Hi. I am the feed provider for Del Norte County.. i am not sure what frequency i am missing...
The scanner i finally settled on, i found only 1 other online and he's not selling. No other scanner seems to pick up far enough away as well as as providing a clean signal. What i am working with now is a Regency Model #ACT-E-106.
My server is a minimal OneLink system from an old Slot Machine from a local casino, running headless with antiX linux with b.u.t.t. as the broadcast streamer. yes, sounds strange, but i make use of week hardware. Everything i have was donated for this project and must run on solar power in case power goes out (with 2 deep cycle batteries to keep the buffer).
I am missing a single crystal for the scanner, for CHP's mobile traffic. I don't know what frequency that is.. but if someone knows what it is... and wants to donate it.. i'll install it and get that going.
I am a very poor person lol... been working from home trying to help the community taking up technical slack for technical slackers.
Howdy, "dncounty." I'm listening to your feed right now, and am hearing DN Sheriff (and Crescent City PD?)
loud and clear. I also just heard over your feed CHP put out a BOLO for a DUI driver on Lake Earl Drive, I think she said.
As far as CHP goes, I wouldn't bother trying to pick up the CHP mobiles right now (their mobile frequency is 42.24). They're VERY hard to pick up unless you have a sensitive scanner, a good low-band antenna, and a good, high elevation location. And lots of good luck. It's been one of the biggest irritations for scanner listeners for many, many years not being able to pick up the CHP cars.
Good news, though, since I first mentioned it up in post #3, is that CHP has now started testing their new frequency pair that will be used for the Arcata (16), Crescent City (95), and Garberville (105) offices, and the plan is that the mobiles should generally be repeated through the dispatcher-side frequency, which will be 45.22. Right now I'm only hearing the new frequency off Horse Mountain here in Humboldt County, but I imagine they'll be rolling it out area wide when they get the bugs out of it. I'll be sure to pass the word along. And I just MIGHT have a crystal for it, not sure. 45.22 is the same frequency that Grass Valley PD used when I was a dispatcher there in the early 80s, and I'm sure I bought a couple of them. If I can find them - 30 years later. Don't hold your breath on that, though.
You're using a Regency E-106, eh? That's a real classic, from the early 70s. When my dad retired about 1974 I bought him an E-106 because he had been a "police call" fan since I was a kid growing up in L.A.in the 1950s.
I had an ACT-
R-106 mobile scanner until just a couple years ago when I gave it to my nephew.
That's one of the benefits of living here on the north coast - all the "good" radio stuff is still on bands and frequencies that have been in use for a half century, so even the oldie-but-goodie scanners work for us as well as they ever did.
By the way, can you tell me the unit numbering systems for Del Norte Sheriff vs CCPD? I'm hearing "4-Paul-" units and some other numbers but haven't listened enough to figure out who is the city police and who are the sheriff unit numbers. When I first moved over here to the coast in 1991 CCPD did their own dispatching on their own frequency, but I believe they've bounced back and forth once or twice, and that DNSO now dispatches them? Thanks.