Well, you could monitor the low band. I know that Troop C simulcasts the Station VIPER calls on the station to car frequency.
Or, perhaps, the station to car on VIPER, not sure which way it goes.
There should be a list of the low band freqs in the data base.
Ronnie
Ronnie: The Low band frequencies only transmit the Dispatcher to the Car. That is only half of the transmission. The days of Low band being useful as a monitoring target have long passed.
Drafin is correct: You need a digital capable trunking scanner to be able to monitor the SHP these days. That is the correct answer.
Marshall KE4ZNR
Ronnie: The Lowband frequencies only transmit the Dispatcher to the Car. That is only half of the transmission. The days of Lowband being useful as a monitoring target have long passed.
Drafin is correct: You need a digital capable trunking scanner to be able to monitor the SHP these days. That is the correct answer.
Marshall KE4ZNR
Ronnie: The Lowband frequencies only transmit the Dispatcher to the Car. That is only half of the transmission. The days of Lowband being useful as a monitoring target have long passed.
I wish that were true in all Troops/Districts. In my area, the H4 (Cleveland) cars use Viper almost exclusively while the next county over (Gaston) is the reverse. They use low-band to communicate with dispatch 90% of the time.
Ronnie: The Lowband frequencies only transmit the Dispatcher to the Car. That is only half of the transmission. The days of Lowband being useful as a monitoring target have long passed.
Marshall KE4ZNR
If the powers that be would approve, especially now that most every comm center is running some instances of Moto 5000 / 7000 series consoles, then those simulcasted low band and viper tgs could be patched for both station to car and car to station low band traffic. Not that there's a lot of life left in low band.
Just dropping my 0.2 cents worth.
NwJ
Ronnie: The Lowband frequencies only transmit the Dispatcher to the Car. That is only half of the transmission. The days of Lowband being useful as a monitoring target have long passed.
I wish that were true in all Troops/Districts. In my area, the H4 (Cleveland) cars use Viper almost exclusively while the next county over (Gaston) is the reverse. They use low-band to communicate with dispatch 90% of the time.
As they continue to build out, I'm sure that is what you'll see. It's coming. Only a matter of time.
And for what it's worth, the word is that there's no low band simulcast at all in Troop A. After several trips through that area with the good old low band MaraTrac in scan mode, and nothing heard outside of some adjacent troop traffic and a rare car-to-car simplex or two, I'd say the word is correct.