I am up and running on a different scanner now, and would like to know if Metrolinx has a tower site in Peterborough. I found a frequency which I believe to be the CC, but I never get anything out of it. Is there anything I am missing ?
Metrolinx - GO Transit Trunking System, Golden Horseshoe Area, Ontario - Scanner FrequenciesI am up and running on a different scanner now, and would like to know if Metrolinx has a tower site in Peterborough. I found a frequency which I believe to be the CC, but I never get anything out of it. Is there anything I am missing ?
Put these frequencies into your scanner for the Peterborough tower and set your scanner to scan that tower if your seeing (dat) then your close enough to the tower to receive this system, I am in Fort Erie and can't pick up any of the towers so I don't listen to this system.Steve are you able to give a few pointers on the scanner we both have ? BC396T, I am technologically impaired and up the creek with no paddle on this one.
Can't help you with this problem, as I said I do not listen to this system. I can not pick it up down in Fort Erie but there are many people out there that listen to this system that can help you, I am sure someone will post an answer for you. Also try the other towers and see if you can pick up any of them,Success with your method ! I am noticing something odd, however. A channel keeps flickering quickly across the screen during scan mode, and I can see the control channel frequency change quickly back and forth as well. It jumps from the normal 410.- to a high 860mhz frequency. Any known reason for this ? I have a feeling this is interrupting transmissions but I am not too sure.
Any idea on the band plan I'd need ? Or how to find out ? I'm desperate, because the only Metrolinx I get right now is the odd DRT small talk wishing each other a nice weekend. I would be indebted to you for life sir, if you could kindly help a noob scanner out.Your scanner most likely needs a Custom Band plan for UHF entered into it. Once that is done you can listen to all but GO Bus.
Can't help at the moment, I'm at work but will take a look at my Freescan file later. It sounds like you have it programmed okay if you are receiving DRT.Any idea on the band plan I'd need ? Or how to find out ? I'm desperate, because the only Metrolinx I get right now is the odd DRT small talk wishing each other a nice weekend. I would be indebted to you for life sir, if you could kindly help a noob scanner out.
That's what I was afraid of. It looks like Metrolinx is a boring scan out my way. Makes me wonder why they need a tower out here? And why the heck would I be getting DRT at all, let alone just them. They do not service Peterborough, obviously. Thanks for the reply though, it was quicker than I expected....It sounds like you have it programmed okay if you are receiving DRT.
Any reason that I would have got GO Barrie one time, and never again, from my current location? Also, how would a DRT unit hit a Peterborough tower, the closest they go is Oshawa, about 50 clicks away at least.They likely roam onto that tower, given their location.
GO Transit services Trent University and Peterborough, so that is why they need service there.
That suggests enhanced propagation. Was this in the early morning hours? That's the usualAny reason that I would have got GO Barrie one time, and never again, from my current location? Also, how would a DRT unit hit a Peterborough tower, the closest they go is Oshawa, about 50 clicks away at least.
DRT services, Port Perry, Bowmanville and I believe even Beaverton.. all of those places are not that far from Peterborough.Any reason that I would have got GO Barrie one time, and never again, from my current location? Also, how would a DRT unit hit a Peterborough tower, the closest they go is Oshawa, about 50 clicks away at least.
Damn it, so I'm never going to get it again basically ?That suggests enhanced propagation. Was this in the early morning hours? That's the usual
time much of this happens. Recently I heard a Moto 850MHz control channel on 852.3625
rarely heard at this location, albiet at 2:30 am (couldn't sleep that night...). It was
Clinton Cty NY (3A34) near Plattsburgh. Similar things happen on 400MHz.
Dave