Happy Wednesday Day, All...
Been listening to Indy 500 related, IMS +IndyCar + Media freqs this week in order to tweak the radioLAB situation from office & garage in Broad Ripple plus prepping BCD 436HP scanner, ID-51 HT, ID-5100s and RE 3000s for a week of fun including at track raceday. Even managed a couple of near-field drivebys as part of business travel to compare with fixed receive using yagis and verticals.
Using the RR and IndyCar references plus past known IMS Ops, ABC OPS/Broadcast, WRTV, etc. as the sample lot along with band scanning.
Some highlights....
1) Many active commercial (IMS and Media) and race team related stations during the weekend quals; intermittent with early am and late afternoon network updates Mon-Wed so far.
2) What seemed like mock flyover / simulation on Monday mid-day noted on UNICOM and Speedway Tower (Air) with reference to "mock fly-by" approach to IMS (cut to IND freqs with related notices to regular traffic +/- simulating protocol with military coordination??).
3) All the driver freqs published via IndyCar update have only been active with non-analog digital squawks until today around noon when a couple of driver freqs went analog. Do they usually do this? I dont' seem to recall so little analog on these driver freqs.
4) IMS Tower testing this afternoon.
Anybody else monitoring?
What are you hearing?
Where are the updates from other listeners?
Surprised there was little to none in terms of posts on any of the popular web forums referencing RF activity for this 2017 Indy 500 Spectacle.
Happy to share freqs and files (RT system format & CSV) with anyone else to compare & refresh database for this year's Indy 500... BTW, I'll be finished with programming by mid-day Friday as the festivities begin then onto race focused listening and maybe a few simplex QSOs at the track.
Best Regards,
-cognetic
Been listening to Indy 500 related, IMS +IndyCar + Media freqs this week in order to tweak the radioLAB situation from office & garage in Broad Ripple plus prepping BCD 436HP scanner, ID-51 HT, ID-5100s and RE 3000s for a week of fun including at track raceday. Even managed a couple of near-field drivebys as part of business travel to compare with fixed receive using yagis and verticals.
Using the RR and IndyCar references plus past known IMS Ops, ABC OPS/Broadcast, WRTV, etc. as the sample lot along with band scanning.
Some highlights....
1) Many active commercial (IMS and Media) and race team related stations during the weekend quals; intermittent with early am and late afternoon network updates Mon-Wed so far.
2) What seemed like mock flyover / simulation on Monday mid-day noted on UNICOM and Speedway Tower (Air) with reference to "mock fly-by" approach to IMS (cut to IND freqs with related notices to regular traffic +/- simulating protocol with military coordination??).
3) All the driver freqs published via IndyCar update have only been active with non-analog digital squawks until today around noon when a couple of driver freqs went analog. Do they usually do this? I dont' seem to recall so little analog on these driver freqs.
4) IMS Tower testing this afternoon.
Anybody else monitoring?
What are you hearing?
Where are the updates from other listeners?
Surprised there was little to none in terms of posts on any of the popular web forums referencing RF activity for this 2017 Indy 500 Spectacle.
Happy to share freqs and files (RT system format & CSV) with anyone else to compare & refresh database for this year's Indy 500... BTW, I'll be finished with programming by mid-day Friday as the festivities begin then onto race focused listening and maybe a few simplex QSOs at the track.
Best Regards,
-cognetic