Most agencies in Oxford County Maine are dispatched by the "Oxford RCC" (Oxford Radio Communications Center). Oxford RCC is operated by the Oxford County Sheriffs Department (who has their own website).
Police - 155.07 - Fire and Ambulance - 154.07
Heard 12 September 2000 - heard in the Boston area on 154.07 via skip/lift/foggy weather - beee bop (pager tone set - about 1 second per tone) - "Oxford RCC to Pace Base, respond a unit to the Buckfield Road in ?South Paris, Smith Residence, male 66, OD (drug overdose)" - ?repeated on 2nd base station - "654, 10-3" (10-3 = go ahead with your message) - "it is the first trailer by the 45MPH sign, brown in color"
30 Sept 00 - 154.07 - beeee boppp - Oxford to Pace Base, Oxford to Pace Base, respond ALS backup for TriTown (Ambulance) on the Gore Road in Locke Mills, an asthma patient"
12 September 2000 - 154.07 - Stoneham Rescue Squad toned - "bee bop" "Stoneham Rescue, need a unit to go to 21? Mill Hall Road in Waterford, male 81 fell, time of your tone, 0-7-1-3" - "unit calling Oxford?" - (not a precise transcription of the radio traffic)
October 2000 - 155.07 - County 13, Bethel 4, Fryeburg 7, PD 26, County 7, Paris 4, County 19, County 3, Norway 5, Norway 16, Paris 7, Bethel 2 - typical radio traffic - "Paris 7" - "10-3 22-16" - "Oxford, Paris 7" - "10-23 on Maine 345RTX comes back on a blue Volvo registered to Tom Berry of Rumford" - "Norway 5" - "10-4 Norway 5, KXB 4-8-3" - "Bethel 2, 10-21 Dispatch please" - Channel 1 for the Fryeburg unit is a repeater with an output on 155.07 - RCC can access that repeater and can also access a different base - RCC probably has access to at least 2 high altitude transmit sites in Oxford County - ?Speckled Mtn + ?Spruce Mtn
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File created 12 Sept 00 by Peter Szerlag
Updated - 2Oct00