Scanning Cass and Clay counties

[davephoto]

First I should tell you a little about me so you understand why I'm asking (what I assume are) pretty basic questions. I'm a photojournalist in West Fargo and just recently purchases a RadioShack PRO-106 digital scanner. When the local agencies were analog programming my old Uniden scanners was pretty straitghtforward but digital appears to be quite different. My knowledge of radios and scanning is pretty much limited to plugging in the frequencies and turning on the power.

Now my questions. First off, the employees pre-programmed the scanner with all the local frequencies except they put in all the OLD ANALOG frequencies. Nice. I used Win500 and info from the Radio Reference database to enter the correct frequencies. All of these frequencies are listed "conventional", including the digital ones. Do any of these digital frequencies need to be entered in the trunking section of Win500?

Do all digital frequencies involve trunking or is that merely an option of digital?

Sorry if these are simple questions but I'm a little lost.

Cheers,

Dave

 

[oktex88]

Go to Cass County, North Dakota (ND) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference and try plugging one of one those freqs like you would a normal anolog freq. I did this up in grand forks with my digital and it works.

 

[NDRADIONUT]

THE ONLY TRUNKED STUFF WORTH LISTENING TO IN THE FLOOD IS THE MHD PUBLIC SERVICE TALKGROUPS ON THIS SYS : Scanner Frequencies: Fargo-Moorhead Public Service Trunking System, Fargo, Multi-State

THE REST IS ALL CONVENTIONAL ANALOG OR DIGITAL.
HERE IS A LIST OF FLOOD FREQS :
156.8000 COAST GUARD CH 16
157.1000 COAST GUARD RESCUE PRIMARY ( LOTS OF TRAFFIC )
157.0500 COAST GUARD RESCUE
156.4250 RIVER PATROL
166.2500 NEWS VULTURES FROM MPLS
170.7500 NEWS VULTURES FROM MPLS
154.8150 ND CONSERVATION
159.3000 MN CONSERVATION / RIVER PATROL
151.4750 MN DNR FIRE ETC.
160.9500 MN ST PATROL COMMAND POST
155.4750 LAW OPS
153.8300 ????
155.3550 MHD FIRE ( DIKE BREACH QUICK RESPONSE )
151.3100 MHD FIRE
153.4700 MHD POWER AND WATER
155.9250 MSU SECURITY
154.1150 MSU MAINT.
155.9025 MSU MAINT.
-47.4200 RED CROSS
-47.5000 RED CROSS FARGO BASE
-49.6500 MN GUARD
-49.7500 MN GUARD
-49.8000 ND GUARD CHOPPERS ( SANDBAG DROPS )
-46.0000 ND GUARD CHOPPERS ( SANDBAG DROPS )
148.1500 CAP
462.9750 EVAC
464.5000 SALVATION ARMY
453.8250 SANDBAG DELIVERY FARGO
453.6250 FARGO ??
453.7250 FARGO ??

 

[davephoto]

Thanks for the replies!

NDRADIONUT, those additional frequencies will come in handy if the second crest is as bad as predicted.

Are you familiar with Fargo fire at all? I have both frequencies from this database in my scanner but all I'm picking up is central dispatch -- I don't even get the trucks responding to the call let alone fire-to-fire communications.

 

[NDRADIONUT]

155.2425 Has All Of The Communications After The Pages....