Houston Metro Conventional and Paging?

[tcarro15]

Looking into this for a friend; Are there any paging / patch conventional V/UHF/800 in the HTX Metro that are clear and open that do not require a digital scanner?

Obviously there's plenty listed in the DB, but I haven't been down there in a couple years and haven't tried to check all those listed. I have a friend in the area with some older analog scanners looking to listen to whatever.

Thanks!

 

[EAFrizzle]

Depending on your location, you may be able to get some of the UHF fire and ems dispatches. There's very little VHF in Harris and surrounding counties now. Most is in counties further north on I-69n and they're rapidly going to p25 conventional or TxWARN.

Railroads are always busy in Houston, as is civil air. 123.025 is the helicopter air to air frequency, and is the local helo control frequency. It can get really interesting at night. Business V/U conventional tends to be low-power, small-coverage stuff, so it's more location dependent than rail and air.

Public Safety stuff will soon be all digital/trunked in the Houston area, but rail and air are good ways to keep an analog scanner useful. There's a very good chance that you'll hear about high water crossings from the railroads before anyone else reports it. That's always useful in Houston.

 

[EAFrizzle]

Montgomery county had some very good VHF simulcast repeaters for fire and ems, but with the plans for MontCo to encrypt fire and ems on TxWARN probably spells the end for those.

 

[tcarro15]

Depending on your location, you may be able to get some of the UHF fire and ems dispatches. There's very little VHF in Harris and surrounding counties now. Most is in counties further north on I-69n and they're rapidly going to p25 conventional or TxWARN.

Railroads are always busy in Houston, as is civil air. 123.025 is the helicopter air to air frequency, and is the local helo control frequency. It can get really interesting at night. Business V/U conventional tends to be low-power, small-coverage stuff, so it's more location dependent than rail and air.

Public Safety stuff will soon be all digital/trunked in the Houston area, but rail and air are good ways to keep an analog scanner useful. There's a very good chance that you'll hear about high water crossings from the railroads before anyone else reports it. That's always useful in Houston.

This is what I surmised. Thanks for the info!