Intro (new member) and obervations/questions

[LMControl]

Hello all!

Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum and offer a great many thanks to all those (especially LarrySC) here for the great help you have provided in your postings.

After a few years of being a newbie, I finally jumped into the deep end and purchased a Pro-96 from the local 'Shack. I live in Greenville and have had great success with my new toy. There's so much to listen to and find. I will soon (hopefully) get down to Master's elect. and pick up that SC directory just to have a hard copy of local info.

From BJU to BMW and all the local digital traffic it sure is interesting to hear and see. I mostly listen to air traffic from downtown and GSP as well as Greenville area SD/PD/SCHP. Some commercial as well.

A few question do exist though....

What's the best way to setup your channel banks? By town or agency?
What's the optimum amount of control codes per bank? Any opinions?

Oh well, thanks for letting me ramble on and thanks again for the great content.

LMControl

P.S. BTW, I picked up some gypsy traffic early today I think. It sounded like a phone message being replayed over the channel. It was some guy returning a call about having some work done on his house. I got the freq. from LarrySC's gypsy site on Yahoo. Sweet!

 

[LarrySC]

Thanks for the kind words. I usually set up a local scanner this way.

0-Local only to where you live / or Pal 800 test mode
1-SC state angencies-HP-SLED-GAME-Rangers etc
2-North Command Sheriff-all FD's N and W of city + ems
3-South Command Sheriff-all FD's S and E of city + ems
4-City/Federal-ems-malls-LEC
5-Pickens/Anderson/Oconee or Spartanburg if you are on Greer side
6-Aircraft/or another county/or another trunking sys
7-Ham/or another county/or another trunking sys/ or NC
8-Palmetto 800/plus 800 simplex or single ch repeaters
9-Surveillance-frs-gmrs-murs-color code WT's- fm mics etc

EMS/Chopper in all banks.
Call # on back of directory and I'll offer help. Larry

 

[brian]

I set my PRO-96 up similar to Larry's.

I like for the banks to start with 1, so I do this:
0- Surveillance - FRS, GMRS, WTs, Mics
1- Spartanburg Public Safety
2- Spartanburg Local Gov't/Schools
3- Spartanburg Utilities
4- Spartanburg Business/Commercial
5- Greenville City/County
6- Cherokee/Union Cos.
7- WNC Border Cos (Polk, Rutherford, Henderson, Cleveland)
8- SC State Law Enforcement (Conventional only)
9- SC State Agencies (DNR, DHEC, P&R)

For talkgroups "sub-banks," I do this:
0- Spartanburg EMS/911
1- Spartanburg SD
3- SCHP Troop 3/4/2
4- SC State Agencies
5- Upstate Utilities

I also use v-folders quite a bit, and I've made separate configs for Greenville, Columbia, Charleston, Grand Strand, Beaufort/Lowcountry, WNC areas, etc.

For my Greenville Config, I separate Greenville Co and City into separate banks, and I add Anderson, Pickens, Oconee and Spartanburg as the surrounging counties. Surveillance, and 2 state banks stay the same from v-folder to v-folder.

Hope that helps.

Brian
Spartanburg

 

[LarrySC]

Sounds good. I have several PGM's for each make scanner. Not two of my customers want the same PGM. The way to PGM is by area or by service. BUT you would be surprised how some of the manual programs look when they give up and come to me. Really would make you cry. I suggested to the media they set up one older computer with software for their scanners so they could manage them. Know what they said.? Well know one wants to do it so we'll just pay you a retainer each year. Works for me.

 

[SC_Dave]

Hey Larry, may be a dumb question but under "Surveillance" you have;
frs-gmrs-murs-color code WT's- fm mics etc

Would you mind telling me what those are?
Thanks, David

 

[Caesar]

frs-gmrs-murs-color code WT's- fm mics etc

i am not certain on all, but my thoughts:

frs - Family Radio Service (i'm sure you know this)
gmrs - General Mobile Radio Service (i'm sure you knew this as well)
murs - Multi-Use Radio Service
color code - This is the Buss Radio, they use colors for channels
WT's - ???
fm mics - Fm tv mics? wireless mics?
etc

 

[brian]

Here's the list I use in my "Surveillance" bank:

• 
  FRS Ch. 1 462.5625
  FRS Ch. 2 462.5875
  FRS Ch. 3 462.6125
  FRS Ch. 4 462.6375
  FRS Ch. 5 462.6625
  FRS Ch. 6 462.6875
  FRS Ch. 7 462.7125
  FRS Ch. 8 467.5625
  FRS Ch. 9 467.5875
  FRS Ch. 10 467.6125
  FRS Ch. 11 467.6375
  FRS Ch. 12 467.6625
  FRS Ch. 13 467.6875
  FRS Ch. 14 467.7125
  DOT Red 151.6250
  DOT Purple 151.9550
  DOT Blue 154.5700
  DOT Green 154.6000
  GRMS 462.5500
  GRMS White 462.5750
  GRMS 462.6000
  GRMS Black 462.6250
  GRMS 462.6500
  GRMS Orange 462.6750
  GRMS 462.7000
  GRMS 462.7250
  DOT Brown 464.5000
  DOT Yellow 464.5500
  GRMS 467.5500
  DOT J 467.7625
  DOT K 467.8125
  DOT Silver 467.8500
  DOT Gold 467.8750
  DOT Red 467.9000
  DOT Blue 467.9250
  Brown Rev 469.5000
  Yellow Rev 469.5500
  MURS 151.7000
  MURS 151.7600
  MURS 151.8200
  MURS 151.8800
  MURS 151.9400
  Wireless Mic 169.4450
  Wireless Mic 169.5050
  Wireless Mic 170.2450
  Wireless Mic 170.3050
  Wireless Mic 171.0450
  Wireless Mic 171.1050
  Wireless Mic 171.8450
  Wireless Mic 171.9050

Sorry, I can't figure out how to get the formatting of the list to work any better.

Brian