How Is Your Scanner Programmed?

[kellykeeton]

Redoing the banks on my PRO-97 again.
Bank 9 is Drive Thru frequencies that I've found. It's nice to have in the car; if the restaurant is using a high power system then you can hear what's taking so long. And it's fun to show off to the people I used to work with ("Look, I can listen to the Drive Thru on this!").

yea its always fun to listen to that stuff, "I SAID I WANT A NUMBER FOUR WITH EXTRA MAYO" "I heard you sir there is no need to yell"

mind posting your fast food for the area?

 

[cowboymike1971]

Those would be fun freqs. I second that. Care to post drive thru and business freqs?

 

[AtomicTaco]

yea its always fun to listen to that stuff, "I SAID I WANT A NUMBER FOUR WITH EXTRA MAYO" "I heard you sir there is no need to yell"

mind posting your fast food for the area?

I only have two at the moment for the Drive Thrus. My old store is McDonald's #2934. 1531 Auburn Way North, Auburn. It's a duplex system, but on the output you can hear both the car and the order taker (cashier). 464.0375 input / 469.0375 everything. I believe this is so because the microphone for the customer is in close proximity to the speaker for the customer. They use a Panasonic system with a vehicle sensor; the order taker can only hear what's going on if a car is present. The order taker units are Panasonic WX-C1020 and the base is a WX-C1010. An FCC ID search reveals that the OT units output at 0.002 watts and the base at 0.044 watts. From what I recall there were only two antennas; they were about the same size as the rubber duck on my Pro-97 but a bit thinner; they were hanging down from holes in the ceiling. It's surprising how far you can pick up the signal for such a weak transmitter. You can get an acceptable signal 2 blocks away; and with a fully open squetch you can sometimes discern words up to 6 blocks away. But what's REALLY strange is that I can pick up this signal--barely intelligible--AT HOME. And no, I don't live 3 blocks from the restaurant. It's about 2 miles as the crow flies; and I also live on a hill looking down into Auburn but still... I'm amazed I can pick up a signal that's less than a watt from that far away when I can't even hear my 1 watt FM transmitter in the next room.

Redondo McDonald's aka 27515 Pacific Hwy S (Federal Way) has the 3M headsets that operate in the 900MHz range. The 3M headsets put out only a tiny bit of power, because, as 3M says, this allows the battery to last longer. I can't pick up the singal prior to arriving at the COD (Customer Order Display (yes, I do still remember many of the McD acronyms)) but the frequency that I've detected is 921.9375. It's actually a little weak when I'm at the window next to the cashier.


As far as businesses go I have stuff from Intercept NW's database. One of my alltime favorites is FWPS Transportation (Bus) dispatch; 154.515 PL 114.8. I've long been interested (you could almost call it an obsession) with busses since I've been in school and it was really really really cool the first time I put this frequency into my scanner. One of the dispatchers, Jo, was my driver for two years before she was promoted to Dispatch.

I also have SeaTac Mall (or the Commons if you want to be correct) Security from the DB (464.775 PL 100). I haven't yet picked anything up on Emerald Down's channels; 462.125 and 467.125 but it is the off season right now so there won't be much traffic. I know that they use some sort of PL tones; I've also worked there and I remember they used portables. There are at least three channels that I knew of: security, housekeeping, and consessions/commissary (the stockroom more or less). Each portable had a channel switch at the top; one of the Leads frequently forgot to switch this when calling different people, resulting in the Commisary getting annoyed listening to her ask for housekeeping Found that in the ULS.

I put Auburn Schools in my scanner yesterday but didn't have it on to listen for any traffic. The four frequencies they have are 151.745, 151.835, 462.8875, and 467.8875. I think the DB listed some PL tones too.

Federal Way Public schools has a few frequencies as well; I couldn't tell you about any except for the above mentioned Transportation, but the frequencies are here, here and here. I'm pretty sure all of the high schools use portables; the junior highs probably do too; few, if any, of the elementary schools do. Thomas Jefferson uses 467.8375 and/or 466.1625 (PL unknown if applicable).

It's also worthwhile to mention that a big box hardware store also uses 467.8375. On a Sunday afternoon I had my scanner next to me at home and it stopped on "FWPS ? #6" but I heard "(tones) Customer assistance needed in the ___ area (tones)." The Auburn Lowes is the closes big box hardware store. I took my scanner down there one weekday and sat in my car and tuned in but didn't hear anything. I put my scanner on a fairly high volume, stuck it in my pocked and went inside and browsed for 20 minutes. I heard the tones playing on the house speakers but my scanner was silent. The rest is still a mystery.


Hopefully this looong post helped someone All of those unknowns are ones I hope to solve someday. Emerald Downs should be pretty easy; I'll just go down there sometime next year during live racing. Hopefully I'll solve some of the other mysteries; the FWPS ones are pretty interesting for me too. And I'm hoping I can expand and pick up some other businesses as well.

 

[cowboymike1971]

wow! awesome info! very detailed thanks..

 

[Wilrobnson]

I also have SeaTac Mall (or the Commons if you want to be correct) Security from the DB (464.775 PL 100). I haven't yet picked anything up on Emerald Down's channels; 462.125 and 467.125 but it is the off season right now so there won't be much traffic.

Let us know about Emerald Downs, will ya? I remember seeing one of their radios that had 16 channels marked on it. I've been meaning to make it a project, but haven't had the time yet.

It's also worthwhile to mention that a big box hardware store also uses 467.8375. On a Sunday afternoon I had my scanner next to me at home and it stopped on "FWPS ? #6" but I heard "(tones) Customer assistance needed in the ___ area (tones)." The Auburn Lowes is the closes big box hardware store. I took my scanner down there one weekday and sat in my car and tuned in but didn't hear anything. I put my scanner on a fairly high volume, stuck it in my pocked and went inside and browsed for 20 minutes. I heard the tones playing on the house speakers but my scanner was silent. The rest is still a mystery.

I know the Home Depot on Kent's East Hill uses 467.8375 with a dpl of 263.

 

[AtomicTaco]

I know the Home Depot on Kent's East Hill uses 467.8375 with a dpl of 263.

Aha! I always forget about East Hill. In fact, Home Depot would make sense for two reasons:
1) Home Depot licenses that frequency for many of its stores, as I've seen in the ULS.
2) East hill is not that far from me. In fact, if I look out the window, I can see Valcom's tower.

And I will definitely post about EmD; 16 channels does sound right from what I remember about the radios.

 

[Stavro35]

I don't see anyone mentioning that they listen to coast guard or military aviation .
As large as this region is compared to my old hometown. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of coast guard activity. Probably because my old hometown was a "beach community,tourist destination..

 

[AtomicTaco]

Regarding Emerald Downs--
I've been hearing some sort of tire pickup service on 462.125. Turns out it's Gary Nelson, Inc. From what I hear they have multiple trucks throughout Puget Sound delivering and picking up auto parts, mostly tires. It's off a "community repeater" (whatever that is; I assume it's a repeater that someone owns and rents out to others) on Tiger. Gary Nelson seems to be using a PL tone of 151.4. The problem is the repeater is licensed for an ERP of 640 watts; which is a pretty darn strong signal down here. If only my Pro-97 had a way to ignore certain PL tones...

 

[hammyhamham]

I just got a pro 46 REALISTIC scanner at a yard sale for 12 bucks i live in burien and need help with some frequency numbers or codes so i can enjoy my buy> can any one help me!!

 

[Stavro35]

Codes,numbers?

I just got a pro 46 REALISTIC scanner at a yard sale for 12 bucks i live in burien and need help with some frequency numbers or codes so i can enjoy my buy> can any one help me!!

Do you mean frequencies and codes used by police and fire? All the frequencies you need are here in the data base.As well as talkgroups. As for the codes they use,good luck.

 

[Wilrobnson]

New lineup-

Bedside scanner not used anymore.

PSR500-
List 1- Mutual aid stuff and a few mystery freqs (always on)
List 2- Local VHF channels, not used anymore but you never know, and Pierce Transit's 700mhz TRS.
List 3- Fort Lewis 380 TRS Site 1 Simulcast
List 4- McChord AFB UHF TRS, Milair
List 5- Boeing TRS wide-area system
List 6- Tacoma TRS
List 7- Open
List 8- Open
List 9- Site 2 of the regional 380 mhz TRS (Gold Mtn wide area)
List 10- IWN TRS Site 108- Grass Mtn
List 11- Fort Lewis 380 TRS Site 2 West fill
List 12- Fort Lewis 380 TRS Site 3 East fill
List 18- Forest fire bank (NIFC, DNR, etc)
List 19- Countywide freqs for local PDs, Sheriff and Fire
List 20- Puyallup TRS

 

[lowboy654]

I just got a pro 46 REALISTIC scanner at a yard sale for 12 bucks i live in burien and need help with some frequency numbers or codes so i can enjoy my buy> can any one help me!!

Welcome to RR.com Please don't bring up a old thread, this one is over 8 months old and don't ask the same thing in more then one thread, for a question like this you should just start a new thread ask it one time and wait for your answer . any how everything that you have asked about can be found with a little leg work on your part, frequency"s can be found here just click on this .
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?stid=53
find the county that you want to know about.... and in the upper left hand side of the page is the codes if we have it look under files. they can also be found under Related Links.