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Portsmouth city Police Frequencies

Portsmouth city in Virginia has 0 countywide conventional frequencies and 4 countywide talkgroups in our database. Use the list of 1 city and community below for local police departments.

About Portsmouth city Police Frequencies

  • Trunked radio systems that carry law-enforcement traffic here: Eastern Virginia Regional Communications: 4 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 Portsmouth city, start with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard site of Eastern Virginia Regional Communications. Its control channels: 406.5, 408.525 MHz.

Portsmouth city trunked talkgroups

Eastern Virginia Regional Communications

AgencyDescriptionTalkgroupHexMode
Fort MonroeHampton Police/Park Security41616a290D
Fort MonroeHampton Police/Park Security Patrol/Dispatch41664a2c0D
Defense Supply CenterDefense Supply Center (link)44800af00D
Defense Supply CenterDefense Supply Center (link)44848af30D

Radio system sites in Portsmouth city

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

Norfolk Naval Shipyard · Eastern Virginia Regional Communications
Site 2 (hex 2)
Control 406.5, 408.525
Voice 409.1, 409.425, 409.475
Simulcast · Portsmouth
RFSS 1 · Site 1 (hex 1) · NAC 9C1
Control 855.9375, 856.2125, 858.2125, 859.2125
Voice 856.9625, 857.2125, 858.9625, 859.9625
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 Portsmouth city

Common questions

Are Portsmouth city police talkgroups encrypted?

None of the 4 talkgroups listed for Portsmouth city are marked encrypted.