scanner set up

[nec208]

How do you have your scanner set up and how many talkgroups do you monitor.

For me it is Brampton fire, all of York fire, PRP 21 and 22 station and YRP 4 sation.And any more it is too much radio traffic .If there too much radio traffic I may limit monitoring the 5 users above.

I monitor EMS time to time .I do other stuff too so I cannot spend every day glued to the scanner may be 2 or 3 times in 7 days .I know other scanner guys that spend more times in 7 days than me.

 

[pappy1]

So, what is your point?

 

[EJB]

I usually scan 2 systems at a time, my local 9Halton) and Hamilton Fleetnet tower.
In Toronto I usually tune in TPS EMS & a fleetnet tower.
On the way to work, I start with Hamilton and switch to Mississauga where the 403 splits off from the Q.

 

[mciupa]

on the hand held

Bank 1 TPS WEST
2 TPS NORTH
3 TPS SOUTH
4 TPS EAST
5 (EDACS bank) TOR EMS ( or HALTON when I am in MILTON)
6 YORK
7 Variable Fleetnet sites (depends on location visiting)
8 non-trunk
9 PEEL or DURHAM (depends whom I am visiting ,have both systems in one bank)
10 TORONTO WORKS / HYDRO

on the base : all fourToronto sites , eight Fleetnet towers , Peel , York ,Halton ,Toronto EMS,Toronto Hydro .

 

[Saint]

Setup

This is the setup I use at Home In Fort Erie.

396T Handheld scanner
System 1 Fort Erie frequencies
System 2 Niagara Falls Ontario Frequencies
System 3 Niagara Region Frequencies
System 4 Fleetnet Niagara Falls Ontario Tower
System 5 + 6 Talk WireLess Fonthill LTR Trunked System
System 7 Mobile Business Fonthill LTR System
System 8 Commercial Air Frequencies
System 9 Military Air Frequencies
System 10 Buffalo NY Frequencies

8% of my Memory is used
Steve

 

[pathalogical]

My 246 is as follows:

SQK:
1. conventional freqs (various stuff, particularly TTC)
2. Toronto Police: all 4 sites with only police TGIDs
3. York Region
4. Various other trunked systems.
5. Peel Region
6. Toronto EMS: all 4 sites with only EMS TGIDs.
7. Fleetcom/Lakeshore #4
8. Bell Fleetnet Zone 1 sites 009, 039, 040 for analog EMS
9. Toronto Hydro/Public Works
10. Toronto Fire: all 4 sites with only Fire TGIDs

My pro 43 is for air traffic with stock ducky.

Only Toronto pol/fire/ems are alpha tagged. Very few others are tagged. I haven't used the software. Currently at 52% memory used. Off topic -- I have reception issues, even though I have a 130 in the attic, I still receive York and Peel very poorly (with ducky or 130) and also TPS East site. It overloads my pro 43 not allowing me to hear YYZ atc side of the conversation.

 

[wyldman]

I hate trying to follow all the action on just one scanner or radio.

I usually use one scanner or Motorola radio to monitor each thing I want to hear.

I use 2 BC898T's running ID tracker on external LCD's for monitoring Peel fire and police.When something is going on,I have a few Maxtracs that I use to listen to the specific talkgroup the incident is on.PDW is always running as well,so I know what is going on on each channel,and can tune directly to it.I also use the Toronto CAD to see what is going on there,and have another Maxtrac set up for all of Toronto.

In the car,I use a 396 for scanning,and MCS2000's 800's and Maxtracs for listening.A 996 works good for OPP and Fleenet.I also have another MCS 8000 VHF for fleetnet as well.PDW runs on a mini tablet PC and a portable scanner.

On the go,I use MTX8000's,MTS2000's,and the 330 or 396.

The key for me is breaking up the scanning across multiple radios,so I don't miss anything.

 

[LordJ]

Primarily listen to Fleetnet, in ID search, then My local Fire dept...I kick on the other stuff when something big happens...

 

[FoeHammer]

well I usually listen to local trunked sys among other things , but if the question is how did I set it up ,...well being an old scanner user from the early days the jump to the 396 took some time to break old habits for example,I programmed in all the freqs for fleetnet before I understood what control channel scanning was , I still have plenty of memory & its not really hurting anything , besides I have wondered if 1 or more towers go down for some reason perhaps it could come in handy , I dunno I'm not familiar with how the backup would work ,also it works great ,& I'm to lazy to reprogram it properly....

 

[mbstone99]

Radio Setup

My radio setup when I was/am up in Ontario..

1) Ontariowide stuff (Police/OPP/Fire/Ambulance)
2) Brant TRS/PS Conventional
Haldimand PS Conventional
Norfolk PS Conventional
Brantford/Cayuga/Simcoe Fleetnet Towers
3) Waterloo TRS/PS Conventional
Wentworth PS Conventional
Guelph City/Guelph West/Kitchener Fleetnet Towers
4) Niagara PS Conventional
Niagara Falls/Welland Fleetnet Towers
5) Hamilton TRS/PS Conventional
Hamilton Fleetnet Tower
6) Halton TRS (3 Towers)/PS Conventional
Ballinfad Fleetnet Tower
7) Peel TRS/PS Conventional
Mississauga Fleetnet Tower
8) Toronto Ambulance TRS
Toronto Fire/Police TRS (4 Towers)/PS Conventional
Toronto Fleetnet Tower
9) Durham TRS/PS Conventional
York TRS/PS Conventional
King City/Whitby Fleetnet Towers
10) Common LPU's

Lots of stuff to listen to wherever I am in southern Ontario and I have about the same amount of stuff in my radio for down here.

Matt

 

[hypersight]

I have:
1 Trunk OPP
2 Trunk MOH
3 Trunk TPS
4 Trunk TFS and TO EMS
5 Trunk Peel Region PD, FD, CBSA
6 Trunk York Region PD, FD
7 Conv. OPP,RCMP Simplex
8 Conv. PDs (Barrie and South Simcoe) and USA PDs (like Buffalo, Rochester etc)
9 Conv. small-town FDs
0 Conv. low-power common business freqs. and FRS

 

[I_10_92]

396t

1. York Region
- Police
- Markham Fire
- Richmond Hill Fire
- Vaughan Fire
2. Toronto
- Police
- EMS
3. Security
- Misc Security
- Tow Trucks
4. Durham Fire
- Fire
5. Peel
- Police
- Mississauga Fire
- Brampton Fire
6. Halton PD/Fire
- Police
- Interagency
- Fire
- Patches
7. OPP Zone 2
- Wide Area
- Detatchments
- Combined
- Intelligence
- Tactical
8. OPP Zone 1
- Central
- GTA
- Intel
- Tactical
9. Toronto Fire
- Dispatch
- Mutual Aid
- North
- South
- East
- West