MTA Subway Radio Layout

[4-crime]

Does anyone know of a channel/frequency layout of the transit radios?

I have seen the 7 or 8 frequencies in the database, just wondering if there are other frequencies they utilize.

 

[Matted33]

The Icom F70 radios were a mess and were reprogrammed a few times.

What’s actually used as of now is:
A Train to Command
A Train to Train
Yard
B1 Train to Command
B1 Train to Train
B2 Train to Command
B2 Train to Train

Everything is now narrow band. Yard and all Train to Train channels are simplex.

 

[4-crime]

The Icom F70 radios were a mess and were reprogrammed a few times.

What’s actually used as of now is:
A Train to Command
A Train to Train
Yard
B1 Train to Command
B1 Train to Train
B2 Train to Command
B2 Train to Train

Everything is now narrow band. Yard and all Train to Train channels are simplex.

Thanks for the response!

 

[4-crime]

The Icom F70 radios were a mess and were reprogrammed a few times.

What’s actually used as of now is:
A Train to Command
A Train to Train
Yard
B1 Train to Command
B1 Train to Train
B2 Train to Command
B2 Train to Train

Everything is now narrow band. Yard and all Train to Train channels are simplex.

To monitor the train to train communications, are they utilizing the input freqs or the receive freqs?

 

[Matted33]

To monitor the train to train communications, are they utilizing the input freqs or the receive freqs?

To hear what’s going on, listen to:
161.190 - IRT
161.505 - BMT
161.565 - IND
160.845 - certain yards like CIY and 207th Street, other yards will be on their appropriate division train to train channel.

Your only going to hear what your in range of above ground. Even when standing on the street, you may not hear what going on in the hole.

 

[4-crime]

To hear what’s going on, listen to:
161.190 - IRT
161.505 - BMT
161.565 - IND
160.845 - certain yards like CIY and 207th Street, other yards will be on their appropriate division train to train channel.

Your only going to hear what your in range of above ground. Even when standing on the street, you may not hear what going on in the hole.

Thanks. Should I leave it CSQ or enter the PL’s?

 

[Matted33]

It’s been so long since I used a scanner, put in the PL. it can’t hurt.

 

[4-crime]

It’s been so long since I used a scanner, put in the PL. it can’t hurt.

Thanks, I’ll give them a listen. It’s one of the only systems I haven’t really monitored over the years.

 

[Danny37]

To hear what’s going on, listen to:
161.190 - IRT
161.505 - BMT
161.565 - IND
160.845 - certain yards like CIY and 207th Street, other yards will be on their appropriate division train to train channel.

Your only going to hear what your in range of above ground. Even when standing on the street, you may not hear what going on in the hole.

Do the red vests use the same frequencies? the guys that do the maintenance and such. I notice they have a collection of vertex, icom and kenwood radios.