Although TV bands are listed, the scanner cannot decode digital TV audio.
servICe tYpes
Service Type
For civilian aircraft and air traffic control operations most typically in the 118-
aircraft
136 MHz and 225-380 MHz bands in AM mode.
Most business related entities not covered by other tags.
Business
Jail/prison operations, corrections activities, federal prisons.
Corrections
Emergency Operation Centers and similar emergency management or
emergency ops
disaster related operations.
Ambulance dispatch, including rescue squads.
eMs dispatch
Ambulance on-scene communications, tactical operations and secondary
eMs-Tac
channels.
Ambulance talk-around, car-to-car and supervisor operations.
eMs-Talk
All federal government operations (except corrections, traditional law
Federal
enforcement patrol and fire/EMS operations).
Fire dispatch, including combined fire/ambulance dispatch.
Fire dispatch
Fireground, tactical and on-scene communications, including combined fire/
Fire-Tac
ambulance operations.
Fire talk-around and car-to-car operations, chiefs, supervisors, etc., including
Fire-Talk
combined fire/ambulance operations.
Any amateur radio assignment
ham
Ambulance-to-Hospital communications and patient reports.
hospital
Interoperability communications, cross-agency communications, mutual aid,
interop
etc.
Law enforcement dispatch.
law dispatch
Law enforcement tactical, SWAT, on-scene, surveillance and specific sub-
law-Tac
agency communications.
Law enforcement talk-around, car-to-car and supervisor operations.
law Talk
Newspapers, television and broadcast radio operations.
Media
Military operations, e.g., range control, air-to-air combat, etc.
Military
Combined law enforcement and fire/ambulance dispatch.
Multi-dispatch
Combined law enforcement and fire/ambulance tactical and on-scene
Multi-Tac
communications.
Combined law enforcement and fire/ambulance tactical talk-around and car-
Multi-Talk
to-car operations.
Public agency non-public safety communications. This includes any non-
Public Works
public safety government services, such as trash, streets, roads, sewer, zoos,
administration, maintenance, animal control, community initiatives, code
compliance, etc.
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