newbie programing a new radio

[c_b_mazur]

I know the primary answer to the question is going to be different for every location. What I am asking is, have you as an experienced ham, come across an absolute must have frequency that you have discovered and want to share. I know being here in NW Iowa I won't be able to get your primary channel up there in the PNW or hit that NYC repeater chat. But what have you discovered in your travels and elder knowledge to be a must have in a radio. Mind you I do have the National 70cm and 2m call channels programed. But I am sure I have overlooked something. I have also added Local repeaters, slightly further repeaters, The ISS, Local Dispatch frequencies to monitor, 90+ mile repeaters, and the national storm chase freq, and some odd ball frequencies that I utilize. Just kind of looking for those gems now.

 

[KQ4ZVY]

If your radio lets you do something like scan for activity between two memory frequencies, it might be useful to look up the edges of your region's band agreement for repeaters and store those.

 

[rf_patriot200]

Your scanners Search function is your friend !

 

[ka3jjz]

Asking in the Iowa forum would be a better idea....

Iowa Radio Discussion Forum

Forum for discussing Radio Information in the State of Iowa.

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Mike

 

[c_b_mazur]

Asking in the Iowa forum would be a better idea....

Iowa Radio Discussion Forum

Forum for discussing Radio Information in the State of Iowa.

forums.radioreference.com

Mike

I plan on that as well. Also hitting up the local guys and groups. I kinda wanted a nation wide idea of what is out there to maybe throw in the list and scan while traveling.

 

[KB3KBR]

APRS 144.390 100Hz PL tone. https://www.aprs.org/VoiceAlert3.html

 

[jjhendo]

I know the primary answer to the question is going to be different for every location. What I am asking is, have you as an experienced ham, come across an absolute must have frequency that you have discovered and want to share. I know being here in NW Iowa I won't be able to get your primary channel up there in the PNW or hit that NYC repeater chat. But what have you discovered in your travels and elder knowledge to be a must have in a radio. Mind you I do have the National 70cm and 2m call channels programed. But I am sure I have overlooked something. I have also added Local repeaters, slightly further repeaters, The ISS, Local Dispatch frequencies to monitor, 90+ mile repeaters, and the national storm chase freq, and some odd ball frequencies that I utilize. Just kind of looking for those gems now.

FRS/GMRS/MURS?

 

[K7MH]

When traveling, I just scan the 2 or 440 FM frequency range in "programmed scanning". Mostly I program just the freq range that the repeaters are in. There are just far too many repeaters out there to program them all and you can never know in any given area what repeater frequencies are (along with the various tones they may use) commonly in use or just what is active enough to bother with.

I scan about 55 programmed frequencies here in Seattle in the evening. There is regular activity on only 3 or 4 of those repeaters, mostly evening nets. This isn't the 70s when there were busy repeaters all day long!!

 

[D31245]

I have a bank in my scanner dedicated to NIFOG frequencies in case of a major incident:

National Interoperability (United States) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for National Interoperability (United States)

www.radioreference.com