What to listen to?

[W2SJW]

Guys,

I'm going to be in your beautiful state in June for a 7-day Princess cruise from Whittier to Vancouver.

#1 - Any specific sites of the ALMR I should program (making stops at Skagway, Juneau, & Ketchikan).

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#2 - I'm going to have my new 396XT by then end of March. Is the ALMR system a P25 system that transmits the band plan over the CC like most of them do here out east, or am I going to have to manually enter the bandplan?

Anything else you guys could suggest that's worth listening to would be great!

[kikito]

Originally Posted by W2SJW

#1 - Any specific sites of the ALMR I should program (making stops at Skagway, Juneau, & Ketchikan).

Your best bet is to do a search of the 154.65 to 156.24 range and program what you find because there's no telling exactly which sites you'll be able to receive from where you'll be.

#2 - I'm going to have my new 396XT by then end of March. Is the ALMR system a P25 system that transmits the band plan over the CC like most of them do here out east, or am I going to have to manually enter the bandplan?

Yes, with the latest scanners you just program the control channel and go!

[W2SJW]

Thanks for the fast reply!

[zerg901]

ftp://www.city.ketchikan.ak.us/pub/agenda/080320B.PDF

There are a bunch of Ketchikan freqs at the end of this 2008 document