Is this worth submitting to the DB?

[HandiScratchy]

I was working from home today and thought it would be fun to run a trunking discovery to learn more about it. I've done conventional discovery a few times but overall I'm pretty new to this aspect of scanning. I chose the Fort Mill Fleettalk System and have been getting hits from Talk Group 276. It is clearly a school bus operation and they are talking about Fort Mill Schools. The database shows district 4 buses on a conventional channel. This is an NXDN transmission. I searched Fleettalk Carolinas NC and SC for TG276 but didn't find anything on those pages either.

Am I misunderstanding what the scanner is telling me?
Is it something you would submit to the DB? If not what more info would be needed to make it worthy?

Here's the District 4 data from the DB:

Frequency	License	Type	Tone	Alpha Tag	Description	Mode	Tag
151.715	WQEV764	M	107.2 PL	FMill HS 151	Fort Mill High School	FM	Schools
152.930	WQEV764	RM	251 DPL	FMill HS 152	Fort Mill High School	FM	Schools
150.920	WQCC883	RM	131.8 PL	Ft Mill Schl	Fort Mill School District	FM	Schools
462.200	WPNS767	RM	127.3 PL	Buses	School District Bus Transportation	FM	Schools
152.435	WQFD721	R	186.2 PL	Springfld ES	Springfield Elementary School	FM	Schools
150.860	WQCB733	RM		Springfld MS	Springfield Middle School	FM	Schools

 

[brian]

If you monitor the frequency 462.200, do you hear anything? If so, does it sound like buses?

Many of the conventional listings in the database are old, and agencies have transitioned to other radio systems or other modes over time. Because the RadioReference database is "crowd-sourced", it depends on information from hobbyist listeners about whether old listings are no longer used. If that information isn't submitted, then those listings remain.

Fleettalk is commonly used by bus services throughout the area, so it would not be surprising if that's what the Fort Mill school buses are using. You're doing the correct thing by listening and trying to pin down locations. If you're confident in the use of the talkgroup, you are encouraged to submit it. At the same time, to avoid duplicate listings from the same agency, if you can verify that the conventional channel is no longer used for that purpose, we can mark it as "deprecated" and it will drop off the listing.

 

[HandiScratchy]

Thanks @brian. I will monitor 462.200 Friday or Monday and follow your direction. I just received a second scanner yesterday so I can monitor both simultaneously now.