Here in Stillwater, Oklahoma which has a population of
about 45,000, all the public safety services are still
conventional frequencies scattered over the 150-174 and 450-470
bands. Oklahoma has a Motorola trunking system called OKWINS
which is an acronym for Oklahoma Wireless Interoperability
Networking System which is a mixture of P25 and analog talk
groups. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is gradually migrating off
of frequencies in the 30-50 MHZ band to the OKWINS system. Our
local Highway Patrol district just cut over to 800 around August
first so trunking is creeping in to our area but none of the
local agencies are using it except to talk to other agencies.
	What I do so far is to set my BCD996 to scan all talk
groups in the OKWINS system and then lock out the vast majority
of talk groups so that one hardly hears anything. What you get
out of that is to instantly tell when a new organization has
opened up a talk group on the system so you know who is new.
	If it is interesting, I don't lock it out. One day, I
will probably start scanning the OKWINS group for specific
groups rather than picking up the whole thing and locking out
those I don't want to hear.
	We also have a Johnson LTR system for commercial
operations and I programmed that in using information from Radio
Reference. It works fine, but I have my Linux system turn that
system off during normal business hours because the main two
talk groups are a cement company and a paratransit system which
aren't exactly spell-binding to listen to.
	Oklahoma also has an analog trunking system called
Passport which can not be tracked by your average scanner. It is
run by our Department of Transportation. They were thinking
about using it for emergency services, also, but the state has
cut off funding for the system so I expect it to slowly die over
the next few years. Not being able to track it on a scanner is
no great loss since most of the traffic on there is road
maintenance crews doing necessary but not terribly interesting
stuff.

Martin WB5AGZ