1. Public Safety Radio System Law Enforcement Radio Channels

2. Law Enforcement Channels Overview
Base Sites
Six Main Tower Locations
Independence Tower
Aurora Water Tower
Rowley Water Tower
Fairbank Tower
Jesup Water Tower
Court House Tower
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Tower Layout
Map layout showing future towers that will be used, Court House, Hawkeye, Aurora, Rowley, and Hospital. Remote receivers for law will be placed on the Jesup and Fairbank water towers. A paging transmitter may be needed at Fairbank. Will determine after the Hawkeye and Aurora sites are built.
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4. Law Operational Channels
LAWOPS 1
Repeater, Main Dispatch / Operations Channel
LAWOPS 2
Simplex, Secondary Dispatch / Operations Channel
LAW INFO
Simplex, Dispatch Information Channel
VLAW31 (Law Mutual Aid)
Interoperability Channel
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5. Law Operational Channels
CF LEA
Interoperability Channel
JAIL OPS
Simplex, Dispatch Information Channel
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Mobile Only Channels
Law Tactical Channels
LAWTAC A (Analog) or LAWTAC D (Digital)
CAR2CAR
Iowa Channel
VHF “VTAC” Channels
National Interoperability Channels
Surrounding Jurisdictions
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7. Channels With Best Coverage
Repeaters
PAGING
Hear from all tower locations. Talk from all tower locations.
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8. Channels With Best Coverage
Repeaters
LAWOPS 1
FIREOPS 1
EM OPS
ROADS
Simplex
FIREOPS 2
Hear from all tower locations. Talk from just Independence.
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9. Channels With Good Coverage
Repeaters
LAWOPS 2
Hear from just Independence. Talk from just Independence.
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10. Channels With Lowest Coverage
Simplex
LAW INFO
VLAW31
VFIRE21
JAIL OPS
PT TO PT
VCALL10
UCALL40
8CALL90
UBUCLINK
Hear from just Court House. Talk from just Court House.
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Channels in Handhelds
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Channels in Handhelds
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Channels in Mobiles
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Channels in Mobiles
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15. What Channels are Used For?
LAWOPS1
Primary operations channel, Repeater
Used to talk to Dispatch, scene operations
LAWOPS2
Secondary operations channel, Simplex
INFO
Interoperations channel, Simplex
Dispatch monitors, scene operations
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16. What Channels are Used For?
LAWTACA
On scene operations channel, Simplex
Mobile ONLY!
LAWTACD
VLAW31
Interoperations channel, Simplex
Dispatch monitors, used for contact with Law
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17. What Channels are Used For?
IOWA CH
Interoperations channel, Simplex
Mobile ONLY! Others may have. Ex: Tow Trucks
EM OPS
Emergency Management primary operations channel, Repeater
Used to talk to Dispatch, disaster operations
VCALL10
Dispatch monitors, National Calling Channel
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18. What Channels are Used For?
VTAC11
VTAC12
VTAC13
VTAC14
National Interoperability Channels for All Agencies, Simplex
VTAC36
VTAC37
National Interoperability Channels for All Agencies, Repeater
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19. What Channels are Used For?
VFIRE22
VFIRE23
VFIRE24
VFIRE25
VFIRE26
National Interoperability Channels for Fire Agencies ONLY, Simplex
Also have VFIRE21
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Things to Remember
With a Repeater, can see each other and may not be able to talk to each other.
The Repeater has to be able to Hear and Talk to both of you.
When this happens, switch to a simplex channel, FIREOPS2, FIRETAC, VFIRE.
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Things to Remember
With a Repeater, what you say will be head throughout the county.
With a Simplex channel you are heard only as far as the radio carries (Handheld shorter distance than a mobile).
Dispatch can hear the best with the towers and remote receive sites.
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Things to Remember
With a remote receivers, there will be cases that dispatch can hear you but can not talk to you.
Dispatch can hear better then talk due to remote receive sites. This was done to ensure handheld coverage.
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