All Lycoming County UHF Frequnecies PL is 173.8
154.430 Lycoming County Fire Dispatch 1 (158.850 repeater input)
153.950 fire tac 2
154.010 fire tac 3
155.340 fire tac 4
154.340 fire tac 5
154.400 fire tac 6
154.980 County EMA (county gov't dispatching/constables/EMA/Sheriff's office etc.) (159.195 repeater input)
155.220 All local Municipal EMA's tac & Williamsport EMA/Civil Defense Dispatch & paging
155.310 Lycoming county police dispatch (159.390 repeater input)
155.490 Lycoming county police 2 (regional) (no PL)
156.030 Lycoming County police tac. 3 (PL 167.9 for county only)
453.250 County EMA repeater (458.250 repeater input) (PL 167.9-Bald Eagle and 173.8 for Huntersville)
453.275 Lycoming County Prision (PL 173.8)
453.225 Lycoming County Prision Pre-release center/Land Fill (PL 173.8)
453.325 Williamsport Parking Authority (458.325 is repeater input) 158.805 Porter Twp. All Services
154.665 PA State Police Base to Mobile (PL 186.2)
158.910 PA State Police Mobile To Base (PL 186.2)
154.755 PA State Police Mobile To Mobile (PL 186.2)
155.475 National police tac. 5
155.565 South Williamsport Police tac. 4 (PL 167.9)
BASE MOBILE PL's 173.8
463.000/468.000 MED 1
463.025/468.025 MED 2
463.050/468.050 MED 3
463.075/468.075 MED 4
463.100/468.100 MED 5
463.125/468.125 MED 6
463.150/468.150 MED 7
463.175/468.175 MED 8
462.950/467.950 MED 9
462.975/467.975 MED 10
155.640 Old Lycoming police tac. 4 (PL 167.9)
154.235 Hepburn Twp. Fire tac. 8 (PL 167.9)
163.9375/167.675 R.A. repeater
167.600 FBI
163.9875/167.325 FBI Repeater
CH 1; 167.7125 FBI
CH 2; 167.500 FBI
CH 3; 167.5625 FBI
CH 4; 167.525 FBI
CH 5; 163.9625 FBI
ECC-1; 163.8375/167.3875 FBI Repeater;
163.9375 FBI Repeater;
167.2625; FBI
167.300; FBI
167.325; FBI
167.3375; FBI
419.325 data/tone, FBI
155.160 Life Flight (PL 151.4)
155.985 Lycoming County Fire Police tac. 9 (PL 167.9)
154.055 Hepburn Twp. Highway (PL 167.9)
158.745 Trout Run Fire tac. 8/Highway (PL 167.9)
154.845 Old Lycoming police/Tactical Security (PL 167.9)
154.115 Duboistown Police/Fire tac.
154.085 Eldred Twp. Highway
151.295 Forestry Frequency (input is 159.360 pl 114.8)
460.200 PA Dept. of Justice Repeater (input is 465.200 PL is 186.2)
162.400 State College/Williamsport National Weather Service
154.965 Jersey Shore Fire tac.
154.710 Nippenose Volunteer Fire Company Fire Tac. 8
154.160 Loyalsock Twp Vol. Fire Tac. (input to repeater is 158.985 (DPL 346 is what they use for tone)
154.250 Old Lycoming Twp. Vol. Fire Co. Tac. 8
154.370 Eldred Twp. Vol. Fire Co Tac. 8
150.775 Susq. Health System EMS office tac repeater also Life Flight uses this as well. (input is 154.190 pl 167.9)
153.905 Jersey Shore EMS
154.145 Jersey Shore EMS
155.430 Jersey Shore Police tac.
155.925 Loyalsock Twp. Highway
153.740 Nisbet Fire Co. tac.
463.500 Penn College All Services (Repeater) (input is 468.500 multiple PLs)
These are the New City of Williamsport Frequencies multiple PL's
155.7675 Jacks Hollow Site Bald Eagle transmitter Williamsport Police Tac 2 along with GPS tracking, also fire, and codes department Tacs. (unknown PLs)
154.3175 Jacks Hollow Site Bald Eagle transmitter Williamsport Police Dispatch (PL 131.8)
154.9275 Shaffers Path Bald Eagle transmitter This is the citywide channel (unknown PL)
155.7825 Shaffers Path Bald Eagle transmitter Highway and EMA will use this as needed below lists the other tac they will use (EMA PL is 123.0 and Highway PL is 179.9)
154.2875 Shaffers Path Bald Eagle transmitter City Bus use this one (GPS tracking) (unknown PL)
153.9725 Jacks Hollow recieve mobile units (input freq for police 2, codes and fire unknown PLs)
151.0925 Jacks Hollow recieve mobile units (input freq for police dispatch) (PL is 131.8)
153.7625 Shaffers Path recieve mobile units (input freq for citywide) (unknown PLs)
153.9875 Shaffers Path recieve mobile units (input freq to Highway and EMA) (EMA PL is 123.0 and Highway is 179.9)
151.0025 Shaffers Path recieve mobile units (input freq for city bus) (unknown PLs)
155.880 Williamsport Highway direct communications (Simplex)
155.835 Williamsport EMA/ Civil Defense along with 155.220 as they have always used and also the countywide channel and 155.7825 as their primary frequency.
155.940 Montgomery Boro
155.100 Old Lycoming Highway
148.150 Civil Air Patrol (input is 143.900 pl is 100.0)
148.125 Cival Air Patrol tac.
154.800 Lycoming County Countywide frequency. All of Lycoming County Public Safety Departments which include police depts, Fire depts, EMA, Forestry, State Police, and whoever else that might have this frequency to communicate with each other (for now at least dunno what will happen when all state agencies go to 800 MHZ). (159.225 repeater input)
154.725 Penn College Police repeater tac. (input freq is 159.450 pl 167.9)
866.0875 "Pennsylvania Government" New radio project frequencies for Lycoming County
866.125 These 800 MHZ frequencies
866.3375 are for
866.4375 PA
866.5125 state
866.5875 government (may be
867.0125 test Freqs unknown) state police
867.0875 highway
867.5125 state wide link
867.5625 to all PA
867.625 government agencies
868.0125 etc.
47.280 Penn Dot
47.300 Penn Dot
150.790 Susq. Health System
155.385 Susq. Health System
155.400 Susq. Health System Williamsport
155.355 Susq. Health System Divine
464.000 Williamsport Hospital new in 2000
464.200 Divine Prov Hospital new in 2000
464.400 Muncy Valley Hospital new in 2000
151.1225 Wmspt. Lycoming county airport fire repeater (156.1125 is the input)
462.475 Billtown Cabs INC. repeater
These school frequencies are currently what is used at the high school (what I have listed).
These same ones could also be used at other Williamsport schools also with muliple Pl's.
153.005 Wmspt. Area School District Repeater (Output) transmit frequency (School Buses/District-Wide Frequency) 146.2 PL for Buses and 169.7 PL for District-Wide
160.185 Wmspt. Area School District Repeater (Input) recieve frequency (School Buses, and District-Wide Frequency) (School Buses/District-Wide Frequency) 146.2 PL for Buses and 169.7 PL for District-Wide
151.520 WASD tac- WAHS Event Staff (Security)
152.285 WASD tac- multiple schools (WAHS Repeater Output PL 179.9, Security, Principals, and Custodial).
152.885 WASD tac- multiple schools, WAHS Security tac
154.490 WASD tac unknown use
159.780 WASD tac multiple schools, WAHS Principal tac
157.545 WASD tac (WAHS Repeater Input to 152.285 frequency the portables talk on to get through the repeater with 3 user group PL's 179.9 is used). mulitple schools and uses not related to the WAHS repeater
157.695 WASD tac unknown use
159.495 WASD tac multiple schools (WAHS Principal to Principal
151.745 Wmspt. Area High School Band Parents, used during Football season mainly at the stands.
462.5625 ch 1 Famliy Radio Service (FRS)
462.5875 ch 2 FRS
462.6125 ch 3 FRS
462.6375 ch 4 FRS
462.6625 ch 5 FRS
462.6875 ch 6 FRS
462.7125 ch 7 FRS
467.5625 ch 8 FRS
467.5875 ch 9 FRS
467.6125 ch 10 FRS
467.6375 ch 11 FRS
467.6625 ch 12 FRS
467.6875 ch 13 FRS
467.7125 ch 14 FRS
Notes/News:
155.310 (county Police), 154.430 (county fire), 154.980 (county EMA), 154.800 (countywide) are part of the Lycoming county NEW Simlcast Repeater System for 2001. Police started using as scheduled on Feb 12th and Fire, and EMA started using as scheduled on March 5th. Countywide has been up since the fall of 2000 and was used to do the testing of every grid square for every 3/4 of a mile in the county. This took a few weeks to do and was completed on Nov 30, 2000. Requirement of at least 95% coverage of the county before they were allowed to operate. They had better than 95% from the map I seen. This requirement was met with a 5 watt Motorola portable. They said there was better than 95% was what it looked like. All 4 frequencies of these simlcast repeaters are located at our 7 county sites which are Trout Run (Shrivers Ridge), Huntersville (Long Ridge), Waterville (Ramsey Mountain), Bald Eagle (Jacks Hollow), Armstrong (Clinton Twp.), English Center site, Brown Twp. site (Black Forest), a recieve site only for Police 1 on Cemetary Hill Rd in (Montgomery) and a back up tower that was put at the (Faxon site) which currently doesnt have any county frequencies. This tower is used for back up in case the primary tower at the Armstrong site goes down. Police 1 is the dispatch frequency used for all police departments in Lycoming county with the exception of state police and Williamsport Police. They both have different systems. Fire 1 is the dispatch frequency for all Fire/EMS in Lycoming County. EMA is used for our local municipality Emergency Management Agency Coordinators. Also you will hear constables, and other county government on there also. Some still use it for direct communications like constables do. They dont use the repeater in other words. Lastly, the countywide frequency. This channel is used for all Lycoming county Public Safety divisions. Some that I know of that currently have access as of May 2001 are all police departments, fire, EMA, Forestry, PA State Police Montoursville. This channel was designated so that basically everyone could talk to everyone. Which seems to work out pretty good and comes in handy. This is a Motorola System.
The City of Williamsport has also updated their radio communications to a "VHF Kenwood System". The old Motorola 800MHZ trunked system started to be in used in 1990. The 800MHZ frequencies for the city of Williamsport were not used effective May 23, 2001 as the entire city made the switch back to VHF by that date. Since around the middle of April 2001 the city of Williamsport has began using the system, beginning with City Bus and Highway at that time. The police were the last group to be on the VHF System since there was more work that needed to be done to get them ready. The police are eventually supposed to have computers in the police cars to use for police work, and there will be some digital messaging on the police frequency as well but not a big deal. The digital messaging is just like someone can pick a particular unit to send a digital message to which are pre-set in the radios. The 5 repeaters consist of the entire city of Williamsport being on it. Some departments will be using the same repeaters and frequencies and just using different PL's.. This system required at least 95% coverage throughout the city of Williamsport which was met with having 98% on portable radio useage throughout the city of Williamsport. Which eventually are to have voting recievers at 2 spots to help cover the center and east a little better around buildings etc. The city is still looking into this but I have heard a the possibilities but since its still in the planning stage I will hold off so false info is not circulated 11/2001. There is also GPS tracking that is available so they know where units are. As far as digital messaging... They can select a units number and send them a short message that is programmed in the radio. Ex. Call Police Headquarters, so not really missing much as far as the digital end of things. Every so often you will hear a data burst, which is the GPS tracking to see where the units are, a similar sound will do it at the end of each transmission of the units, this sends their unit number to county on the board so they know who is calling if someone would be in trouble etc.. This was at the beginning of the transmission but units would cut themselves off by talking before the data burst bursted. Also there is a morse code identification that sends WPSF696 which is the citys callsign for FCC identification every half hour. They seem to be pretty pleased with this system, a few bugs that need to be worked out but this is to be expected. There is no perfect system out there to start with anyway. The main complaint is they seem to have lower audio than when they were on 800MHZ. Reason being the mic's they had on 800 were amplified and the Kenwoods are not. Instead have noise cancelers on them. This means they must speak directly into the mic or they will have low audio. With the Motorola mics they could have a couple feet away and talk. Just something they must get used to....Update... On June 19, 2001 the users on 155.7675 which was (police dispatch) and the users on 154.3175 which was (codes, fire and pd 2) had to trade. This happened because the 155.7675 frequency was causing interferece with a municipal frequency in the eastern end of Lycoming county. The city is using Narrow Band frequencies and the rest of the county is using Wide Band frequencies and was wiping out this frequency in the Eastern part of the county. There is less communication on 155.7675 now that the main user will be the codes dept. So if you want to hear city police dispatch from now on you will have to have 154.3175 in your scanner instead of 155.7675. Also has been talk about getting a few more frequencies for the city. Some departments like city bus have a lot of radio traffic etc. and need more channels.
Williamsport Area High School Repeater... On August 13, 2001 Bill's Electronics put up a repeater at the high school on the roof in "D" Pod Penthouse. In 2000 when all schools recieved radios in Williamsport School District, the high school had some problems talking from one end of the school to the other because of the brick and metal and steel in the building. This made it rough to perform communication with a handheld to talk to another handheld throughout the entire school. So they put up a repeater which covers the school quite well. The repeater transmits on 152.285 and recieves on 157.545. There are 3 PL's on this repeater 173.8 179.9 and 186.2. At this point Im not sure who will use the other 2 Pls cause they only use the 179.9 PL. This is a Kenwood Repeater. Originally when they got the system they put up a repeater on 153.005/160.185 for the buses which is located at the Jacks Hollow County Site above Reach Road, also there is a PL for the District-Wide channel which could be used in the event of an emergency. That is a Kenwood repeater also as well as all the radios. In each school the principal, custodian, and the office have radios. Each school office has a base radio. At the high school the principals, security, head custodian have radios, plus some others. Some schools use the same frequency but have different PL's so each school can't hear everyone else.
NOTE: If there are any other Frequencies you would like to know for Lycoming County, or if you have any questions on anything on here or any of the radio systems that I have written about, then send me an email..
fpcaptain@yahoo.com its very likely I have it!!!Its just too much to type in here.. Or you can go directly to the FCC page and search on your own to see what all is out there at FCC Search a Frequency
Be sure to click on what you want to search for and once you get there click on ULS.