"Grimm" film crew UHF in the Portland area

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Not sure if anyone is interested but I'd figured since I have it, I'll share it. As the film crew has been shooting the NBC tv show "Grimm" around town, I've snagged a few of the frequencies that they're using. They're running Motorola UHF radios in simplex, provided by Day Wireless.

Ch. 1 - 466.625000
Ch. 2 - 469.600000
Ch. 4 - 469.650000

(the rest are unknown as to what "channel number" they've assigned, I was just able to pick up these first three through conversational context.

456.800000
461.050000
461.056250
461.200000
464.700000
467.712500
509.550000

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I forgot to note, at times when filming a driving scene, they'll attach the character's vehicle to a tow dolly, and have a film truck tow it while the cameras shoot off the back of the truck, straight through the windshield at the actors in the towed vehicles, as well as some extras driving generic "filler" cars in the background. I recently witnessed this in downtown Portland, and they went up,down, and around several downtown streets. When doing this, they utilized a Portland Police traffic bike detail of 2-4 officers escorting the whole group through city streets, and they gave the Portland officers Day Wireless radios set to channel 1 to coordinate the police escort.

However, when filming in the street in a static location (such as outside on NE Prescott/NE Going where character houses are located), they utilized a commercial traffic control/flagging company to close off the streets for filming, and the flaggers had their own FRS/GMRS type radios that they used, and on that particular night it was FRS/GMRS channel 14.
 
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I forgot to note, at times when filming a driving scene, they'll attach the character's vehicle to a tow dolly, and have a film truck tow it while the cameras shoot off the back of the truck, straight through the windshield at the actors in the towed vehicles, as well as some extras driving generic "filler" cars in the background. I recently witnessed this in downtown Portland, and they went up,down, and around several downtown streets. When doing this, they utilized a Portland Police traffic bike detail of 2-4 officers escorting the whole group through city streets

What you describe is exactly what I saw
a couple of years ago on SE McLoughlin Blvd at Bybee.
 
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