PGA Frequencies

The PGA is coming to Oak Hill in Pittsford NY next week. Are there Frequencies for the PGA to listen to?

Thanks

KD52446

try the frequencies under this license. might help.

This is the "PGA Wiki" from Radio Ref:

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/PGA

Also it never hurts to punch in the "Color Dot" and "Star" frequencies into your scanner, because you never know what might turn up in an event!

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Itinerant_and_Business

Good luck!

Oak Hill CC licensed frequencies are: 452.800 457.800 819.2375 and 819.2875. These are simplex low power frequencies and probably you wont hear anything unless very close to the course. I am only about 2 miles away and have never heard anything.

There will be a lot of active broadcast auxillary channels 450-451 and 455-456 while the event is being broadcast but these are also low power and can be heard only within a mile or so of the course.

There will probably be associated public safety activity on the Monroe County law TAC & Towns North channels, Fire Channel 3 and Fire/ EMS Battalion 3 and Inter Battalion Ops channels plus EMS 175 and EMS 280. I heard some testing yesterday on 155.3925 "OPS6" Inter Battalion channel that may be realted to the PGA. They mentioned also using the EMS "Event" frequency but it was not clear if that is 175 or 280.

If you will be at the event, scanners are prohibited:

ITEMS TO LEAVE AT HOME
The items listed below are strictly prohibited on the grounds
of Oak Hill Country Club. All bags will be searched upon
entering the Championship.
• Personal electronics such as, hand-held games, radios,
televisions, iPods, iPads, etc.

Quite a few of my old gang will be there running communications throughout the week. They use this little beauty as their headquarters:

elmer166 said:

The PGA is coming to Oak Hill in Pittsford NY next week. Are there Frequencies for the PGA to listen to?

Thanks

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The PGA has a contract with a radio vendor that has been using TRBO repeaters at most PGA events.
They were in the 451.xxxx MHz range on splinter freqs when we hosted a large PGA event earlier this year.
12 repeaters total for 24 channels and they were not using basic privacy so one could use DSD to monitor everything.

I carried a radio but I also setup DSD for my co-workers and it worked very well. The catering ops also used UHF radios supplied by the radio vendor but they were on a standard analog repeater but still in the same 451.xxxx range.

They send a sniffer radio out well before the event and use that to make sure the temp frequencies they select for an area are not in use locally.
It was basically a scanner hooked to a computer that searched between upper and lower limits and logged signal with signal strength. With that data and actual FCC license data, they determine what frequencies they can use for the low power TRBO repeaters. Seemed crude but it did work well as most of the repeaters used are only used during event week.
The exception is the ops channel used for setup and a vendor channel. In our case, ops and vendors shared the same repeater but different time slots for two channels. The security staff used the vendor channel pre and post event week but had their own channel during event week.
That repeater was setup a month or two before the event and remained for a month after so the equipment vendors and PGA ops staff had communications before and after the event.

If you are interested in listening to the medial coverage at the PGA Championship, be sure and check out the 476.0000 MHz area of the "T" band, as there are quite a few channels in use there for communications by CBS and the international broadcasters at the event.

- Chris

KC2CNY said:

KD52446

try the frequencies under this license. might help.

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Also WPSE606 (PGA TOUR) FCC Callsign Details

nd5y said:

Also WPSE606 (PGA TOUR) FCC Callsign Details

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WPSE606 has a special condition prohibiting operation north of Line A which means it can not legally be used in Rochester.

That restriction also appplies to KD52446 but there is an exception for the 20 "Location 2" frequencies which can be used in a 121KM radius of Buffalo NY which would include Rochester.

Those would be the most likely to be active since they are specifically authorized for use in this area.

Frequencies for today from Oak Hill Country Club:

450.1375
450.2375
450.2750
450.3375
450.3750
450.5375
450.6250
450.7250
450.7750
450.8625 IFB
450.9125 CSQ, RF Camera Data
451.0625 TRBO, PGA
451.0875 TRBO, PGA
451.1125 TRBO, PGA
451.2375 TRBO, PGA
451.2625 D754
451.4500 TRBO, PGA
451.6125 TRBO, PGA
451.9375 TRBO, PGA
452.4250 TRBO, PGA
452.4625 TRBO, PGA
452.6375 TRBO, PGA
452.7875 TRBO, PGA
456.1625 D244
461.3875 D152, Traffic Control
476.2375 D343
476.3000 D051
476.3250 D116, Production
476.4875 D125
476.5500 D115, RF Camera Maintenance
476.5750 D114
476.6125 D074
476.6375 D073
476.6750 D072, CBS Director
476.7375 D065, TBS Production
476.8000 D047, SKY Production
476.8625 D032
476.8875 D031
476.9250 D026
476.9500 D025
476.9875 D023 CBS Production

PGA - Rochester

I was very busy today, but here is some of the freqs:


451.2625 D754
453.5000
461.1375 D152 Security (Primary)
461.4125
462.8375 100.0 Food Service
463.7125 D074 Operations
464.5000 94.8
467.9250 67.0 Runner?
468.3875 67.0
468.7125 Grounds

Online Scanning of PGA

Channel 6 has been added for the PGA Championship till August 12. Standby Fire & EMS units will be dispatched on this channel. Scans Henrietta FD 51 and Brighton FD 52 Only

153.995 PL179.9

Freq is licensed to Brighton FD. It is a quality repeater with satellite receivers for coverage over a diverse suburban terrain.

Thanks Elmer!

Here are some of the RF antennas in the CBS/TNT Broadcasting compound for the PGA Championship.

- Chris