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Hi all,

I'm heading to the Nascar race next weekend at MIS and I'm planning on bringing my BC250 along. Anyone know what site's frequencies would be my best bet to throw in the scanner? From looking at the list, it would seem that Adrian is closest to the speedway. I realize I'll have to listen to these freq's in conventional mode, but that's not a big deal. Does MSP use any conventional channels for special events such as this? Any simplex or mobile repeater freq's worth listening to? While I'm on the topic of the MIS area, if someone could point me to any other freq's of interest for the area (EMS, Fire, Sheriff's Dept etc etc) I would greatly appreciate it!!

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Thanks... I actually just found that page myself. I know from being there in the past I've seen a mixture of Jackson County and Lenawee County Sheriff's dept units around. Haven't been able to find any Lenawee County frequencies around yet though....
 

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The MIS is located just inside Lenawee County. However, since the parking area goes into Jackson County, they often assist Lenawee County.


In the past the Michigan State Police have operated a mobile command post on 155.865 MHz, which is the M.E.P.S.S. frequency.
This allows Jackson, Lenawee and MSP to all inter-communicate.


The local tower for the MSP TRS uses the following frequencies:

866.9250 867.4375 867.9375 868.4375, 868.9375


MSP may also use:

866.0125
866.5125
867.0125
867.5125
868.0125


Lenawee County Central Dispatch uses:

155.190 Dispatch PL 118.8
155.565 Secondary PL 118.8


Lenawee County Fire:

156.105 Dispatch PL 85.4
154.295 Fireground


EMS:

860.9625 Brooklyn area
155.295 MIS
155.280 Incident command


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Also, Skywarn repeaters:

145.370 - Lenawee County (85.4 Hz PL)
146.880 + Jackson County (100.0 Hz PL)
147.060 + Hillsdale County


Never know, you might need these freqs.


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Thanks very much! I've been going to MIS every June and August for better part of 20 years, but never really bothered to use the scanner for anything other than listening to the drivers and teams. Figure I might as well load up the public safety freq's and listen to the campground chaos that Friday and Saturday night usually brings :)
 

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You might want to program the FRS frequencies in also, they can get rather interesting.

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I've already got those programmed in :)

Everyone and their brother around the track and campgrounds has them these days it seems!
 

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Here is a list of frequencies that will be used for JCA, and LCA:

Speedway Dispatch-155.235
Lenawee Fireground-153.950
JCA & LCA-155.160
Car to Car-155.280
Lenawee Fire-154.430
Cambridge #2-154.980
Jackson Fire-154.130
Jacson Fireground-154.355
HVA-155.295
Lenawee Sheriff-155.190
Jackson Sheriff-155.595

Just thought I would pass this infromation on........this is for all you race fans.....have fun!

Eric-KB8UYC
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Thanks muchly! I'll add those to my scanner tonight... And off to MIS I go tomorrow! :)
 

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It's that time of year again! I'm heading back to MIS next weekend and I'm just wondering if the info above is still valid. Most of the activity in and around the campgrounds last year was on the MEPSS channel (there was a Sheriff's Dept bike nearby, and I stole a look at the display on his radio :)). Is this still expected to be the primary interagency channel for the area? Or have they perhaps migrated into the MSP system. I'll be bringing my Pro96 with me this time, so scanning should be a lot more enjoyable!

Thanks all for the helpful information....
 

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MSP is still the only agency in that area on MPSCS so I doubt they'd be linking anyone into it for this event...
 

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Thanks for the info... I'll just load in the info I had from last year then. Gotta love them v-scanner folders!! :)
 

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Forts said:
Gotta love them v-scanner folders!! :)

That is so true! It's so easy to load everything right into the scanner via software, than doing it all by hand, complete with alpha-tags. Where was this technology when I was a kid? :wink:

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Local race track frequencies

I video tape races at local race tracks and would like to use a raceiever so i know when the are going green after a caution is the any wher to get the radio freguencies for local tracl NOT MIS
 

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I video tape races at local race tracks and would like to use a raceiever so i know when the are going green after a caution is the any wher to get the radio freguencies for local tracl NOT MIS

10 year thread bump...

Which tracks are you looking for specifically? Do you want the specific track frequency for a scanner? I can help you out with Dixie and Owosso. If you're using the raceiver (which is what the drivers use and is separate from the track frequency), then you want 454.000. To my knowledge all of the tracks in mid-Michigan (Dixie, Owosso, Spartan, Auto City, Springport, etc.) all agreed to use that one frequency so drivers wouldn't have to buy multiple raceivers or have to constantly be reprogramming them or forgetting to.
 

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Tricity speedway in Auburn and I assume dixie since same company owns it, use 452.8625.

This is where having all the low power itinerant frequencies loaded in and be able to get retty much everything.

454.000 sounds like it is used by tracks to talk to drivers for cautions, black flags, violations, etc.?
 

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Tricity speedway in Auburn and I assume dixie since same company owns it, use 452.8625.

Two separate people own the tracks. Dixie is owned by a husband/wife team, and use 469.500 as their primary frequency. Tri-City is owned by a pair of brothers. When my company worked there, they rented their radios from us; not sure what they're doing now, but I'll go with the 452.8625.

454.000 sounds like it is used by tracks to talk to drivers for cautions, black flags, violations, etc.?

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Yep a couple years ago 469.5 CSQ was used by both tracks. A few weeks ago was when I did find the 452.8625 DPL 023
here's the license and listing a few more frequencies, haven't heard yet.
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/Uls...rHJkCVl!-1568652259!1902450820?licKey=3512550

Oh different owners hmmm I had understood when tricity was bought that was the Dixie management at the time bought it. oh well.
Found an article - New owner Steve Puvalowski hopes to bring Tri-City Speedway back to life | MLive.com

Side note I sure wish I would have went last Friday when Tony Stewart came back to race at tricity!
 
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