Drive Thru resteraunts

Anybody know what frequencys the drivethru places like mcdonalds and burger king run on.. I live about 500 yards from a mickey d's and just looking for something to keep me busy.

Try these

Hi ,

I am in california, but found that 457.5125 is common for a lot of fast food restuarants. Try searching 30-35 MHz and 457 - 458 MHz and let us know what turns up. Keep in mind the signal usually does not go beyond a few hundred feet by design.

mike

EDIT: Hey, since you have a scanner with Close call, it would probably be worth a try.

Fast Food

Tfitzmaurice89 said:

Anybody know what frequencys the drivethru places like mcdonalds and burger king run on.. I live about 500 yards from a mickey d's and just looking for something to keep me busy.

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If you do a search with google search engine all these frequencies will come up.
Steve

I think many of those headsets are in the 900 mhz range. I am sure they are pretty low power so the close call might not work from 500 yards. If you really want to know the frequency, just go make an order at the drive-thru with the close call on.

I've been within 10 ft of those headsets at taco bell w/ cc and nothing

I too haven't really had much success with close call at drive thrus. I know there was a site i saw a while back with a big list of them, some of them seem to work. They're usually easy to find by scanning because there will be an open carrier on some. Just need to know the right range to search.

try high band 154.625 comes to mind

Many of the 900 MHz units are Wide Band FM, so most scanners can't pick them up easily. You will need a scanner, such as the BC330 and BC396, which can be set to receive WFM signals.

Drive thrus

I am about 1/4 mile or so from a McDonald's (and a couple of other drive-thrus). I've found them talking on GMRS frequencies. Try 462 or 467 MHz.

DoctorDiode said:

try high band 154.625 comes to mind

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There are also several others in that VHF itenerant range that fast food joints still use, such as 154.6, 154.57, etc.

http://home.houston.rr.com/freqzone/freqs/fastfood.html
http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/scanning_info/fastfood.html

Plenty of others out there, just [google, yahoo, altavista, iwon, hotsheet, aol etc etc etc]
Fast Food Frequencies. The Internet is your friend. Search it.

Tfitzmaurice89 said:

Anybody know what frequencys the drivethru places like mcdonalds and burger king run on.. I live about 500 yards from a mickey d's and just looking for something to keep me busy.

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Check the Wiki, too. Although not labeled, the Color Dot/Star Itinerant Frequencies section has most of the known fast food universe freqs.

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Itinerant_and_Business
Color Dot/Star Itinerant Frequencies

Back in the mid 90's a particular Mc Donald's in Dallas kept getting harassed over their radio ordering system. They complained to the Dallas FCC office so the FCC sent an enforcement agent to monitor their system. They caught the guy, turned out he had a van full of radios and scanners and worked as a news "stringer" for a local network TV station. I recall he lost his radios and was fined, plus he was a news story on the local media stations.

A few years ago, at least two of our local McDonalds were operating in the 30 MHz band. I personally picked each of them at least 2 miles away in my car.

I knew the previous owner of several local McDonalds. I mentioned that you could monitor the drive-thru lane on a scanner. He said he knew that and he occasionally parked neaby and listened to check up on his employees courtesy when talking to customers.

Randy

try the 902-906mhz, 920-922mhz,457.5125,469.0125,33.40,

This is what they are licensed for in OH.
33.4
35.02
154.54
457.5125
457.5375
457.5625
457.5875
457.6125
468.4875
468.7625
468.8375
469.1375
469.4625
469.6375
469.6625
469.8875

In Rochester NY , I was hearing them on 904.3875.

Search 902 to 905 as was suggested previously.

Most common in Pennsylvania

035.0200 PL82.5 Drive - Thru/Clerk
154.6000 PL88.5 Clerk - Headsets

457.5125 PL71.9 Drive - Thru/ Clerk
468.4875 PL88.5 Clerk

Most common PL's used as well across PA some use the 900Mhz band search the 920 to 922Mhz range for exact finds.

Steve

A list from my friend Bob E.

Fast Food Frequency Pairs for the United States

The frequency pairs marked with an "*" are either odd or missing.

Headset/Speaker frequency pairing for VHF-low / VHF-high band:

Speaker Headset

30.840 - 154.570 Very common frequency pair
31.000 - 170.305
31.240 - 151.745
31.325 - 151.865 *
31.400 - 154.515 *
33.140 - 151.895
33.140 - 170.305 *
33.160 - 154.515 Very common frequency pair
33.400 - 154.540 Very common frequency pair
33.400 - 154.570 *
35.020 - 154.490 *
35.020 - 151.895 *
35.020 - 154.600 Very common frequency pair
35.120 - 151.775
35.880 - 151.835
35.960 - 151.805

Headset/Speaker frequency pairing for VHF-high band:

Speaker Headset

151.715 - 169.445
151.775 - 171.905
154.570 - 170.245
154.600 - 171.105
154.600 - 170.245 *


Headset/Speaker frequency pairing for UHF band:

Speaker Headset

457.5125 - 467.7375
457.5250 - 467.7500
457.5375 - 467.7625
457.5500 - 467.7750 Very common frequency pair
457.5625 - 467.7875
457.5750 - 467.8000 Very common frequency pair
457.5875 - 467.8125
457.6000 - 467.8250
457.6125 - 467.8375

457.5250 - 467.8250 *
457.6000 - 467.7500 *

457.5125 - 468.4875 Very common frequency pair
457.5375 - 468.3875
457.5626 - 468.8375 Very common frequency pair
457.6125 - 469.8875 Very common frequency pair
467.8125 - xxx.xxxx

462.7625 - 467.8875

460.8875 - 465.8875
461.0375 - 466.0375
461.0875 - 466.0875
461.1125 - 466.1125
461.2875 - 466.2875
461.5375 - 462.1625 *
461.5375 - 466.5375
462.1625 - 467.1625
464.9625 - 469.9625
464.9875 - 469.9875

469.0125 - 464.0125 Very common frequency pair
469.0375 - 464.0375
469.0625 - 464.0625
469.0875 - 464.0875
469.1125 - 464.1125
469.1375 - 464.1375
469.1625 - 464.1625
469.1875 - 464.1875
469.2125 - 464.2125
469.2375 - 464.2375
469.2625 - 464.2625
469.2875 - 464.2875
469.3125 - 464.3125
469.3375 - 464.3375
469.3625 - 464.3625
469.3875 - 464.3875

Headset/Speaker frequency pairing for ISM band Wide FM (3M Headsets):

Speaker Headset

920.0125 - 903.0125
920.0250 - 903.0250
. .
. .
921.0000 - 904.0000
. .
. .
921.9750 - 904.9750
921.9875 - 904.9875

Headset/Speaker frequency pairing for ISM band (HM Electronics):

Speaker Headset

902.0125 - 926.0125
902.0250 - 926.0250
. .
. .
903.0000 - 927.0000
. .
. .
903.9750 - 927.9750
903.9875 - 927.9875

Now that's some damned fine and very useful info there, Mick. Thanks for sharing... when I get my 246T I'll have to devote some space to some of that stuff just on the off chance I might be interested in knowing what the hottie in the blue Geo is ordering for lunch at Taco Bell. hehehe