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Franklin County Police Frequencies

Franklin County in North Carolina has 0 countywide conventional frequencies and 13 countywide talkgroups in our database. Use the list of 43 cities and communities below for local police departments.

About Franklin County Police Frequencies

  • Trunked radio systems that carry law-enforcement traffic here: Franklin County 800: 2 talkgroups; Franklin County VHF: 9 talkgroups; North Carolina VIPER: 2 talkgroups. A trunking scanner is required, and it must support the system type shown.
  • To follow a trunked system, program a control channel first. For Franklin County, start with the Franklin Simulcast site of Franklin County 800. Its control channels: 855.3125, 855.8125, 856.2875 MHz.
  • 2 listed entries are marked encrypted. No scanner can decode encrypted audio.

Franklin County trunked talkgroups

Franklin County 800

AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Franklin County SheriffLaw11bD
Franklin County SheriffLaw Tactical110244eD

Franklin County VHF

AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law (Sheriff Dispatch)10165D
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law (Municipal Police Dispatch)10266D
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law Operations10468D
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law Operations10569D
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law Operations1066aD
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Law Operations1076bD
Public Safety PatchesLAW 1 and Law 2 Combined Patch13688D
2 encrypted talkgroups (cannot be monitored)
AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office Narcotics1086cD
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriffs Office SRT1096dD

North Carolina VIPER

AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriff – Dispatch180094659D
Franklin County SheriffFranklin County Sheriff – Tactical Channel180084658D

Radio system sites in Franklin County

Program the control channel first; your scanner finds the voice channels from it.

Franklin Simulcast · Franklin County 800
RFSS 1 · Site 1 (hex 1) · NAC 1A8
Control 855.3125, 855.8125, 856.2875, 856.8125, 857.2875, 857.8125
Franklin Simulcast · Franklin County VHF
RFSS 10 · Site 10 (hex A) · NAC A
Control 151.1525, 151.22, 151.28, 155.355, 155.43
Voice 151.4675
Hosley Forest · North Carolina VIPER
RFSS 1 · Site 24 (hex 18) · NAC 1F2
Control 856.0375, 858.0375
Voice 851.1625, 851.55, 851.8625, 852.3625, 853.7125
Louisburg · North Carolina VIPER
RFSS 1 · Site 29 (hex 1D) · NAC 1F2
Control 853.6375, 853.9375
Voice 852.1375, 852.625, 852.875, 853.1125, 853.3625
Margaret · North Carolina VIPER
RFSS 1 · Site 31 (hex 1F) · NAC 1F2
Control 853.8375, 859.0625
Voice 851.3125, 851.8875, 852.85, 853.075, 853.3
Youngsville · North Carolina VIPER
RFSS 1 · Site 66 (hex 42) · NAC 1F0
Control 774.58125, 774.83125
Voice 769.15625, 769.93125, 770.18125, 772.53125, 772.98125
What do these numbers mean?
Control channel
The frequency your scanner listens to first. It tells the scanner where each voice call is happening, so program it before anything else.
Voice
The other frequencies the site uses for calls. A trunking scanner follows them automatically once it has the control channel.
Site
One tower location of the system. Scanners show the number in decimal or hex, so both are listed.
RFSS (Radio Frequency Sub-System)
A group of sites run by the same controller. Large Project 25 systems can have several.
NAC (Network Access Code)
A hex code the site transmits. Your scanner can use it to ignore other systems on the same frequency.
Talkgroup
A virtual channel on a trunked system, such as one agency’s dispatch. Programming uses the decimal or hex number, depending on your scanner.

Cities & communities in Franklin County

Common questions

Are Franklin County police talkgroups encrypted?

2 of the 13 talkgroups listed for Franklin County are marked fully or partly encrypted; a scanner cannot decode encrypted audio.