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Essex County Police Frequencies

Essex County in Virginia has 0 countywide conventional frequencies and 1 countywide talkgroup in our database. Use the list of 2 cities and communities below for local police departments.

About Essex County Police Frequencies

  • Trunked radio systems that carry law-enforcement traffic here: Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Regional Radio System: 1 talkgroup. A trunking scanner is required, and it must support the system type shown.
  • To follow a trunked system, program a control channel first. For Essex County, start with the Essex/Richmond Simulcast site of Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Regional Radio System. Its control channels: 460.075, 460.175, 460.275 MHz.
  • 1 listed entry is marked encrypted. No scanner can decode encrypted audio.

Essex County trunked talkgroups

Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Regional Radio System

1 encrypted talkgroup (cannot be monitored)
AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Essex County SheriffEssex County Sheriff – Dispatch2101835T

Radio system sites in Essex County

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

Essex/Richmond Simulcast · Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Regional Radio System
RFSS 40 · Site 40 (hex 28) · NAC 00A
Control 460.075, 460.175, 460.275, 460.375, 460.6
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 Essex County

Common questions

Are Essex County police talkgroups encrypted?

1 of the 1 talkgroups listed for Essex County are marked fully or partly encrypted; a scanner cannot decode encrypted audio.