Wisconsin freq in the 400

[sheriff205]

hi to all i was searching the Wisconsin freq page on your web site and i was thinking does the state of wi
have a freq so i can pick up some cop or ems action in the 400 or the 600 or somthing that is not trunked like ems or police dispach? because i found some small Wisconsin county airports
that would be cool but im kinda confused: lol

 

[djeplett]

Gotta reference your particular location and then somebody can give you something to listen to in those ranges. There are too many agencies to list in the state that use those ranges.

 

[R8000]

I had to read your post a few times to understand what you were asking. I don't intend to come off as being rude, but it is a bit hard to understand what questions you ask sometimes. I know you are new to the hobby, but you should try and perhaps word your questions a bit better.

From what I gathered, you are asking if there is any police or ems activity on 400 or 600 MHZ that are not on a trunking system ?

First off, 600 MHZ ....you won't find much there. Forget about it.

Second, 400 MHZ or also known as UHF has a bit of activity of all sorts. Public safety, commercial, ham, etc.

What you will find depends on the area your interested on scanning in. If your in Milwaukee, and as stated many many many times here, you will not hear too much in UHF for public safety as the city is on a 800 MHZ digital trunked system that CAN NOT be heard by any scanner. Perhaps a Milwaukee user can tell you the details on what agencies have switched to it, but the plan is for all public safety users in the city to be on it.

If your in Madison, you will find the city all on 800 MHZ trunked. I think they may still use the old UHF paging freq for fire station alerting .

What you need to do is this...

1. Research the database before posting. You may find your answer there. If it's not in the database, then RR doesn't know about it, or it's classified. As a previous Motorola technician, I can assure you there are many freq's out there that the public doesn't know about, and for good reason. Those channels you don't want to be caught listening to....seriously.

Again as a previous Motorola tech, I can assure you RR is probably the best site on the net for scanner freq's. Us techs even used them for info. Normally radio techs can't divulge information like that. If I was asked, I would refer them to RR as it's normally already on here and in public forum and keeps me out of trouble.

2. If you need to post to have a question answered, tell us where your scanning from by putting it in your profile. If you refuse to do that, at least tell us in the posting where your located, a county or city would be nice. Asking us for a UHF freq in Wisconsin for "cop" action is pretty generic. It's a big state and UHF doesn't travel too far. We need to know where your at. if your in Milwaukee, we'd tell you the city is a no go for scanner much anymore. Your only bet is to monitor the nearby counties.

3. Please word your posting on here so we can understand a bit better. RR has some good folks on here who take scanning as a hobby seriously and keep excellent records and including radios techs who have great knowledge of scanner and radio systems. Asking us for UHF frequencies for "cop" action probably puts a lot of users off an pass up your postings. I don't intend to come off insulting here as I am trying to be helpful. Personally, I can't stand it when forum users on....well...any forum become grammar and spelling cops. My take is, as long as we can understand what your saying, then ...meh. Big deal. However, I have had some trouble trying to understand some of your previous questions. So please, try to word them a but clearer, you my find more users willing to help you

There are many reasons why areas will huddle on VHF, or UHF or even 800. Normally the rules for trunking systems are, metro area with a population of 500,000 people. That is the target RF engineers look for before considering a trunked radio system. The population base has to be great enough to support the upkeep on the system. Which, is a big job as each radio has to be setup individually for system security reasons. Normally if an area has a trunk system, they have their own radio shop. Not all do, but that's a general rule of thumb.

I can't vouch for areas too far North of Madison and Milwaukee as I lived in Madison when I was still in the USA. From the IL border to a line from about LaCrosse to Milwaukee, you find most public safety on VHF, and some on 800 trunked in the city areas.

Again, I don't mean to cut you down or anything, but being your new I wanted to help you understand why we can't sometimes can't give you the answer you want. Most of us started out in scanning by buying our first scanner and being glued to it. I started when I was 12 with my Radio Shack PRO 38. And up until April I built public safety simulcast systems. Scanning got me into the being a vol fire fighter, ems, being a police dispatcher, fire/ems dispatcher and all the way up to building the systems public safety talks on.

73's

 

[N8IAA]

Ya'll gotta realize that he has an analog, 200 channel scanner, and lives in the Milwaukee area. What he needs is a face to face with someone in his area to help him understand the limitations of his scanner.
Larry

 

[canav844]

From some past threads I've gathered the OP is on the NW side of Milwaukee so this is tailored to that but the same basic principle can apply anywhere if anyone else is searching and comes across this thread.

If you've found a frequency and want to know what it is....

Write it down

go to

Wisconsin Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Enter it into the search box, the one on the left usually gets a little more info than the one on the right. You'll get a list, look for the one closest to you and see if what you hear makes sense with the listing you see. You may have to go up or down a few kilohertz (.00X or .00XX) to get to the true frequency to search for.

Or if you're looking for stuff you can enter in then....

Here's the link to the WI State Patrol Frequencies.
Wisconsin State Patrol Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Here's some nearby cities frequencies you can try to plug in and find something active on

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (WI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Ozaukee County, Wisconsin (WI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Waukesha County, Wisconsin (WI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Washington County, Wisconsin (WI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Milwaukee and Ozakee counties will likely be hard to get a lot of listening from as you won't be able to hear anything listed as being "on the county TRS" but there should be a handful of Fire frequencies you could hear and the last link of Washington County should be able to provide you some decent listening.

Also your scanner should do well listening to VHF and UHF ham operations, and there's some active clubs in the Milwaukee area, that you may be able to find a ham or two that would be willing to teach you more about radio in general. The 145.13 is usually pretty active and something you may find interesting. There's also some UHF repeaters that are linked over the internet to others around the state so you can hear someone commuting in Green Bay talking to someone in Madison while you're in Milwaukee.

Here's a list of the WI Ham repeaters, sorted by area and city
Repeater Directory Listing


You can also plug in the FRS/GMRS and MURS bands and hear a mix of business and personal conversations.

 

[jdm911]

I would also suggest that the OP learn how to use the search feature on his/her scanner. So much of the hobby's enjoyment is discovering things on your own. I personally think that you are missing out on a lot of the fun of finding things on your own. While this is a great group of people on this forum I worry that after time, your posts might start being ignored. Once you understand the search feature of your radio you might even be able to post some of your successful finds rather than post after post of you asking for, in many instances, the results of other members hard work. I have no idea of what your personal situation is and do not want to, in any way, make this out to be a belittling post. I just remember the fun of hearing something new and then investigating who or what I was hearing. Have a great day and enjoy.