I've been getting bored with monitoring public safety lately. It's active but very limited in information or details.
So I fired up an ICOM IC-R8600 and started monitoring Selfridge Air National Guard activity again. 2m & 70cm is almost dead around here. There is a 440 DMR repeater but the R8600 doesn't have DMR as one of it's digital modes. FRS/GMRS/MURS are pretty dead also. There are some guys operating a GMRS repeater but I can't seem to be able to find them lately.
Maybe if you are an amateur radio operator in the area you could tip me off with some frequencies and their scheduled nets that are sometimes very interesting to monitor.
I'm too far from the lakes/rivers to monitor marine activity, and railroads seem almost nonexistent these days. Anything else, any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill
NOTE: The IC-R8600 decodes various digital protocol signals including P25 (Phase 1), NXDN™, dPMR™, D-STAR, Japanese DCR (Digital Convenience Radio) as well as receives conventional analog signals such as USB, LSB, FSK, CW, AM, S-AM (Synchronous-AM), FM and WFM modes, covering 10kHz to 3GHz wideband in 1Hz steps.
So I fired up an ICOM IC-R8600 and started monitoring Selfridge Air National Guard activity again. 2m & 70cm is almost dead around here. There is a 440 DMR repeater but the R8600 doesn't have DMR as one of it's digital modes. FRS/GMRS/MURS are pretty dead also. There are some guys operating a GMRS repeater but I can't seem to be able to find them lately.
Maybe if you are an amateur radio operator in the area you could tip me off with some frequencies and their scheduled nets that are sometimes very interesting to monitor.
I'm too far from the lakes/rivers to monitor marine activity, and railroads seem almost nonexistent these days. Anything else, any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill
NOTE: The IC-R8600 decodes various digital protocol signals including P25 (Phase 1), NXDN™, dPMR™, D-STAR, Japanese DCR (Digital Convenience Radio) as well as receives conventional analog signals such as USB, LSB, FSK, CW, AM, S-AM (Synchronous-AM), FM and WFM modes, covering 10kHz to 3GHz wideband in 1Hz steps.
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