Monitor USPS?

[ecps92]

Is there a ways to find out if its a talk group? Would that be found in a Search?

As Dave indicated, first you need to SEARCH and see what is around you (what you can actually hear)
some of those Sorting Facility trunks are designed to ONLY cover the Bldg/Property, so you may need to be nearby

Spend a few weeks, searching/logging first, bring the list back here and share, see what you've found

 

[jjhendo]

Why stop at 408? The federal land mobile radio band is 406.1-420 MHz.

I scanned these, and I did find some on my SDS200, but I'm getting that jackhammer sound too. Which I don't understand, because I did get the DMR upgrade. Is this another digital mode??

 

[dave3825]

What is the audio option on that channel set for?

 

[ecps92]

What is the audio option on that channel set for?

And what Freq did you find, that you think is DMR ?

 

[ecps92]

Anyone ever hear the US Postal Service? Theres a large facility close to me and I've scanned 406 to 408 and the Federal band on SDS200 and I think I've only ever heard some kind of truck yard freq? I think it's DMR, but I've never found anything else.

Asking again, what Frequency ??

 

[jjhendo]

Asking again, what Frequency ??

I'll scan this weekend, been busy.

 

[MississippiPI]

I will monitor them if it will help locate my missing mail.


Be safe

 

[richardbritt]

If you're mail went to the Richmond VA distribution center, it's probably still there. My Bcd436hp got there pretty quickly from Texas, but it took over a week for it to leave Richmond to get to me. And then they sent it on the wrong truck to Camden County post office, and then Camden sent it back to Richmond. Then it finally made it here. Richmond is famous for delivery delays.

 

[Hooligan]

How about putting a scanner in close-call/spectrum sweeper mode with the attenuator on & a small, low/no-gain antenna & external battery, and using USPS to mail it to yourself, sending it directly from a Post Office where it'd pass through your target of interest before being delivered to you?

 

[KK4JUG]

What does one hope to hear when monitoring USPS? Maybe I'm naïve but I really can't imagine much coming out of the post office that I'd want to hear.

 

[RaleighGuy]

What does one hope to hear when monitoring USPS? Maybe I'm naïve but I really can't imagine much coming out of the post office that I'd want to hear.

Fair question, but we all need to remember what one finds interesting others might not. I have no interest in school bus traffic, but many do, many find monitoring an encrypted system as boring but I find it helpful to identifying TGs and RID aliases based on the RID.

I monitored one of the local distribution centers a few times, needed to sit in the parking lot to hear it, and it was jam line 3, supervisor line 2 and such. Amazon, which also required me sitting across the street, was equally uninteresting, but others like it.

 

[KK4JUG]

I monitored one of the local distribution centers a few times, needed to sit in the parking lot to hear it, and it was jam line 3, supervisor line 2 and such. Amazon, which also required me sitting across the street, was equally uninteresting, but others like it.

I'm not surprised.

 

[ecps92]

What does one hope to hear when monitoring USPS? Maybe I'm naïve but I really can't imagine much coming out of the post office that I'd want to hear.

PIS - all ENC but used to hear stake outs on blue boxes or PO Boxes and the usual morning Fuel Reports as they gassed up the cars.

Sorting/Processing centers - Elevator reports, break downs of equipment, shift breaks.

It's more the ART of "it transmits, lets identify it" - doesn't mean we all listen, all the time.

Take the lead from the Media
if it BLEEDS it LEADS
so in this hobby many of us go, if it transmits we ID it.

The Hobby is so wide spread, someone will likely have an interest in it.

 

[Wilrobnson]

I monitored one of the USPS NDCs (Federal Way, WA) once to see what they had. DMR with two channels, one seemed to be a general ops talkgroup where everyone yelled back and forth at the supervisor, and a second TG that seemed to be for the supervisor to yell at workers individually.

It's somewhere in my files as the "Angry Supervisor Channel"

 

[dlwtrunked]

Fair question, but we all need to remember what one finds interesting others might not. I have no interest in school bus traffic, but many do, many find monitoring an encrypted system as boring but I find it helpful to identifying TGs and RID aliases based on the RID.

I monitored one of the local distribution centers a few times, needed to sit in the parking lot to hear it, and it was jam line 3, supervisor line 2 and such. Amazon, which also required me sitting across the street, was equally uninteresting, but others like it.

Some like you and I like the mental challenge of figuring systems out. For us, that is a challenge and interesting. Others are just into listening. For me once I know all about a system, whatever it is, I am far less interested in it or monitoring it. We are the "explorers" with others being the "tourists" (nothing wring with that).

 

[Wilrobnson]

I monitored one of the USPS NDCs (Federal Way, WA) once to see what they had. DMR with two channels, one seemed to be a general ops talkgroup where everyone yelled back and forth at the supervisor, and a second TG that seemed to be for the supervisor to yell at workers individually.

It's somewhere in my files as the "Angry Supervisor Channel"

Mea Culpa.

It was Las Vegas:

406.9375 (Slot 1/CC1/TG1) USPS Sort Ctr Ops

406.9375 (Slot 2/CC1/TG2) USPS Chat- angry supervisor

 

[kc2asb]

I monitored one of the local distribution centers a few times, needed to sit in the parking lot to hear it, and it was jam line 3, supervisor line 2 and such. Amazon, which also required me sitting across the street, was equally uninteresting, but others like it.

If I was closer to a distribution center, it might be fun to have it scan and see what pops up. Definitely not worth sitting in the car for any length of time just to hear routine operations

 

[ecps92]

If I was closer to a distribution center, it might be fun to have it scan and see what pops up. Definitely not worth sitting in the car for any length of time just to hear routine operations

True, but 20-40 min's easily/usually (IMHO) are enough to atleast ID and get into the RRDB much missing info

 

[KK4JUG]

Some like you and I like the mental challenge of figuring systems out. For us, that is a challenge and interesting. Others are just into listening. For me once I know all about a system, whatever it is, I am far less interested in it or monitoring it. We are the "explorers" with others being the "tourists" (nothing wring with that).

Understood. But, at 81, my successful mental challenges are limited. I'm a retired LEO and since the local PD decided, for all intents and purposes, to go silent, I'm not as interested as I used to be. I guess I'll stick with ham radio and my little country band.