Black Hawk Casino Bus Freqs

[mdbliss]

I often travel to Central City and Black Hawk for work and was wondering if anybody had the Coach USA(Ace Express) frequencies. The traffic is really boring on the frequencies but would have come in handy today to see what routes they were taking to avoid the traffic.

[NW0U]

I nobody answers specifically- there are quite a few talkgroups of what sounds like buses on the LTR trunked business systems. I cracked several systems last year and they were posted to the database but I didn't work them down to the level of identifying which company - I just identified that it was busses and moved on.

You might have to use Close Call or Signal Stalker on your own scanner to figure it out since it may be that the LTR signals won't work in the canyons very well so the buses might not be on those systems.

Good luck!
Be sure to submit what you find to the database for the next guy.

Originally Posted by mdbliss

I often travel to Central City and Black Hawk for work and was wondering if anybody had the Coach USA(Ace Express) frequencies. The traffic is really boring on the frequencies but would have come in handy today to see what routes they were taking to avoid the traffic.

[mdbliss]

Thanks and I will post my results

[NW0U]

After having been sent home from work on Thursday in the middle of the heaviest snowfall and ugliest traffic- reminds me that you should look into monitoring the CSP and local fire depts along your routes. My scanner and my listening to it kept me from being immobilized on I-25 because I knew to not go there.

CSP are the ones being paged out to crashes and reporting on road conditions and the state of mayhem. Local FDs respond to crashes. Local county deputies also report road conditions and crashes to their dispatchers. And the freq/talkgroup info is readily available on this website.

You could use this info until you figure out how to listen to the busses and then whether they reveal the info you need in enough time for you to benefit.

[mdbliss]

Luckily I did have the scanner and was listening to CSP but I missed the closure to eastbound I-70 at ward and that added about an hour to my travels to get back north since I was diverted WB. If I had the bus frequencies I would have known and got off earlier to go north, just one more source of information.