Took my Grandson to Dover on Monday, Sun eve decision. Had to get my daughters permission to miss school. We used the BC125AT. After Richmond, I sent the scanner to have "AUDIO MODIFICATION (HEADSET VOLUME INCREASED) - UNIDENS ---------- $18.99*" found online. We used the scanner with a splitter, and both had plenty of volume. I recommend the mod. Attached is a BC125AT file with codes . It worked very well.
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Very impressed that that modification is so reasonable and available.
I I have searched the NASCAR Wiki and did not find any information regarding the Nascar event in Wilkesboro North Carolina this weekend. I'm pretty close to there and thought it would be a good event to try and attend and scan but I didn't see any help anybody else going?
I I have searched the NASCAR Wiki and did not find any information regarding the Nascar event in Wilkesboro North Carolina this weekend. I'm pretty close to there and thought it would be a good event to try and attend and scan but I didn't see any help anybody else going?
The frequencies don't usually change from race to race. You can use the ones posted in this thread.
yup all the ones above will be active. I'll be there in the AM.
With only 25,000 seats available on an All Star Weekend. Good Luck.
According to this it has been sold out since November. NASCAR All-Star Weekend is sold out.
VA2SWP
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I popped in here to ask the same...
Just having anyone being able to chime in on a NASCAR team's radio freq is a) embarassing (c'mon folks.... technology... I know you're still getting used to fuel injection and center lock wheels, but really....) and b) utterly dangerous! (in all seriousness)
Just having anyone being able to chime in on a NASCAR team's radio freq is a) embarassing (c'mon folks.... technology... I know you're still getting used to fuel injection and center lock wheels, but really....) and b) utterly dangerous! (in all seriousness)
The teams have secondary channels they can switch to. They switched when someone interfered with the radios of Alex Bowman and Kyle Busch during a race a few years ago.
Maybe they should follow Formula 1 and switch to TETRA 🤔
The teams have DMR capabilities as most, if not all teams use Motorola XPR radios. NASCAR officials already use encrypted DMR. The fact that race-related comms are still analog is for the fans. Racing Electronics scanners are very popular with fans and even the media. They are only capable of analog, as are the old Uniden NASCAR scanners from the 90s, which many fans still use. They don't HAVE to use analog, but they do anyway because they know fans like to listen. To say they still use analog because they're out of touch just isn't true. In fact, a brand new Cup Series car was used beginning in 2022. It's a completely new and advanced design that has been years in the making. NASCAR is anything but behind the times.
Here's a case study from Motorola about NASCAR's radios:
Maybe they should follow Formula 1 and switch to TETRA 🤔
The teams have DMR capabilities as most, if not all teams use Motorola XPR radios. NASCAR officials already use encrypted DMR. The fact that race-related comms are still analog is for the fans. Racing Electronics scanners are very popular with fans and even the media. They are only capable of analog, as are the old Uniden NASCAR scanners from the 90s, which many fans still use. They don't HAVE to use analog, but they do anyway because they know fans like to listen. To say they still use analog because they're out of touch just isn't true. In fact, a brand new Cup Series car was used beginning in 2022. It's a completely new and advanced design that has been years in the making. NASCAR is anything but behind the times.
Here's a case study from Motorola about NASCAR's radios:
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I listened to the recording of the idiot. It had a Roger Beep on his radio. I'm willing to bet they had a ccr with the Roger Beep turned on. Wouldn't be surprised if it was same tool that did this with Kyle.
ccsprague
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Sorry, not familiar with that acronym. A what?
CCR = Cheap Chinese radio
ccsprague
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Gotcha. I was like Creedence Clearwater Revival…? xD
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Let's hope they don't go to TETRA like F1....the audio quality is terrible. Its so bad even FOM stopped using the actual pit-car radio link audio some time ago, and now use an audio channel from the onboard camera link that takes its feed from the drivers microphone.
If NASCAR wanted to better protect the integrity of the pit-car links, they could shift it all to digital (DMR with enc/RAS enabled) and then simply rebroadcast on analogue for the fans, like many IMSA teams do.
How close to the track would you need to be to hear with a handheld scanner?
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Generally speaking the spotters up on top of any grandstands, anything using a mast like ones they sometimes put up next to a pit box that goes up 25 feet or more, and the cars when they are on top of high banked turns go the farthest. I'm about 5 miles from DIS and only have a discone at roof level of my 1 story house and typically hear all of this.
Users that are on handhelds with small antennas at ground level are probably only going to go a mile or 2.
If you are in the track, the issue can sometime be too much signal(s) and removing your antenna or using a super small one might help.
Local geography can affect things too. We could hear them racing at Sonoma across the bay up in the hills of Crockett.
Users that are on handhelds with small antennas at ground level are probably only going to go a mile or 2.
If you are in the track, the issue can sometime be too much signal(s) and removing your antenna or using a super small one might help.
Local geography can affect things too. We could hear them racing at Sonoma across the bay up in the hills of Crockett.
