Cruise scan.

[Torus34]

I'll be cruising New England and Canada for a couple of weeks on the C. Summit this year. Hopefully, I'll be able to pin down some of the ship's frequencies beside the standard marine channels.

Additionally, I suspect that each city/town we visit will have its own scanner 'aura'.

Any advice from old hands at this would be most helpful.

Thanks.

Jim

 

[eriepascannist]

The marine VHF channels are a must being so close to the coast. Also, whenever we go on vacation, I look up what counties through which we will be traveling, and find the main PD/FD/EMS freqs for the area and often the ham repeaters. I also add things like state police and the like for interstate cruising. Not sure how much traveling you will be doing, but it's a sort of fun tradition for me to dig through the RadioReference databases, find freqs, and enter them, to see what I'll hear. Of course that could get very tedious, very quickly, depending on where you go and how often.

Also, I'm not sure what kind of radio you have, but many of the Uniden radios come with preprogrammed banks of police frequencies for the sort of thing you're describing. Most all radios also have service searches, so you can specify to search the radio's preprogrammed freqs for PD/FD/EMS etc. I find that a lot is missed that way but for unplanned trips or frequent travel that works good.

Try some of these methods, and refine them for what you want to do. The best methods are the ones you experiment with and find work best for your circumstances.

Have fun in your travels, and on RR!!!

 

[hpycmpr]

Good advice. Also check this site: Cruise Ship and Maritime Monitoring

Steve

 

[W8RMH]

When traveling I always make heavy use of the search and close call features.

Also I would find out who owns the ship and search for any FCC licenses.

 

[ecps92]

Celebrity Summit uses
467.7500R / 457.5250 85.4 Hz
467.5500R / 457.5500 82.5 Hz
457.6000S 77.0 Hz

What Day do you leave? I'll let you know the other Ships you will encounter.

As for the Ports of Call, yes each one will bring it's own interesting monitoring for Public Safety and Business [outside of Maritime]

I'll be cruising New England and Canada for a couple of weeks on the C. Summit this year. Hopefully, I'll be able to pin down some of the ship's frequencies beside the standard marine channels.

Additionally, I suspect that each city/town we visit will have its own scanner 'aura'.

Any advice from old hands at this would be most helpful.

Thanks.

Jim

 

[ecps92]

Generally you will NEVER find the ships under and FCC License for the UHF Marine channels, and/or the other LMR they pop-up under

When traveling I always make heavy use of the search and close call features.

Also I would find out who owns the ship and search for any FCC licenses.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

As stated, the VHF marine channels are a must. On board, any number of lower power handheld radios will be in use some of which may cover the MURS segement including the 467mhz range. I took my first and only cruise in '06(Alaska on PRINCESS) and unless I wasn't searching in the right places at the time, I found very little transmissions on the frequencies that were assigned when. Close to an hour would pass before I would hear anything when we were far from land and mostly house keeping issues but better than nothing. I found there was obviously plenty to hear when getting closer to port. FRS radio's were being used to for families and friends to keep in contact since ships are a great place to get lost.

 

[Torus34]

Wow!

A big heartfelt 'Thank you' to each of you who've taken the time to reply to my post

I'm busy setting up my scanner's banks [Pro-95]. The job is made easier by Win95 software and a GRE cable. I can pin the frequencies for some of our port cities with this site's data bases [and others,] and will search-scan from there. Quebec will present a challenge as my French is best described as 'tres peu'. [Imagine a Gallic shrug.]

I'll also do my best to locate the on-board staff comm frequencies, starting with the suggestion of 467 mHz. Pilot boat comm's will also be of interest.

Looking forward to sitting at a table on the cafeteria deck with a glass of red wine [or a cup of coffee, depending upon the hour,] and wandering up and down the bands. One could do worse with leisure time, I'm a'thinkin'.

Jim [Torus34]