Newfoundland Stuff

[Jay911]

Greetings all,

I fired in some updates for the province-wide EDACS system as well as conventional stuff for the RCMP further away from St John's. (I traveled all over the eastern half of the province and found no trunking CC's, EDACS or otherwise, between Clarenville and Lewisporte.)

North Atlantic's refinery at CBC has a Motorola trunk (793f), and as well, I picked up another Type I or Type II control channel in the same region. However it doesn't appear to be licensed for any places on the island itself.. the closest I could find was Lab City, IIRC. Unitrunker found system 240f had a control channel of 858.3375. I didn't have time to stay and sleuth out the system - I was trying to catch up with the rally at that point.

I didn't submit 240f to the DB because I have so little information about it. If any of you guys with trunking scanners and/or Unitrunker/Trunker stuff are able, you might want to drive past the CBC refinery on #1 and see if you pick anything up.

The MPT system in St Johns and the Bell Canada system (2b0b) were also extensively monitored. The MPT system seems to be for Transit and relies heavily on I-calls, to borrow a term. I caught one use of a talkgroup (6001, IIRC) but it was rather brief. The system seems to send two- or three-letter status codes almost constantly. I'm suspecting it might be buses reporting when they stop at each stop?

2b0b is a heavily used Type IIi system with taxis and other services noted. I logged a lot of audio with ARC396 and will try to submit talkgroup IDs when able.

All my scanning was done with two radios: A BCD396T with a Diamond SRH77CA whip for voice traffic, and a BC245XLT with half of a RS aluminum telescoping whip (it broke) for trunk control channel monitoring.

 

[robsterw]

Hey hey Jay!

As a fellow Newfoundlander, I thank you for the wonderful work you've done here
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I know that North Atlantic radio system looks rather large in the TAFL.

The transit system really consists of just a bus company, called Metrobus. Not "St. John's transportation Commission" as it says in the RR DB.
That's the oversight name which never gets used by locals.

They can be found at http://metrobus.com/ & Some fun photos can be seen here too http://www.angelfire.com/on4/ontario/metrobus.html

You can track buses in near real time on their site using "Find My Bus" ; It uses Google Maps with a moving icon of the intended route.

Example:
ROUTE 01-2 LOCATION DATA SHOWN ABOVE AS OF 9/18/2007 6:23:00 PM
CURRENT SPEED: 3 MPH
CURRENT DIRECTION: NE
3 MINS BEHIND AS OF 9/18/2007 6:23:00 PM AT UC

Maybe it's just a ghetto (or advanced?) solution to using a GPS.

As for the cabbies and such. IMHO They are the most amusing part of the whole scanning deal here in town. Most notably the municipal workers. All of 'em are jokers on the radio 24 hours a day.

I hope you enjoyed their fun antics. Sorry to hear about your broken scanner antenna. It's rough getting around here in some places.

 

[Jay911]

You can track buses in near real time on their site using "Find My Bus" ; It uses Google Maps with a moving icon of the intended route.

That is slick. That has to be what I was tracking. I think I have some logs of it in my Trunkview folder - I'll check it later.

Sorry to hear about your broken scanner antenna. It's rough getting around here in some places.

Eh, it was broken before I left, but thanks for the sentiment anyway, considering WestJet snapped my tripod nearly in half in checked baggage. Came out of that on the plus side, too - bought a replacement (better) tripod at Canadian Tire in St. John's, and then "rented" it to Global Television (they needed it, I lent it, they handed me $) when they got to a stage without theirs. Paid for itself pretty much!

As for the antenna, I had already ordered a bunch of RH-77CA's (BNC version of the SRH-77CA, which is SMA for the 396) to put on my various handhelds at home. Much better than the junk I'm using now.

 

[Jay911]

Here's some audio clips of the telemetry that was on talkgroups 16448, 16452, 16454, 16455, 16456, 16465, 16466, and 16528 (which my spreadsheet tells me is Type I 200-0 in size S4, 9, 10, 11, or 12).

I compared this to the digital info page we all know (k9bud I think) and came up blank, so anyone got any ideas?

2b0b Unknown Data Samples (1713kb zip file)

 

[scanner10]

scanner freg for newfoundland

just woundering if enyone has the fregs for newfoundland power i have a BCD396 scanner not picking up fregs for this company picking up many other fregs but not this one not sure why. thanks

 

[mciupa]

just woundering if enyone has the fregs for newfoundland power i have a BCD396 scanner not picking up fregs for this company picking up many other fregs but not this one not sure why. thanks

Hi scanner10,

try these from an old directory and see if any work, if they do, please submit them to the database

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]156.275 Newfoundland Light and Power
156.500 Newfoundland Light and Power
157.680 Newfoundland Light and Power
158.250 Newfoundland Light and Power
158.370 Newfoundland Light and Power
158.430 Newfoundland Light and Power
159.180 Newfoundland Light and Power
159.630 Newfoundland Light and Power
166.830 Newfoundland Light and Power
167.250 Newfoundland Light and Power
167.940 Newfoundland Light and Power
170.010 Newfoundland Light and Power
170.190 Newfoundland Light and Power
170.220 Newfoundland Light and Power
170.340 Newfoundland Light and Power
170.490 Newfoundland Light and Power
172.290 Newfoundland Light and Power
172.530 Newfoundland Light and Power
414.0125 Newfoundland Light and Power
414.1875 Newfoundland Light and Power
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[Jay911]

NL Hydro is supposedly on the GNL trunk system, which is an LTR Passport system.

Government of Newfoundland & Labrador (GNL) Transportation Trunking System, Provincewide, Newfoundland and Labrador - Scanner Frequencies

When I was driving all over the eastern half of Newfoundland (from St. John's to Lewisporte and back) last September, I heard nothing on these frequencies with either my 396XT or my PSR-500.