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Originally Posted by gavinminter
Greetings from the Southern Tip of the world, South Africa!!
I'm a COMPLETE novice, so PLEASE bear with me.
Our commercial fishing fleet operates with trunking radio's. The vast majority have Kenwood TK-980/981 radios. ...
I've got absolutely no idea whether they use analogue or digital or what frequencies they use. ...
I'm looking at buying a scanner, so that i can hear all the fishing action, as i live at the waters edge. Most boats will operate between 10 to 20miles or so from land....
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Hi and welcome to RR. Had a friend in SA many years ago.
Those Kenwoods probably use LTR type trunking. It's rather difficult to figure out the correct channels to put the frequencies into, but it can be done. Search around this group.
The freqs. are common U.S. trunking freqs. so any triple trunking scanner will work. The triple denotes Motorola, EDACS & LTR type systems.
Kenwood TK-980/981
Type 1 (RX) 851~870 MHz 935 ~ 941 MHz
Type 2 (TX) 806 ~ 825 MHz, 896 ~ 902 MHz,
Type 3 (Talk Around) 851 ~ 870 MHz 935 ~ 941 MHz
The Type 1 freqs. are the ones you will need to monitor. Please ask someone in the LTR Forum how those systems work.
LTR Trunking - The RadioReference.com Forums
This is a rather unusual situation for a trunking system. The repeater (main radio antenna) is probably on a high mountain as near to the ocean as possible and they may use a directional antenna since the ships are out at sea.
For a scanner see if there is a GRE or a Uniden dealer in SA.
Good luck.