Major_Infidel
Member
I've had my first ever scanner (Uniden BCD436) for about two days now and am loving it. With the generous help of some members here - and a few highly educational YouTube videos (no doubt created by members here) - I've had some very good initial success manually creating a favorites list to monitor the police and fire frequencies in my local area around Torrance, Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan, etc. I've been doing it manually thus far only because I'm a Mac user so the Sentinel software is largely useless to me.
Like many folks, I'm always curious to know what's going on when I hear a police helicopter hovering around assisting ground units in the immediate vicinity. My question is do these air assets typically communicate with the units below on the local PD's standard tactical frequencies, or are there separate frequencies used by the helicopters to communicate with the on scene commanders on the ground? I've identified a handful of frequencies from the RadioReference database like the LA Sheriff's Aero Bureau Dispatch, LASD Air to Air, LAPD Air Support Div Tac and LAPD Astro channels, but I don't know if monitoring these would actually shed any light on the real time particulars of an incident occurring in my specific area.
Like many folks, I'm always curious to know what's going on when I hear a police helicopter hovering around assisting ground units in the immediate vicinity. My question is do these air assets typically communicate with the units below on the local PD's standard tactical frequencies, or are there separate frequencies used by the helicopters to communicate with the on scene commanders on the ground? I've identified a handful of frequencies from the RadioReference database like the LA Sheriff's Aero Bureau Dispatch, LASD Air to Air, LAPD Air Support Div Tac and LAPD Astro channels, but I don't know if monitoring these would actually shed any light on the real time particulars of an incident occurring in my specific area.