Jackson County (NC)

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Welcome to the Jackson County Wiki Page. Please feel free to add any information found that relates to the county.

JC Sheriff's Office

The county sheriff's office is operating Kenwood mixed mode NXDN and FMN on 453.62500MHz with a PL tone of 173.8Hz and NXDN RAN 1

County Unit IDs

J1, Sheriff
Adam-x through Edward-x, patrol deputies
J-x, other deputies
Western 101 is Chief of campus police for Western Carolina University, the University's dispatch IDs as Western. PD units have 101-140ish. CatTran ops use the assigned bus number or route for their units.
EMS 20 is a basic life support ambulance with crew maintained by and responding to the university answering tones from Western EOC. WCU EMS units maintain 1100 radio numbers.
SP900 series, Sylva Police (SP is not always used)
100 series, EMS, Harris is the provider, ambulances with crew ID as "Medic 3,4 & 5"
200 series, Rescue Squad Unit 1, Dispatched on 458.775, has a dedicated repeater on King's Mtn
500 series, Glenville-Cashiers Rescue Squad-EMS, Ambulance with crew IDs as "55x"
- Fire Departments: All departments are dispatched on 453.400 which serves as a hailing channel for the departments' dedicated repeaters. Apparatus is IDed as "d5x" where "d" is the department and "x" is a number.
300 series, Sylva VFD
400 series Cullowhee VFD
600 series Glenville-Cashiers VFD
700 series Savannah VFD
800 series Balsam VFD
900 series Qualla VFD, often heard as "Qualla 9xx" to avoid confusion with "SP 9xx"
1100 series Canada VFD (Also WCU EMS units)
1500 series North Carolina Forest Service answers tones for brush fires
About EMS20: The Western Carolina University EMS Basic Life Support Ambulance is EMS 20 or sometimes called 1120. The Chief of Western EMS is known as 1101 on "Western" communications. Each Medic is assgined a number beginning with 11 and their unit will be 11-30. Officers are 1101-1105. If more than two medics are on call or sports stand-by, they will communicate over "Western" Communications and will not use the call sign "EMS 20" unless the ambulance is dispatched. EMS 20 does encode to Harris Regoinal Hospital over VIPER. EMS 20 is staffed by Western STUDENTS who maintain their North Carolina or National Registry EMT certification. EMS 20 can also respond to any calls in Jackson county if called upon by Harris EMS. "Western" dispatch located on campus at WCU handles all radio traffic and dispatching for WCU PD as well as other campus functions including the CatTran & Parking services.

Western Carolina University

"Western" is the on-campus dispatch center
EMS 20 is the on-campus ambulance (as mentioned previously)
The conventional DMR network is disappearing (as of March 2023) with only EMS and campus police being noted as active with full encryption.
Call box frequency is still in use on analog

Other Unit IDs

G5xx Highway Patrol trooper operating on the county's system
"XGA" refers to the Asheville Patrol office(from their teletype ID).
E-1 county Emergency Services Coordinator
FM-1 county Fire Marshall

Fire Tone-Out

Cullowhee Vol. FD. Tone A: 1185.9 Tone B: 1217.9