If you want to listen to London Fire you will NEED a APCO25 AKA P25 digital scanner. If it dont say APCO25/P25 or Digital Trunking Scanner SOMEPLACE on the box or scanner itself.. it most likly wont decode the P25 system
London Police.. No chance of ever listning to them. EVER. They have been encrypted since the mid 90's and never will be unencrypted. No matter what anybody says.. Its just not going to happen and nothing can decode it. Even if you spent the 3000$ on the same radio they have and got it programmed with the same talkgroups your still not going to get them. So now that THAT is out of the way..
Thames EMS. Just need yourself a trunk tracking scanner and your set for them. Always always busy with calls nonstop.
OPP/MTO/MNR you need the P25 scanner again. They use a ontario wide radio system called Fleetnet that is VHF. (The London P25 system is 7/800mhz)
There are a few ways you can cheat and hear OPP/MNR/MTO. They have these things in their cars (and the EMS trucks) called repeaters. They rebrodcast what comes over the radio (P25 or not) repeats what was said in analog mode (so any scanner even a 30 year old one can listen) repeats the transmission in analog mode to the officers/medics portable radio. Point of the repeater is to give range for their portables to talk back to the car/truck.
If you are close to a EMS/OPP/MTO/MNR car and they have their portable radio on you can hear the same stuff you would hear on the P25 system without having a digital scanner. Down side is its close range.. maybe about 1-2km depending on your antenna and such. But if you live near the OPP detachment or a hospital your fine
Same with EMDC the jail you can hear the guards chit chatting
I made a post in another section about what you can and cant listen to around the London, Strathroy and Elgin area
Middlesex
County Fire VHF channels
London Fire (P25 system)
London EMS (trunked system)
OPP from Chatham-kent elgin and middlesex (trunked system and P25)
random cab companies UHF and VHF channels
victoria and university hospital security and cleaning staff UHF channels
White Oaks/Westmount/Masonville/Citi Plaza security and cleaning staff UHF channels
JLC ..errmm...budwiser gardens UHF channels
labatt brewery UHF chennels
kelloggs UHF channels
london airport fire/security UHF channels
ross towing VHF channel
London transit bus channel UHF
and thats just about all
Strathroy
Strathroy/melbourne/mt brydges fire VHF channels
Thats it. Just them
Elgin County
St.Thomas Police/Aylmer Police (they share the same VHF channel)
Elgin County Fire and St.Thomas Fire VHF channels
Format has trunked radio system that you can listen to.. not.. that interesting unless you work there
Things you cant listen to no matter what!
LONDON POLICE
Cant listen to these people with a scanner either because they use a encrypted type radio system scanners cant decode called TRBO (made by motorola)
UWO Police and other people on campus there. Security, SIRT foot patrol and so on
Fanshawe Special Constables and Security
Strathroy Police and Public works
Cox cab in st.thomas
JAAR construction
London transit inspectors
Think iv covered everything. Myself. I hardly even listen to OPP unless something CRAZY is going on. 95% of the time i just listen to london fire/middlesex and strathroy fire. the other 5% is EMS
Was some talk about London fire and their station and truck numbering. Alot of things have changed
Still have 14 stations
Perhaps soon to be 15
Car 1 is no longer at 1 company. They have moved to 2 company but are still called car 1. Drives the dispatches nuts
Car 2 is now at 6 company. They built a little bay for them. Why they didnt leave car 2 AT 2 company and move car 1 to 6 and call it car 6 like they did long time ago? beats me!
Ill list off whos at what station (feel free to correct any errors or blanks iv missed)
Station 1 HQ and dispatch center
Engine 1 (old truck has been replaced with a new one)
Hazmat
ResQ 1 (possibly may have or getting moved to 7 company)
Air/Lite pick up
Fire investigations van
Stores van
Station 2 (Also the mechanic and radio shop)
Engine 2
Truck 2 (just been fixed from a car crash from a month ago. They took engine 5's truck to use untill theirs was fixed)
Marine 2
Service 9
(spare trucks 20,21,22,23 and spare tanker are there
Station 3
Engine 3 (still the old truck waiting to be replaced
Marine 3
Station 4 oldest station in the city
Engine 4 has been replaced with a brand new truck
Station 5
Engine 5
Tanker 5
Station 6
Engine 6 (new truck)
Truck 6
Car 2
Station 7
Engine 7
Station 8
Engine 8 New truck
Station 9
Engine 9
Truck 9
Station 10 Joint EMS station
Engine 10
Station 11
Engine 11
Tanker 11 New tanker
Fire command trailer was there at one pointa
Station 12 Training division and backup dispatch center
Engine 12
Station 13
Engine 13 new truck
Station 14 Joint EMS station
Engine 14 new truck
