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NASCAR Cup spreadsheet for anyone attending the Duels or the 500.
Any cells in orange color are unconfirmed, particularly tones that tend to change or new frequencies on the list.
Any cells in orange color are unconfirmed, particularly tones that tend to change or new frequencies on the list.
Is there something special about attachments here? I cannot seem to download this file.
The wiki for Nascar Cup frequencies NASCAR - The RadioReference Wiki links to Speedway Digest as a source, but that site doesn't provide the Tones. Where do the tones get sourced? I'm going to the Daytona 500 and I'd like to get my BC125AT programmed but there doesn't seem to be an official source for this info. Does nascar not publish it because they want you to rent the scanners from them? I saw that the RE scanners support OTA programming. Do they provide the tones or just the frequencies?
They all provide frequencies only. Tones are normally found with users of scanners searching for them. Racing electronics will sell a scanner list at all tracks. Normally it $5-10 but is the known frequencies for the event for all series on track. 90% of the Speedway Digest stuff is right. If your not a serius user and going to 30 tracks just use that list and enjoy the race. Tones dont fix alot of stuff.
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Racing Electronics will sell a frequency sheet for $10. I have not confirmed but have a guess that the Speedway Digest database uses that sheet as a source.
If you do not have confirmation of a tone that race weekend, it is best to leave the CTCSS/DCS setting on Search. Think of tones as a filter code. Any radio transmission that does not have that specific "code" will be blocked. It is useful for large race tracks to turn the squelch on maximum sensitivity to make it easier to hear a driver when they are on the other side of the track. At MIS, I couldn't hear any JGR cars on the backstretch without a tone (too much interference).
Nobody publishes "official" tones and some teams change their tones each season, or even in the middle of the season. Racing Electronics will program the RE3000, RE1000, and Uniden SC230 with the frequencies and tones.
I am not at Daytona to verify frequencies or tones.
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Racescanners.net has a very decent updated lists for purchase ymmv. The only negative I find with having a re3000 is if it's a split race weekend if truck or xfinity is not at same track as Main series you may or may not have ota or a Re rep there with trailer or ota antenna. And at times at those split races if there's not retail sales trailer the ota may be close to garage and very limited rx.
Race Control is using 464.600 DCS631 I'm listening to this at Daytona as I type this.
What frequency does RE use for the OTA? I'd like to capture the signal using an SDR and see if I can decode it. Why pay for it if they are braodcasting it for free for their own radios.
That one is listed on the wiki as NASCAR 2 / 12. Not sure what The labels mean on the nascar freqs:
NASCAR - The RadioReference Wiki
NASCAR 1 / 11
NASCAR 2 / 12 (Race Control ?)
NASCAR 5 / 15
NASCAR 10
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I haven't seen anything in analog on anything other 461.200 and 464.600 in years
Did you do OTA for your RE at Daytona? If so, how far away from their trailer were you? They gave me a freq sheet for free because their credit card terminals weren't working lol. The frequency sheet doesn't list the Tones on it though, do they provide them via OTA or does their scanner search for them?
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I wasn't at Daytona a friend was and used Ota from the garage and infield. The OTA will change during a weekend and I update mine multiple times. New tones or new frequency if local interference.
I keep wanting to save the OTA data and figure it out as. The trackscan branded radios will no longer update so I need to figure out there protocol. I was told it was a repeater. But I call bs as I've only ever found 1 freq no input and out.
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That's interesting. I saw something from RE saying to be within 100 feet of their trailer for the OTA to work. Looks like their transmitter is more powerful than they let on.
That would be interesting, not sure what format it would be in, I doubt LRRP, and not sure how DSD+ FL would decode it.
I've looked for all licenses associated to RE in the 450 to 470 range. They have a ton for all the Nascar tracks but they are all in the 450 to 470 range which I assume isn't where they transmit since the cars use that range. I'm going to take my portable specan and SDR to the next race in August and see if I can find what freq they transmit on from that trailer. I didn't want to bring that stuff since it was my first time and I didn't know if I'd get hassled at the gate, but my wife and I went through the security without getting wanded or having our bags looked through. But the track site says laptops and electronics are permitted.
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It won't work with old trackscan radios anymore and it won't work with the ota programming some unidens had/have. Works beautifully on Re3000 and the Re Legends I own.
The OP and I were speaking about his desire to try to decode it using a SDR dongle.
