Coronavirus Scanner Setup ?

[w2lie]

Scanning and the Corona Virus!

I am working on an upcoming episode of my podcast, Scanner School and I was wondering..

What would you put in your scanner if a small outbreak should happen or if your local area might have a suspected case?

In my area, I would listen to the Medcom UHF frequencies since my county had been using them in the past. My local county now talks to medcom on 3 P25 talk groups and my neighboring county uses a Motorola Type II System.

I would assume some Federal Searching would come into play. Exactly who would you be searching for?
Maybe there would be some Red Cross nets established.

What would you put in your scanner if there was a coronavirus scare in your immediate area?
Inquiring minds would like to know..

Thanks

 

[RaleighGuy]

Lots of good advice in the thread below. I'd be monitoring the state Public Health Service and the state EMOC on our statewide VIPER radio system

Frequencies for U.S. Public Health Service

I have searched multiple sources but I have been unable to locate any scanner data for the USPHS. I live in Nebraska near Camp Ashland were the Federal Government is placing involuntarialy quarenteened U.S. citizens that are returning from China. I'm just curious to hear any of the traffic...

forums.radioreference.com

 

[W8RMH]

Federal, State, local Emergency Management Agencies, and hospital interop networks.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

I would put the entire VHF and UHF federal bands in scan mode and see what you hear. It may be in P25, or encrypted.

 

[JoeyC]

I think you'd hear about the same as any outbreak of the flu. Nothing.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Ask people from Washington State what they are hearing? Not alot of reports from there despite two deaths and many suspected cases.

 

[ecps92]

Anything from the NIFOG

your Local Interops

At this time, IMHO there is not enough [based on news updates] to warrant radio use.
Most likely all is Cellular and Data [Internet] from the current Mil-Bases being used.

Scanning and the Corona Virus!

I am working on an upcoming episode of my podcast, Scanner School and I was wondering..

What would you put in your scanner if a small outbreak should happen or if your local area might have a suspected case?

In my area, I would listen to the Medcom UHF frequencies since my county had been using them in the past. My local county now talks to medcom on 3 P25 talk groups and my neighboring county uses a Motorola Type II System.

I would assume some Federal Searching would come into play. Exactly who would you be searching for?
Maybe there would be some Red Cross nets established.

What would you put in your scanner if there was a coronavirus scare in your immediate area?
Inquiring minds would like to know..

Thanks

 

[greggk]

Scanning and the Corona Virus!

I am working on an upcoming episode of my podcast, Scanner School and I was wondering..

What would you put in your scanner if a small outbreak should happen or if your local area might have a suspected case?

In my area, I would listen to the Medcom UHF frequencies since my county had been using them in the past. My local county now talks to medcom on 3 P25 talk groups and my neighboring county uses a Motorola Type II System.

I would assume some Federal Searching would come into play. Exactly who would you be searching for?
Maybe there would be some Red Cross nets established.

What would you put in your scanner if there was a coronavirus scare in your immediate area?
Inquiring minds would like to know..

Thanks

This is a VERY good suggestion. I'm not sure what I would scan as I never thought about it. Its a great Wake Up Call to all of us.

I believe the National Weather Service, who puts out alerts and warnings about severe weather, as well as Amber Alerts, and many other warnings, may get involved with this. I wouldn't trust them as my only source however.

I heard this morning that the virus was in 4 states now. I have heard thru news sources that 98% of people with the virus DO NOT die. Still, that does not make the other 2% happy to hear.

I would be glad to see others here who may know what departments/agencies that we can monitor with a scanner educate the rest of us. Thanks. Greg

 

[Chronic]

Interactive corona virus map / tool

ArcGIS Dashboards

ArcGIS Dashboards

www.arcgis.com

 

[greggk]

Had no idea this many countries were involved with this. Good Map and Info. Greg

 

[wtp]

put in FEMA freqs
when you see/hear those guys in your neighborhood, it is getting really serious.

 

[hiegtx]

Scanning and the Corona Virus!

I am working on an upcoming episode of my podcast, Scanner School and I was wondering..

What would you put in your scanner if a small outbreak should happen or if your local area might have a suspected case?

In my area, I would listen to the Medcom UHF frequencies since my county had been using them in the past. My local county now talks to medcom on 3 P25 talk groups and my neighboring county uses a Motorola Type II System.

I would assume some Federal Searching would come into play. Exactly who would you be searching for?
Maybe there would be some Red Cross nets established.

What would you put in your scanner if there was a coronavirus scare in your immediate area?
Inquiring minds would like to know..

Thanks

Federal agencies (including FEMA) , NIFOG frequencies, any frequencies or talkgroups by your city, or county, health department.

However, when we had the ebola death here locally several years ago, plus two nurses who treated the victim that died in a local hospital, there was a lot of chatter on local media, but there was virtually no radio traffic increase related to the ebola cases.

 

[trentbob]

Not sure you're going to hear very much at all. Specific Federal response from any kind of an organized reaction team will certainly be encrypted as all federal for the most part communication now is encrypted.

You could hear on your local rescue squad or ambulance talk group someone mentioned possible coronavirus but probably not, each County probably has a code for that now. They know we're listening

One thing I remember during the anthrax scare in my city I work in as a reporter Trenton New Jersey which had the post office that the first Anthrax attacks were mailed from and had to be closed for three years to be completely decontaminated... Every time there was a anthrax scare the professional Trenton fire department responded with their Advanced HazMat team and wore the Big Green space suits as opposed to the smaller space suits. They were making a few dozen runs a day. So your HazMat team might be involved and dispatched.

One thing's for sure you're not going to have a whole lot to hear in the clear on the Coronavirus. They are allocating eight billion dollars to deal with this and that's going to be a lot of stuff bought to not only care for the public but to keep it all quiet until they're ready to release whatever they want to release just like every other country who may or may not be telling the truth.

 

[darkness975]

I don't even have any of those federal, public safety, etc. talk groups enabled. I seem to recall hearing SOME things on one of the "Statewide public safety" or Federal public safety or whatever that system is, but it was generally nothing more than static. If I was in a different location, things may be different ...

 

[Giddyuptd]

Last time red cross, FEMA had some ops in NM they were all secured. Cache radios were signed out then turned back in during those exercises with local OEM and entities.