 (D071 in) 94.8 PL Police: Traffic Stops [Ch 2] FMN WXP405
  • 158.9625 Repeater with 151.0325 input 110.9 PL Police; Tactical 1 [158.9625 licensed as FX1, 151.0325 no license]
155.31  Shared by County Sheriff and Columbia Police and Ashland Police, Hallsvillie Police
155.475  Joint Communications Repeater (Columbia, Howard Co, Ashland, Stugeon, Hallsville)
854.9625  Repeater-Wideband for Law OpsWQNC847
152.12  FBBS 340 wt power; possibly for paging? WQNG741  

453.425  Remote Link 1-Columbia (for 155.745 R)
453.925  RF-2, Remote Link- Columbia (for 155.745 R)
460.525  RF-4, Remote Link- Columbia (for 155.745 R)

156.15 - Police Car-to-Car/Detectives [Ch 3]
           (confirmed as having voice inversion/analog encryption available)
  • Columbia Police CH2 has switched from BM to RM. Not sure on the input freq. yet but it is definitely a repeater/mobile system now (Updated 3/01/16)

Columbia Fire

Type of Frequency Frequency
Dispatch 154.19
CFD Mobiles 154.01
Columbia Tac 2 (Brown) 154.385
  • 154.19 Repeater with 154.01 (D271 in) 94.8 PL Fire: Dispatch [Ch 1] KDJ485
  • Fire may be using MOSWIN
  • 3/25 New mobile extenders on 852.4125/807.4125 (P25) WSHS876 Issued 4/25

Columbia Water Utilities

  • 155.25 Repeater with 158.85 input (NFM) for Water Treatment Plant WQQI406
  • 159.0075 Mobiles (NFM) for Water/Light Department WNUX994
  • 153.71 Repeater with 158.175 input; Mobiles on 159.8175 (NFM) for Water Treatment KAH344
    • add 152.885 at Stephens Water Tower-Columbia (NFM)
  • 854.9625 Repeater for City Ops (Please submit if use known); 10/12 add 800 MHz Mutual Aid Repeaters WQNC847
  • Water and Light Dept. - 153.5 Repeater with 159.54 input (NFM) WPGV963

Unit Designators / Stations / Codes

  • Sheriff/ Law Enforcement WIKI
  • Fire/EMS WIKI

Hospitals

Boone Hospital Medical Center (Columbia) WEB

Frequency Input License Type Tone Out Tone In Alpha Tag Description Mode Tag
461.025 KB75336 Repeater
464.575 KB75336 Portables
462.75 WNYW805 Base/pagers for Hospital/Clinics
  • 463.475 Repeater (NFM/DMR) (unconfirmed usage) WNRQ277


Columbia Regional Hospital WEB

(Owned by University of Missouri)

Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital (Columbia)

VA Police using APX7000 HTs and a APX7500 Consolette in P25 phase 1 conventional. Due to a recent VA mandate, nearly all communications are encrypted.

  • New radio system for EM and FMS on 11/22/19, FMS using APX900's in P25 phase 1 (NAC 293).
  • Emergency Management using APX900's in P25 phase 1 (NAC 293)
  • Paging System - R-Comm Radio Paging Terminal
Frequency  Input   
Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
407.83750  416.83750   RM  293 NAC  HSTMVH FcMgt Facilities Management  FMN  Federal 
408.23750  417.23750   RM  293 NAC  HSTMVH Police Police  FMN  Law Dispatch 
164.06250      B  254.1 PL  HSTMVH Paging Paging (POCSAG)  FMN  Data 
408.00000  417.00000   RM  293 NAC  HSTMVH EM Emergency Management  FMN  Emergency Ops 


University of Missouri Health Care (Columbia) WEB

  • Fire - 154.145 Mobiles (NFM) WPRY340
Frequency  License  Type  Tone  Alpha Tag  Description  Mode  Tag 
154.96500  KNGS417   BM  192.8 PL  Staff 4 Life Staff-for-Life Helicopter (ARCH)  FMN  EMS Dispatch 
155.23500  WXK693   BM  141.3 PL  UMC Hosp ER Emergency Room  FMN  Business 
153.96500  KNGS417   M    UMC Hosp 1 Operations  FMN  Business 
155.26500  WXK693   BM  94.8 PL  UMC EMS EMS: Dispatch  FMN  EMS Dispatch 


SiteNameFreqs      
001 (1) Shurz Hall855.212500 856.212500 857.212500 858.212500 859.212500c 859.937500c 860.212500

Description

Former Use

  • 163.25 KVE253 B Doctor/ Staff Paging UMC Hospital [Canceled 7/13]
  • 464.975 WPWB808 BM unknown [Canceled 7/13]


Schools and Colleges

  • See Boone County Schools and Colleges WIKI

Airports

Columbia Regional Airport (COU)

See WIKI and/or Database page

Related Pages

  • Boone County Medical WIKI ##############can be reused or deleted
  • Boone County Trunking Info WIKI
  • Boone County Utilities WIKI
  • Boone County-Businesses, Media, Recreation and Attractions WIKI, Database
  • Columbia Regional Airport Database page and/or WIKI


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