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Viper43

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Anyone have any frequencies for Kentucky Speedway? I'll be there Aug 11th for the IRL race
This past weekend the Kentucky Speedway jet blowers were at ORPI for the three nights of racing. The crews were kept busy Friday night trying to dry the track for the CTS race and they finally got the race going at almost 10:30pm ..... it was a long day!

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Try these:

This is the KSP outpost when it is in use:
154.815/159.030 STATE POLICE MOBILE RADIO & MOBILE REPEATER STATIONS

This is what I have for the "company" freq:
KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY LLC WPPA638 462.32500/467.32500
KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY LLC WPPG832 462.45000/467.45000

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nofdexplorer406 said:
I know Yellow EMS Covers the Kentucky Speedway as far as Medical Emergencys and Transports there freqs are located on louisville (jefferson) county page

While the frequencies are true for the Louisville area, they are on repeater and the coverage is not adequate enough to provide service out there. There are working on sometype of internal Speedway channel so that they can talk to everyone else. I am almost sure. Also, last time I was out there( at least a yr or 2 ago) Jefferson County Sheriffs Deputies were working as well.

I am going to try and go that weekend as well.
 

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Going to try and take 2 scanners if I go. One for racing and one for monitoring....Be looking like a tech nerd...My pocket protector, taped up glasses and checked shorts......LOL
 

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Unfortunately I'll be too busy taking pictures during the race to locate frequencies, but I may be able to find a few before hand. I'm shooting the race for a local paper here.

Thanks for all the replies, and places to start, your Kentucky group has been very helpful! Nice job again folks. :)

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Well the trip was interesting to say the least. The writers were late which made me late. In fact we got there 1 1/2 hour before the race started so I didn't have time to play with the scanners or 2m HT. I did have the 2m on scanning the ham stuff and a scanner scanning race stuff the whole night.
The track is awesome, a very nice clean facility and the staff is great, security didn't hassel me no matter where I went (maybe having that orange photographers vest helped) , but the security went out of it's way to help everyone. One fan who hurt his back couldn't walk down to his seat so they set up chairs for him and his buddies in the handicapped seating, even chasing chairs down for the foursome. Then as I left the media center that night a security guy opened the door for me and said "have good safe trip home". The only time I hear nice stuff out of the yellow shirts at Indy is from those I have known for years. The Kentucky Speedway crew was first class all the way :)

I was surprised though at the Guard security, in fatigues and using 800mhz radios that were under their uniform, the only thing you could see was the earpiece. LOL, he was checking out all my radios, two cell phones, two scanners and my ICOM V82 HT, plus all my other gear, Canon 1D MKII N camera, 70-200 len and 400mm lens .... I don't travel light :)
I didn't notice any deputies, I did see State Police so the deputies may have been the guys in plain clothes I saw. Kind of odd to me though was I didn't see any of the ATF or US Marshals I am accustomed to seeing at the Indy 500 or Brickyard 400. It's probably due to the size of the crowd though, 200,000 to 400,000 vs 50,000 that accounts for their appearance at Indy.

Thanks for the help, all the info helped and I had a great time, and waiting for next years race to go back :)

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As far as in-track operations, KySpeedway uses assigned frequencies, as are in the database, from NASCAR, IRL, or any other sanctioning body. These could possibly change from year to year & from race to race. The speedway itself has frequencies licensed to them for general administration, maintenance, safety, etc. I will confirm these next time im there.

Law enforcement is provided by detail officers from KSP, KVE, area SO & PD's & they use area talkaround channels for their use & security. I will confirm these as well.

I know the local FD's use a simplex talkaround channel while there as well which i will attempt to find.
 
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