Drive Thru: "Klear Order System" using Kenwood radios Frequency?

[radioman2008]

i have been working to record audio for history as many drive thru systems as possible before they are all gone. (and many other frequencies and systems)
yesterday i came across a Krystal Drive thru on 469.0375 in Gainsville fl. i obtained several minutes of recording examples before i had to continue driving.


today, doing research on that krystal's system i came across the Klear Order System using Kenwood portables
(krystal appears to be using an old Panasonic system)

Audio Enhanced Drive Thru System, 3 unit package, Powered by Kenwood

it would be great if these Klear systems are analog radios.

anyone know what frequency these Klear systems are set up for so i can add them to my scanning list as i travel...




side note, does anyone know where there is still a mcdonalds operating a analog drive thru system in Florida?
from what i have found, 2017 was the last year any of the Mcdonald i know of were analog, as of may 2019, all the ones i have known are offline or zombie systems.

do you know of any uncommon drive thrus in florida? for example there is a single Krispy Kreme donut store running a COM400 457.5125 analog system in st pete, its the only one i know of that still analog and i have a few audio examples of them. it would not supprise me if it is the only one left in florida that is analog.

i am not aware of any Starbucks anywhere still on analog,
the last Popeye's chicken i know of in Tampa went digital a few years ago
getting hard to find KFC's analog, there is one in Celebration outside of Orlando that was analog as of the late summer of last year

 

[IcomIcR20]

Do you by chance publish your recordings anywhere online? That would be neat to listen to.

I have never really listened to drive-thrus, but I'll have to check it out. All I remember was one place (Hardees maybe?) that I accidentally found their frequency... I think it was UHF but this was several years back.

 

[mmckenna]

today, doing research on that krystal's system i came across the Klear Order System using Kenwood portables
(krystal appears to be using an old Panasonic system)

Audio Enhanced Drive Thru System, 3 unit package, Powered by Kenwood

it would be great if these Klear systems are analog radios.

In that link, the portable radios look to be Kenwood TK-3230DX radios.
They are UHF analog, 450-470MHz.

 

[radioman2008]

Do you by chance publish your recordings anywhere online? That would be neat to listen to.

I have never really listened to drive-thrus, but I'll have to check it out. All I remember was one place (Hardees maybe?) that I accidentally found their frequency... I think it was UHF but this was several years back.

i plan to at some point. i would like to someday design a webpage with the face of a scanner and you can select frequency, PL/DPL and mode and search for any audio. kind of like the wayback machine, for scanner audio. i currently have a massive amount of unprocessed uniden 436/536 audio in year categories for future sorting when i have time, going back to my first unit in 2015, but have audio from other recorders going back much further. i take all my units on trips and all are scanning and recording different ranges. the road trip sessions are in categories by Interstate number and state. i just got back from a trip to dayton ohio, recorded some drive thrus there plus had all of the scanners rolling at the fest.

there was a guy who recorded alot of his phone phreaking in the 60s and 70s, now he edits and discusses the recordings and puts them on his webiste www.phonetrips.com im inspired by him in his desire to record everything, the name phone trips comes from his interest in taking trips to other phone network areas to record how those networks sounded.

if you want to listen for drive thrus, the most common freq i still find is 457.5125, its a HME COM400 system that were made from what i can tell from around 1995 to around 2007

 

[slicerwizard]

it would be great if these Klear systems are analog radios.

I'd say they are. Website hasn't been updated since 2012, no mention of digital benefits. "basic principals" (sic) is just added gravy...

 

[slicerwizard]

I have never really listened to drive-thrus

No prob, allow me:

[let's just say she's built like a ...]: "Big Mac, large fries, apple turnover, and a diet Coke"

[East Indian mom with two kids in the back]: "Two big Macs, hold the meat"

...

 

[W4ELL]

Monitoring drive-thrus was one of my favorite things to do. I'll reference one of my first posts on RadioReference:
Picking up the McDonald's drive-thru chick...

 

[NC1]

I have found a Sheetz Convenience store near me that uses 467.850 for employee headset communications. A road crew is using 151.625 for the flag men, and another road crew is using 151.505 for theirs. GMRS is active here ever since the new rules went into effect and FRS can now use 2 watts. There is a summer camp using 462.600, while a golf course has 462.725 as their preferred channel.

One of my scanners is dedicated to scanning the Common and Itinerant Business frequencies whenever I am out and making stops in town. The grocery stores, discount chains, and small businesses are using those frequencies as well. Once I get into the business areas of a town, it is not long before I hear the squelch open and somebody starts talking. To date, I have marked off 42 of the channels in the table as being used - and I am in a very rural area.

Here is the frequency table for those who are unfamiliar with a far overlooked pool of entertainment:
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Itinerant_and_Business