Funny/Odd things heard on the scanner

[DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

Listening to a GMRS repeater, hearing a random keyup every few minutes. Besides a couple instances of someone else playing music, someone eventually got on after the kerchunk and said in a Monty Python-esque accent "If thou cannot thinketh before thou transmiteth, shut thou up."

 

[IC-R20]

Listening to a GMRS repeater, hearing a random keyup every few minutes. Besides a couple instances of someone else playing music, someone eventually got on after the kerchunk and said in a Monty Python-esque accent "If thou cannot thinketh before thou transmiteth, shut thou up."

Same reason I never scan HAME either, it’s nothing but kerchunking all the time holding up the scanner.

 

[DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

Up north we never have any kerchunks on GMRS, mainly because there's no repeaters. We do hear the tourists though on the first 5 channels. HAM is too dead to be worth scanning here.

Now the highway department repeater, that thing falses a *lot*. Lots and lots of squelch tails, followed by the 3 or 4 second repeater tail. It doesn't sound very great when someone tries to talk on it, either.

 

[IC-R20]

Up north we never have any kerchunks on GMRS, mainly because there's no repeaters. We do hear the tourists though on the first 5 channels. HAM is too dead to be worth scanning here.

Now the highway department repeater, that thing falses a *lot*. Lots and lots of squelch tails, followed by the 3 or 4 second repeater tail. It doesn't sound very great when someone tries to talk on it, either.

The cactus intertie repeater near me does that a lot too followed by the 2 to 5 minute tail since 200 other repeaters just chunked with it. Sometimes the owner will get fed up and disconnect the link.

 

[IcomIcR20]

Heard on the Medflight talkgroup --

Medflight Unit: "I like turtles"
Dispatcher: "Alabama LifeSaver <unit #>, traffic was broken and unreadable, please readvise."

The traffic was most definitely not broken and unreadable For those not in-the-know, he is referencing this:

 

[krokus]

A few mins ago, on the local ambulance dispatch:
Patient accidentally to their dog's trazodone.

I have a few questions.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

A few mins ago, on the local ambulance dispatch:
Patient accidentally to their dog's trazodone.

I have a few questions.

Yeah right! Fido has been very depressed lately, has insomnia. Do you have anything for that?

 

[IC-R20]

A few mins ago, on the local ambulance dispatch:
Patient accidentally to their dog's trazodone.

I have a few questions.

I’m sure the ER staff did too lmao neither of which are cops/law enforcement and won’t rat you out. They just want to help you so it’s best to be honest about what you were dosing.

 

[Sweet330]

Ahoy~

So I poked around and really didn't see anything like this. (I could be a lazy poker...If that's the case, Moderators please let me know and move accordingly or delete and I can post there, just let me know)
So... Today (actually last Saturday, because Crowd Strike is no friend of mine right now) I heard this call come in to the local PD. "Campground Altercation" that escalated to a gentleman pulling out a chain saw to try and end the conversation. He ended up taking off. PD tacked him down and he stated he was "justified" Crack me up!! 😉. Anyway, that's my story for the "day"... what's yours?

 

[KC3ECJ]

Shoplifter nodding off in parking lot of gas station he just stole from.

 

[krokus]

A few minutes ago, on a county sheriff's dispatch:

Dispatch: I'm going to log you off; you signed in to cover ______ township.
Deputy: Sorry about that, I'm still waking up.
Dispatch: That's ok. I'm still drinking my coffee, too.

 

[TGuelker]

Dispatcher : Caller hears a smoke detector going off but does not see or smell smoke.

Responding officer : Construction down the street. Backup alarm on equipment confused with smoke detector alert.

 

[IC-R20]

Shoplifter nodding off in parking lot of gas station he just stole from.

That's why you take the fentanyl after you get back to the trailer park not before.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

Same reason I never scan HAME either, it’s nothing but kerchunking all the time holding up the scanner.

HAMS just seem to talk non stop about their radios so I seldom search over their bands. They don't even set up weather nets around here anymore during severe weather or at least a downplayed version of them.

 

[IC-R20]

HAMS just seem to talk non stop about their radios so I seldom search over their bands. They don't even set up weather nets around here anymore during severe weather or at least a downplayed version of them.

Yeah same, after the skywarn net guy for my area died in 2016 it's been pretty lacking since then. Now it's always just "check-in no traffic", odyssey of the last doctor's appointment, or yet another "testing" session of the radio. In the USA anyways, when I echolink to the UK or Australia the conversation is much better.

That said though there is a lot of weird spurious noise in 2m and sometimes 70cm, I can scan 150/450 no problem with the squelch on minimum but I always have to turn it up for amateur bands. I guess that's why the FCC still hasn't taken them away for commercial interests yet.

 

[CrabbyMilton]

That sounds very similar to what happened around here. I found out that one of the most prominent long time HAMS who could always be heard on there during severe weather passed away in the mid to late 10's. I was wondering why there was no severe weather nets anymore. Either that or one of them would just say the weather was bad and then continue with the "living room giggle session". We also have to remember that it's so much easier to text or email the weather info to the NWS now and view weather reports on your phone. There are still plenty of sources of weather reports on the scanner besides NOAA but interest in HAM radio doesn't seem to be what it was in the past.

 

[IC-R20]

That sounds very similar to what happened around here. I found out that one of the most prominent long time HAMS who could always be heard on there during severe weather passed away in the mid to late 10's. I was wondering why there was no severe weather nets anymore. Either that or one of them would just say the weather was bad and then continue with the "living room giggle session". We also have to remember that it's so much easier to text or email the weather info to the NWS now and view weather reports on your phone. There are still plenty of sources of weather reports on the scanner besides NOAA but interest in HAM radio doesn't seem to be what it was in the past.

Indeed, my local NWS stopped issuing spotter number and prefers to take reports through twitter now, which I have to admit is more convenient since you can show them photos and video of exactly what you're seeing and they can ask for followups directly. I took the SkyWarn course in 2020 through video conference. Which was also nice since there's never been any physical classes near me.

 

[KK4JUG]

And all this stuff is funny or odd because.........

 

[JethrowJohnson]

"MedFlight 6 - MedCom, I've got a story."

"Our patient is still a patient and does need transported, however weapons were drawn and the callers ran away, and now the police are on scene. So we'll be shutting down here for now and see if we're doing this thing."

MedCom: "That's quite a story."

MedFlight 6: "Normally I'd have a story about a man named Jed who barely kept his family fed."

MedCom: "🤣 Oh my goodness!"

 

[Osprey1163]

"MedFlight 6 - MedCom, I've got a story."

"Our patient is still a patient and does need transported, however weapons were drawn and the callers ran away, and now the police are on scene. So we'll be shutting down here for now and see if we're doing this thing."

MedCom: "That's quite a story."

MedFlight 6: "Normally I'd have a story about a man named Jed who barely kept his family fed."

MedCom: "🤣 Oh my goodness!"

Did NOT see that one coming! Of course, now that theme song is firmly entrenched in my brain. Guess that's better than when Shatner sings "Muskrat Love" in my brain all day.