Menards NXDN

[KB6AMF]

Does anyone know the frequencies and RAN for Menards? I know that most locations have upgraded to the NXDN protocol but I've had no luck finding the RAN's. I did see the current license and I found the five frequencies for fairborn, and I'm assuming the surrounding Dayton market, but I can't seem to find anything else. Radio traffic there is pretty minimal so maybe I just haven't heard anything because there's not much going on
Thanks
Chris
Kb6amf

 

[dryfb]

My local Menards is still analog and using older TK Kenwoods last I saw, but I noticed the newer NX1300s. I'll put them in my radios and see what I hear next time I'm there. I probably won't be able to get a RAN all that soon, but I can at least confirm if they're moving to NXDN and what frequencies Findlay uses. I think all or most Menards use the same freqs.

Page with the 4 Menards frequencies: Business (Minnesota) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

 

[KB6AMF]

I thought they did too, but then when I put the analog frequencies in, I got nothing. The license that has seven control points, one of them being Fairborn, my closest store. It sounds like certain regions use different sets of frequencies as they move into NXDN.

 

[mtindor]

Does anyone know the frequencies and RAN for Menards? I know that most locations have upgraded to the NXDN protocol but I've had no luck finding the RAN's. I did see the current license and I found the five frequencies for fairborn, and I'm assuming the surrounding Dayton market, but I can't seem to find anything else. Radio traffic there is pretty minimal so maybe I just haven't heard anything because there's not much going on
Thanks
Chris
Kb6amf

The frequencies below are all simplex, low power (4w) handhelds. Unless you are anywere close to the actual location, you likely will not hear anything. And you wouldn't need the RAN to listen to them. You could leave it as a wildcard / blank. Just make sure its set to digital. It's not a trunked system. Just standard NXDN simplex. It is highly unlikely that you would find something on those very same frequencies in the vicinity of Menards to interfere with you listening to them, thus the RAN isn't that important. If you do eventually pick up a transmission, then at that time the scanner / decoding software would show a RAN.

7	468.50000000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.27500000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.33750000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.36250000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.38750000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH

 

[wa8pyr]

The frequencies below are all simplex, low power (4w) handhelds. Unless you are anywere close to the actual location, you likely will not hear anything. And you wouldn't need the RAN to listen to them. You could leave it as a wildcard / blank. Just make sure its set to digital. It's not a trunked system. Just standard NXDN simplex. It is highly unlikely that you would find something on those very same frequencies in the vicinity of Menards to interfere with you listening to them, thus the RAN isn't that important. If you do eventually pick up a transmission, then at that time the scanner / decoding software would show a RAN.

7	468.50000000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.27500000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.33750000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.36250000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH
7	469.38750000	4K00F1W	MO	300	4.000	39.78586	-83.99264	FAIRBORN	GREENE	OH

Also check the corresponding 463/464 MHz repeater outputs. I wouldn’t put it past some dingbat programmer to mess it up.

 

[jsoergel]

I had them in a note from when I lived in an apartment on Dayton-Yellow Springs, but I think I must have deleted it. Freqs are correct as listed in the FCC database. I believe the RANs were sequential 1-5.