Bountiful PS Scanning Guide
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Bountiful Utah Public Safety
The UCAN public safety system has multiple sites and hundreds of talkgroups. Loading all of them into a scanner and activating them can make scanning difficult, if not impossible. The scanner can get bogged down searching sites or talkgroups not active. Additionally, multiple active talkgroups without prioritization, can be just as confusing and frustrating to follow.
In Davis County there are four dispatch centers/areas:
- Davis County
- Bountiful
- Layton
- Clearfield
To make it easier to follow the activity in the area, I have added the associated talkgroups for these areas into different systems and groups on my Uniden scanners. This makes it possible to turn on and off areas of interest based on actiity level, incident location, etc.
Bountiful Dispatch
Bountiful City has a dispatch center located at Bountiful City Hall. From this center, police officers from the four cities in the south end of Davis County are dispatched:
- Bountiful City
- North Salt Lake City
- West Bountiful City
- Woods Cross City
The main dispatch channel is:
- TG 8544 Bountiful PD 1.
Additionally, fire calls for the South Davis Metro Fire Authority are also dispatched by Bountiful. The SDMFA main dispatch talkgroup is:
- TG 8512 SDMFA Disp 1.
From the south end of Davis County, only one site is necessary for monitoring, the Davis County Simulcast which has an antenna at the Bountiful City Hall and a primary control channel of:
- Control Channel: 852.8375
Davis County Simulcast System
System and Site
Talkgroups
In the RadioReference Database the talkgroups for Bountiful area are listed in multiple subsections of the UCAN Database:
- "Davis County Talkgroups"
- "Davis County - Bountiful Talkgroups"
- "Davis County - Other Cities Talkgroups"
Downloading all of these TG into one system creates the aforementioned confusion of too many TGs active at once on one system. To break it into smaller groups, I pull out just the Bountiful TGs and put them into a system and groups by themselves. This includes the car to car channels of the south cities. (Note: I also add talkgroups for medical helicopter landing zones as well as the North Regional talkgroups.) In my Bountiful System I use 3 groups:
Bountiful PD
System: Bountiful Group #1 Name: Bountfiul PD Talkgroup TGID Bountiful PD 1 8544 (Main Dispatch Channel) Bountiful PD 2 8448 Bount PD 3 Car 8576 Bount SpecOp 11872 WX PD 2 Car 11392 NSL PD 2 Car 10592 W Bount PD 2 Car 11296 W Bount PD 3 11328 North Regional 17728 LZ 1 (Air 1) 17184 LZ 2 (Air 2) 17216
SDMFA
System: Bountiful Group #2 Name: SDMFA Talkgroup TGID SDMFA 1 Disp 8512 SDMFA 2 FG 11552 SDMFA 3 Car 8480 Davis Ops 5 10816 (Medical Calls) Davis Ops 6 10848 (Fire Calls) Davis Ops 7 10880 LakeviewHosp 16544
Bountiful Area PW
System: Bountiful Group #3 Name: Boutiful Area PW Talkgroup TGID WX PW 11424 Bount PW 1 8256 Bountif PW 2 8416 Bount PW Str 8352 NSL PW 10624 WBount PW 11360
(Note: References to systems and groups relate to Uniden scanners with Dynamic Memory Architecture (DMA) other scanners such as GRE or Radio Shack would refer to banks instead.)