frequency

Hi there, I am new to using and programing portable radios. I am a volunteer firefighter and I have recently purchased a Motorola GP338 Plus portable radio, I will soon be programming it to pick up local fire department frequencies. What I was wondering is if it is possible that I could talk...

when i look at the frequencies for round lake some have a Police: [F-4] under descriptions. does anyone know what these mean

Hi I need help to find the Lake County Sheriff Fequency. I also tried looking on the RR Page but there was to many frequencys and I didn't know which to pick. Thanks

Trying to find four local towing company frequencies. They do police tows for most of the agencies in the far south suburbs of Chicago(i.e. Chicago Heights, Steger, Crete,etc.). The four I' m looking for are TMW in Crete, A-1 and Expert in Chicago Heights, and Coy's in Matteson. I have...

I walked into Radioshack the other day and told the guy i was looking for a scanner to listen to the local fire, ems, police frequencys. I said i was looking at the Uniden Bearcat BC72XLT so i could tune into them. He said that the Uniden Bearcat BC72XLT is not "digital" and cannot get my local...

In my daily monitoring endeavors, I have come up with two questions regarding frequencies/talk groups on the south side of metro Atlanta: 1. Has the Clayton County Fire Department changed radio systems to 800 Mhz. or EDACS? I was going to monitor them the other day and saw that fire department...

Hi all- I am new to scanning and amateur radio in general and I had a couple questions regarding repeaters. I have browsed the FCC records, and determined the frequencies my school uses. I programmed them all into my scanner, and the only one I have heard anything on is: 463.9125 I have...

The wife and I are camping at the Beth Page facility in Urbana this Memorial day. It seems to me a camping facility of this size must have a conventional frequency or two to manage the day to day operations, etc. I could not locate anything in the Middlesex County frequency directory. Anyone...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum so please excuse me for asking a possibly novice question. I reciently pulled out my Radio Shack 800mhz digital scanner that I bought about 5 years ago and tuned it to Selfridge Air National Guard Base's aircraft Approach Freq. I realized that I am only receiving...

I pulled all the FCC records licensed to ODOT last night and compared them against what's listed in the RRDB. They have a few on VHF lowband (east of the Cascades) and on UHF (probably links), along with several AM broadcast highway advisory radio stations. Still, their meat and potatoes is the...

Does anyone have the frequency of the UP between Sacramento/Elk Grove and Lodi/Stockton? I cant seem to narrow it down from the RR listing. I thought it was channel 96 on 161.550 but the traffic doesn't seem correct. I should hear detector 55.5 but I dont. Any ideas?? Tnx Dqve W6CM

First off if this is in the wrong section my apologize it looked like the most fitting! I am looking into getting radios for my company in the near future as we expanded & start providing services in the county, My first thought was to try & use unlicensed radios from like radio shake, how ever...

So i live in the small college town of Pullman Washington just south of Spokane, WA. I was wondering if anyone would be able to add the Pullman Police Department to the scanner database? Currently the campus police are streamed but i know from experience that the city is busier. If anyone can...

Well i am from Odell,IL and we don't have a police department because were such a small town but police come from one of are neighboring towns called Pontiac,IL i was wondering what is the frequency for the police department and maybe someone could broadcast that frequency.

Is there a way to have an app on your iphone that will notify you like when a fire department pager activates with sound following it for a specific department when many departments use the same frequency but different PL codes for activation?

Hello, I have a radio shack pro-164 Scanner. Ive been racking my brains out over figuring out the trunking scan. I tried programming it but do not know what frequencies need to go on or exactly what I am doing as the instructions are really bad. If someone could take me through it step by step...

I was wondering if anyone knows what scanner works best with the RR/sc application. I would like to stream a simple VHF frequency. Any help would be great, Thanks in advance!

Hello Folks, I'm wondering if it is possible that I could register a frequency with Industry Canada, and how much it would cost to go about doing so. (In the 136 - 174 mhz VHF range.) I am not interested in getting an "Amateur Radio" license. I would like to use it for biking and hiking with...

I was looking at a list of VACS in the n2nov site and have notice that some use GMRS frequencies. unknown if its simplex or repeater operation. But isn't this not allowed on GMRS? http://www.n2nov.net/nycvolamb.html

Was wondering how to use the frequency counter on the bcd396xt? I was able to find a review of the bcd396t where they mention when powering on press "hold" , "3" and "0". I did this and the display shows "800MHz+ Band" and it's flickering around 865 Mhz give or take. How do you adjust the...