St Cloud Local Government - Granite Electronics

System Name: St Cloud Local Government - Granite Electronics
Location: St Cloud, MN
County: Benton
System Type: Motorola Type IIi Hybrid
System Voice: Analog
Last Updated: June 28, 2014, 10:14 pm CDT   [Updated General Trunked System Information]
System Notes
Granite Electronics trunked radio service offers Central Minnesota radio users a wide area, simple to use radio system, for an economical price. Five towers serve Central Minnesota, they are located in St. Cloud, Avon, Monticello, Little Falls, and Mora.

Users Are: St Cloud Police Dept., St. Cloud Fire Dept., St. Cloud Public Utilites and St. Cloud Airport. There maybe several commerical users also.

5-30-05
Benton County, Minnesota

This TRS has become a ghost town, making me assume that it is being eliminated. All government talkgroups have gone silent, in favor of the new "ARMER" digital radio system.

In the last couple months, these are the only frequencies I have observed in use with this radio system: 857.5875, 859.5875, 860.5875, and 862.7375. The data channel continues to change daily, bouncing between 857.5875 and 859.5875.

The only two talkgroups that remain active are . . .
16 ==> rental radios (rarely used, active as of May 2005)
33344 ==> unkown machinery company (active as of May 2005)

All other commercial users appear ot have left this radio system. Phillips Recycling appears to have licensed its own frequency with the FCC. I am at a loss as to what DHL Airborne Express and other commercial users have switched.

10-13-05
This trunk system appears to have gone offline permanently last week.

The system was active with one commercial user remaining on October 3, 2005. By October 8, even the control frequencies were silent.

I still do not know what happened to most commercial users. The government users switched to the ARMER trunk system.

Sites and Frequencies

Red (c) are control channel capable frequencies
Site Name Freqs
001 (1) Site-1 856.4375856.5875856.9875857.4375857.5875c857.9875859.5875c859.9875
  860.4625860.5875862.7375     

Talkgroups

SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
016010AUnid 16Unknown UserBusiness
0336150ACleaning 336Unknown Cleaning CompanyBusiness
01654440a0APhil RecyclePhillips RecyclingBusiness
0166724120AAirBorne ExpAirBorne ExpressBusiness
01680041a0ARefuse 16800Refuse CompanyBusiness
SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
100-120000ASC AP MaintSaint Cloud Airport MaintenancePublic Works
St. Cloud Civic Center
SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
052352cc80ASD Civic CtrSaint Cloud Civic Center MaintenancePublic Works
SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
100-080000ASCFD AdminSaint Cloud FD (Admin)Fire-Talk
100-090000ASCFD Tac 1Saint Cloud FD (Tac 1)Fire-Tac
100-100000ASCPD Tac 2Saint Cloud FD (Tac 2)Fire-Tac
SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
100-010000ASCPD AdminSaint Cloud PD (Admin)Law Talk
100-020000ASCPD Tac 1Saint Cloud PD (Tac 1)Law Tac
100-030000ASCPD Tac 2Saint Cloud PD (Tac 2 and linked to MnSEF)Interop
St. Cloud Public Works
SubfleetDEC HEX Mode Alpha TagDescriptionTag
100-130000ASD Pub WorksSaint Cloud Public WorksPublic Works