Worcester TRS Information
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Worcester Trunked Radio System
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EDACS-WIDE System Frequencies
- Must be programmed in exact channel order (LCN) as seen below. NOTE: Radio Shack scanners generally start with Channel x00 (ie: 000, 100, 200, etc.) as the first channel of a bank. DO NOT USE THIS AS LCN-1. Instead, start with x01 (ie: 001, 101, 201, etc).
| Frequency | LCN |
| 856.5125 | 1 |
| 854.1375 | 2 |
| 854.8875 | 3 |
| 854.4625 | 4 |
| 854.2125 | 5 |
| 855.4875 | 6 |
| 855.7125 | 7 |
| 855.7375 | 8 |
| 855.9625 | 9 |
| 855.9875 | 10 |
Fire Department Talkgroups
| DEC | AFS | Description | Comments |
| 549 | 04-045 | F1 Fire Admin | Typically used for companies on-the-air, not responding to incidents |
| 545 | 04-041 | F2 Fire Ops A | North End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 3 assigned to the call |
| 546 | 04-042 | F3 Fire Ops B | South End Multi Company Responses Typically used if Car 4 assigned to the call |
| 547 | 04-043 | F4 Fire Ops C | Single Company Response (ie: Medical, MVA, etc) Also linked to 460.050 (DPL 051) |
| 548 | 04-044 | F5 Fire Dispatch | Used to dispatch all calls: Single tone - One Company or Message Two tones - Multi Companies Three tones - Reported Building Fires or SCUBA alerts |
| 577 | 04-081 | F6 Fire Prevention | Fire Code Enforcement |
| 578 | 04-082 | F7 FD Staff | Used mostly by administration and chiefs |
| 583 | 04-087 | TAC-10 | Overflow Fireground channel |
| 580 | 04-084 | TAC-11 | Training/Overflow Fireground channel |
| 582 | 04-086 | TAC-12 | Overflow Fireground channel |
| 587 | 04-093 | Mid-State Fire Simulcast | Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.70 |
| 588 | 04-094 | South County Fire Simulcast | Used for Inter-op purposes on 33.62 |
The two fire simulcasts are not always active. The South County simulcast is active much more often. Fire alarm has the ability to patch these talkgroups to fireground channels.
The Fire Department also has access to 859.4875 131.8. This frequency is F16 in most radios and is a conventional talkaround frequency.
Fire Department Responses
Single company responses include: Medical Assists, Private Residential Alarms, Local Alarms, Brush Fires, Motor Vehicle accidents, Vehicle Fires, Spills, etc.
Multi Company Responses include:
- One Engine, One Ladder, the Rescue, and a district chief for: Smell of Natural Gas, Hazmat Situation, Elevator Problems, Accidents with Entrapment, etc
- Two Engines, One Ladder, and the District Chief for: Private Commercial Alarms, Boiler Problems, Electrical Problems, Stove Fires, other appliance fires (driers, etc), some Master Boxes, etc.
- Two Engines, One Ladder, rescue and the District chief response on most master boxes.
- Two Engines for: Medical call or Motor Vehicle accident on I290. Two engines sent in order to have one come each direction in case the location was given incorrectly.
Reported building fires get a response of Four Engines, Two Ladders, the Rescue, a district Chief, and an additional Ladder for RIT.
Subsequent Alarms:
2nd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Special Ops District Chief, Safety Officer, District Chief
3rd Alarm: 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, Field Communications, Notification of Department Chief and Deputy Chief
4th Alarm: 2 Engines
5th Alarm: 2 Engines
6th Alarm: 2 Engines
Common mutual aid is an Engine and Tower from Auburn, Tower from Holden, Engine from Millbury, Engine from Shrewsbury, and an Engine from Paxton. This mutual aid does not normally occur until at least a fourth alarm. City companies are moved up before mutual aid is called in.
Fire Department Station Alert Talkgroups
The only activity on these TGs is keyups to activate paging and Klaxon systems in the fire houses. There is no voice on these channels. They are only included in this page for completeness.
| DEC | AFS | Description |
| 738 | 05-122 | South Division |
| 739 | 05-123 | Headquarters |
| 740 | 05-124 | Park Ave |
| 741 | 05-125 | Webster Square |
| 742 | 05-126 | Brown Square |
| 743 | 05-127 | Southeast Division |
| 744 | 05-130 | Burncoat |
| 745 | 05-131 | Tatnuck |
| 747 | 05-133 | Greendale |
| 748 | 05-134 | Providence-The Rock |
| 751 | 05-137 | McKeon Rd |
| 736 | 05-120 | All Stations Alert |
Police Department Talkgroups
| DEC | AFS | Description | Comments |
| 1057 | 08-041 | F1 East Dispatch | Routes 1-10 |
| 1058 | 08-042 | F2 West Dispatch | Routes 11-20 |
| 1089 | 08-081 | F3 CJIS | Record Checks |
| 1121 | 08-121 | F5 Talkaround | |
| 1059 | 08-043 | F6 TAC-1 | |
| 1060 | 08-044 | TRAFFIC-4 | Traffic Enforcement |
| 1061 | 08-045 | F11 Details | |
| 581 | 04-085 | F16 Talkaround | |
| 1094 | 08-086 | Anti-Violence Street Crimes Unit | |
| 1125 | 08-125 | BCI/Detectives | |
| 1132 | 08-134 | F7 TAC-2 | |
| 1133 | 08-135 | GANGS-12 | Gang Units |
| 1158 | 09-006 | Auto Theft | |
| 1159 | 09-007 | Tie to State Police Holden |
Citywide Talkgroups
| DEC | AFS | Description |
| 1123 | 08-123 | Fire/EMS/PD Interagency |
| 1665 | 13-001 | Event A |
| 1666 | 13-002 | Event B |
| 1667 | 13-003 | Event C |
| 1668 | 13-004 | 911 Emergency |
The Interagency talkgroup is primarily used for communication between FD and EMS or PD and EMS.
The events channels are in every PD and FD radio. (maybe more?)
The 911 Emergency talkgroup is in every city radio, as well as WRTA busses. It is monitored by a Fire Department dispatcher. It usually is used by DPW workers or WRTA drivers to report MVAs or medical emergencies. During a recent disaster drill it was used for communication between the dispatcher and incident commander.
Airport Talkgroups
Airport vehicles also have access to 120.500 ORH Tower to talk to the tower while driving in/on the runway areas.
| DEC | AFS | Description |
| 1702 | 13-046 | Airport Police/ARFF (Fire) |
| 1579 | 12-053 | Airport Emergency/Common |
| 1640 | 12-130 | Airport Administration |
Worcester EMS
| DEC | AFS | Description |
| 586 | 04-092 | EMS MED-9 - Primary Ops (Cross-Linked to 462.950/186.2) |
| 556 | 04-054 | WEMS 2 - Incident Overflow |
| 557 | 04-055 | WEMS 3 - Incident Overflow |
| 584 | 04-090 | CMED, carries the same traffic you would hear on the UHF CMED frequencies |
Ambulance service in the City of Worcester is provided by Worcester EMS aka UMass EMS. They operate on 462.950 186.2 with Paramedics 1 through 5 providing primary coverage to the city. P1, P2, P3, P6 (Shrewsbury 911 truck) are 24 hours per day, P4 is 20 hours per day, and P5 is 10 hours per day. Backup coverage is provided by various private companies.
On 20 November 2009, Worcester EMS transitioned to the City's EDACS system, using the existing "EMS MED-9" cross-linked talkgroup as the primary channel, replacing their Motorola UHF mobiles and portables with M/A-COM hardware. Other services can continue to communicate with Worcester EMS via the UHF MED-9 frequency.
Other Non-Public Safety Talkgroups
Note there are numerous Talk Groups listed on other sites, most are inactive. It would take up too much space to list them all on this page. A lot of these TGs use informal communications (e.g. "Hey Bob!") and at the most refer to a "base" as dispatch (e.g. "Water Base"). Some of these TGs. have very brief communications and extreme bouts of inactivity. This is mainly due to the nature of their jobs not needing radio communications as much as public safety agencies, and the proliferation of cell phones for use by smaller city agencies.
| DEC | AFS | Description |
| 1549 | 12-015 | Testing on F-5 |
| 1550 | 12-016 | WORAD Radio Techs |
| 1569 | 12-041 | DPW Water Dept. |
| 1570 | 12-042 | DPW Water Filtration (Sewer Treatment Plant) |
| 1571 | 12-043 | DPW Sewer Dept. |
| 1573 | 12-045 | DPW Street Dept. |
| 1574 | 12-046 | DPW Engineering |
| 1575 | 12-047 | Code Enforcement ('OLD' TG) |
| 1577 | 12-051 | DPW Cemeteries |
| 1578 | 12-052 | DPW Forestry (Tree Removal) |
| 1580 | 12-054 | Labeled "CC OPS" in Scanner, Some use maybe Buildings? |
| 1581 | 12-055 | DPW Sanitation Dept. (Trash Trucks) ('New' TG) |
| 1582 | 12-056 | DPW Snow Emergency |
| 1601 | 12-081 | DPW Garage (Central Garage) |
| 1603 | 12-083 | DPW Traffic Signals/Signs |
| 1604 | 12-084 | DPW Parking Control Officers/Parking Meter Maint. ('New' TG) |
| 1605 | 12-085 | School Transportation A (Special Needs buses) |
| 1636 | 12-124 | Code Enforcement ('New' TG) |
| 1644 | 12-134 | DPW Administration |
| 1699 | 13-043 | DPW Park Maintenance |
| 1703 | 13-047 | Maint. A (Maintaining Airport) |
Worcester TRS Information information is current, up to date and confirmed by:
