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Codes / Units / Station Lists

Fire / EMS Stations

3 - Weirton Area Ambulance And Rescue Squad (WAARS) - not in use
4 - Lawrenceville
5 - New Manchester
6 - Chester
7 - Newell
8 - Oakland District
9 - New Cumberland

Weirton Fire Department

Station 1 (Municipal Plaza)
 - Apparatus:   Engine 3, Tower 1, Squad 5, Boat 9

Station 2 (Maryland Heights)
 - Apparatus:  Engine 21, Squad 22, Ski 28, Boat 29

Station 3 (Gilson Ave)
 - Apparatus:  Engine 4, Tower 2, Squad 6

Station 4 (North End)
 - Apparatus:   Engine 2, Command

Hancock County LTR Systems

Any scanner that can trunk an LTR system can trunk the systems below. Even without a trunking scanner, you can often listen to the agencies on that system simply by tuning in the home repeater that they operate on. However, if the system gets busy or the home repeater for that agency is in use, you may hear that agency on a different repeater.

To learn more about LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) systems please see Logic Trunked Radio

Taken from the above Wiki article, an LTR talkgroup looks like this:

A-HH-GGG
 - where A   = Area (0 or 1) - on these systems the area is always 0
 - where HH  = Home Repeater (preferred repeater for that agency)
 - where GGG = Group Number (identifying individual agencies)

An Example

Talkgroup 1-01-004 on the Chester system is New Cumberland Ambulance

1   = the Area (will be the same for all talkgroups on a particular system)
01  = Home Repeater
    - LCN 01 is 454.175
004 = New Cumberland Ambulance

So, in the case of NC Ambulance, you will predominantly hear their traffic on LCN 01 (454.175) since this is their home repeater. However, if 454.175 is busy [or down], you'll hear their traffic on LCN 02 (454.05).

Using NC Ambulance as an example again, if you want to be sure to hear all of their transmissions on the system, you must program the proper LTR system in and run it in either open mode (Uniden), use a Wildcard Group ID (GRE PSRs), or program the specific talkgroup in.

You could potentially program in the LTR frequencies conventionally, but then you will hear all agencies on the system and will be unable to lock out the ones you do not want to hear.

Lauttamus UHF (Weirton)

This is a 3-channel LTR system (as of 5-5-09) using LCNs 1, 2, and 3

LCN      Frequency      Notes
---      ---------      ---------------------------------------
LCN 01   454.450        (confirmed)
LCN 02   462.050        (confirmed)
LCN 03   464.050        (confirmed)

Talkgroup   Agency
---------   --------------------------------------------
0-01-005    unid
0-01-035    unid
0-01-036    New Cumberland Ambulance (on Weirton system)
0-01-039    unid
0-01-045    Robert Wellington Enterprises - Refuse Hauler

NOTE: As of 5-5-09, the LCNs for two of the frequencies are not confirmed. As such, you may not be able to track this properly. The LCNs in use are 1/2/3 but we are unsure which frequency is assigned LCN2 and which is assigned LCN3.

Lauttamus UHF (Chester)

This is a 2-channel LTR system (as of 5-5-09) using LCNs 1, and 2

LCN      Frequency      Notes
---      ---------      ---------------------------------------
LCN 01   454.175        (confirmed)
LCN 02   454.050        (confirmed)

Talkgroup   Agency
---------   ------------------------------------------------
1-01-004    New Cumberland Ambulance (on Chester system)
1-02-001    unid
1-02-003    unid
1-02-006    some taxicab company in Chester/Newell/ELO area