Disney World - Tampa Trip

[blantonl]

Just departed Disney World and arrived in Clearwater Beach on vacation.

Was pleasantly disappointed to see that ALL park operations - security, ops, everything, were using Nextel handsets. All were hooked up to normal Motorola Speakers, or ear pieces. What a bummer that we can't listen to anything related to the parks.

Here in the Tampa Metro area - everything is well "monitorable" which is great news for this area. Got Pinellas County TRS and Clearwater all programmed up quite nicely. I see there are a number of talkgroups that need to be updated on the Pinellas System ;-)

Lindsay

 

[b52hbuff]

Just departed Disney World and arrived in Clearwater Beach on vacation.

Was pleasantly disappointed to see that ALL park operations - security, ops, everything, were using Nextel handsets. All were hooked up to normal Motorola Speakers, or ear pieces. What a bummer that we can't listen to anything related to the parks.

Yuo, the only thing to monitor is the wireless mics and the wireless intercom headsets used in the various shows.

 

[sflmonitor]

The only non-Nextel radios that I saw were Motorola UHF units used by the parade staff. Unfortunately I did not have my scanner and could not verify frequencies. This information was valid as of this past March when I was at the Magic Kingdom.

 

[rdale]

Not all park ops - fire/rescue are monitorable.

 

[JohnnyGalaga]

Here in the Tampa Metro area - everything is well "monitorable" which is great news for this area.

Also, check out these sites to supplement your monitoring:

http://www.pinellascounty.org/911/ActCallsPub.htm
http://www.pinellascounty.org/911/cadpublist.htm
http://www.fhp.state.fl.us/traffic/crs_h501.htm
http://www.pcsoweb.com/CFS/cfsExternalData.htm
http://www.incidentlog.com/lookup.pl?Src=13
http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/pub/default.asp?/Online/Traffic
http://www.tampagov.net/appl_police_calls_for_service/frmCallsList.asp
http://www.tampagov.net/appl_fire_Calls_for_service/frmCallsList.asp
http://www.bayflite.net/xid/index.html
username: tampabaytrs password: bf2
http://www4.passur.com/pie.html

 

[Steveradio]

Hello;

I noticed that as well,
Just about every Disney World Resort - Park was using Nextel as primary communications.

Blizzard Beach
MGM Studios
Magic Kingdom
Epcot
Walt Disney World - Transportation (Buses)
Walt Disney World Monorail System

Many others, While standing in line noticed some employees were monitoring other people so they must be using a "Group" option for some departments. I seen the i503's were being used at our resort along with a palm type unit. Even the transportation - Buses and the Monorail systems were using some type of Group talk.

Steve