Over the last week many of you have probably noticed a lot of green updates in the state of Florida. What I have been doing is visually checking counties to see what is contained in each one. This way I learn every part of the state and how it is laid out. Besides working submissions I have been going from county to county looking things over and updating names, geotags, service tags and whatever might not look right. Don’t worry I’m not overhauling everything, most of it is just cosmetics and most of it is unnoticeable to the average user.
What I would like help in is making Florida’s database more up to date. This is where you come in, the area experts. I live in N.W. Florida so if I can hear it in my area, I can ID it and submit it. I don’t know what is good, outdated or incorrect in your areas. If everyone would look over there areas and see what is still valid or outdated, then please submit the information. I know I find something new or something has changed in my area monthly.
When you submit your information, please try to be as detailed as possible. If it is new information, try and submit it in the format that you see in the database with as much information as possible like user, tone, FCC info, description; “Sheriff Ch-1 Dispatch” service tag, etc or even a link. By providing detailed information means the submission gets processed a lot quicker because the admins are not searching where you got the info from. It’s hard to process a submission if it only contains a frequency and says Sheriff. Let us know what is used for and if it has a channel number or description assigned. Nothing worse than seeing 4 or 5 Police, Fire or Sherriff channels listed with no breakdown on what each is used for.
If you see frequencies that are no longer used then let us know that also. We can tag them as depreciated or delete them if there that old. Good examples would be, FCC search shows that it has expired (provided link if possible) or they moved over to a trunk system in the area and conventional is no loger used.
Still a lot of unknown frequencies out there to find and document. This is true with state agencies and new systems that are coming online. State agencies are pretty easy to locate if you search the internet and FCC for the information. A couple of good ones to hunt down are the department of corrections, juvenile detention facilities, Medevac and state parks. You would be surprised how many facilities they have scattered throughout the state and they use conventional frequencies. The part I enjoy about my scanner is finding and ID’ing new frequencies. If you find one, please make sure you can actually monitor it or you know for a fact it's active. Some of the States Communication Plans are way outdated.
I’m sure I could go on but you get the point. Seeing that Florida is one of the largest states and visited by many scanner hobbyists all year long, it would be great for everyone to have accurate information to reference when needed.
Again, we rely on you and the information is only as accurate as you provided.
Thanks for your time and help.
Dan
What I would like help in is making Florida’s database more up to date. This is where you come in, the area experts. I live in N.W. Florida so if I can hear it in my area, I can ID it and submit it. I don’t know what is good, outdated or incorrect in your areas. If everyone would look over there areas and see what is still valid or outdated, then please submit the information. I know I find something new or something has changed in my area monthly.
When you submit your information, please try to be as detailed as possible. If it is new information, try and submit it in the format that you see in the database with as much information as possible like user, tone, FCC info, description; “Sheriff Ch-1 Dispatch” service tag, etc or even a link. By providing detailed information means the submission gets processed a lot quicker because the admins are not searching where you got the info from. It’s hard to process a submission if it only contains a frequency and says Sheriff. Let us know what is used for and if it has a channel number or description assigned. Nothing worse than seeing 4 or 5 Police, Fire or Sherriff channels listed with no breakdown on what each is used for.
If you see frequencies that are no longer used then let us know that also. We can tag them as depreciated or delete them if there that old. Good examples would be, FCC search shows that it has expired (provided link if possible) or they moved over to a trunk system in the area and conventional is no loger used.
Still a lot of unknown frequencies out there to find and document. This is true with state agencies and new systems that are coming online. State agencies are pretty easy to locate if you search the internet and FCC for the information. A couple of good ones to hunt down are the department of corrections, juvenile detention facilities, Medevac and state parks. You would be surprised how many facilities they have scattered throughout the state and they use conventional frequencies. The part I enjoy about my scanner is finding and ID’ing new frequencies. If you find one, please make sure you can actually monitor it or you know for a fact it's active. Some of the States Communication Plans are way outdated.
I’m sure I could go on but you get the point. Seeing that Florida is one of the largest states and visited by many scanner hobbyists all year long, it would be great for everyone to have accurate information to reference when needed.
Again, we rely on you and the information is only as accurate as you provided.
Thanks for your time and help.
Dan
