PittsburghPoPo
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Long time lurker, recent poster. I'm not a techie, I just want to listen to certain actitvity on my scanner. There were two localities that I couldn't seem to find "good" frequencies for. Namely McKees Rocks & Stowe Township police in Allegheny County / Pittsburgh area.
I admire and respect the amount of time and effort the authors have put into the RR Database and the K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page. For me, it was just these two localities that didn't seem to work. I've been watching both police departments cars blaze by with lights and sirens for some time now - with no air traffic. HMMMMMMMM??????
Solution - I ran a query on the FCC database for the name of the towns, zip, and FRC. I was able to narrow it down to three call signs in less than five minutes. I plugged the frequencies into my trusty Trident TRX-200 and sat for a bit at the local Eat N Park (McKees Rocks and Stowe Twp border one another).
Wallah!!! Stowe Township PD was lighting up the scanner! I haven't confirmed the remaining frequencies as to whether they are additional PD freq's or Fire/Emergency. Here are the freq's:
WBC286 / FRN 0003168192 TOWNSHIP OF STOWE
465.0250 - CONFIRMED STOWE PD
465.1250
465.4500
WPCG423 / FRN 0003172004 MC KEES ROCKS, BORO OF
458.3875
WPCG913 / FRN 0003172004 MC KEES ROCKS, BOROUGH OF
460.3250
If anyone lives in those towns and can help us confirm the use of the freq's, it would be greatly appreciated. Once we are sure of the traffic, we can have the pages updated.
I admire and respect the amount of time and effort the authors have put into the RR Database and the K3FS Pittsburgh Area Scanning Page. For me, it was just these two localities that didn't seem to work. I've been watching both police departments cars blaze by with lights and sirens for some time now - with no air traffic. HMMMMMMMM??????
Solution - I ran a query on the FCC database for the name of the towns, zip, and FRC. I was able to narrow it down to three call signs in less than five minutes. I plugged the frequencies into my trusty Trident TRX-200 and sat for a bit at the local Eat N Park (McKees Rocks and Stowe Twp border one another).
Wallah!!! Stowe Township PD was lighting up the scanner! I haven't confirmed the remaining frequencies as to whether they are additional PD freq's or Fire/Emergency. Here are the freq's:
WBC286 / FRN 0003168192 TOWNSHIP OF STOWE
465.0250 - CONFIRMED STOWE PD
465.1250
465.4500
WPCG423 / FRN 0003172004 MC KEES ROCKS, BORO OF
458.3875
WPCG913 / FRN 0003172004 MC KEES ROCKS, BOROUGH OF
460.3250
If anyone lives in those towns and can help us confirm the use of the freq's, it would be greatly appreciated. Once we are sure of the traffic, we can have the pages updated.
