Hi - I have listened to the KOMO feed and this one (Seattle Police, Fire and EMS Live Scanner Audio Feed) for quite a while and decided to get my own scanner, a Pro-164, to see what else there is to listen to around here. I'm in North Seattle and so far I've gotten a lot of the SPD talkgroups, been able to lock out that obnoxious automated "aid response on channel 5" robot (worth the whole price right there!) and found some other stuff. I've done a lot of reading about the radio (not totally comfortable though) and the system, but still have a bunch of questions. I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with a few things:
1. Does anyone know what the actual talkgroups are on the KOMO feed, and on the RR #220 feed (above)?
2. Is there any way on this scanner to set up a bank/channel that has only a few specific talkgroups? So far I've had to allow the radio to find everything on the control channel, and lock out all the ones I don't want to hear, which is a lot of lockouts.
3. I started out by adding 851.41250a as a frequency, which is the blue one for 'seattle simulcast' - is there any reason I should add or use any of the other freqs listed in that list?
4. I tried adding 867.86250a which is listed as 'King County/ValleyCom Simulcast', but it doesn't seem to get any reception. Someone posted a thread from Shoreline which is just north of me and was told to start with that one, and he seemed to get it. Is my antenna maybe not good enough to get that, or should I try the other freqs in the list, or what could be going on there?
5. Does anyone know of anything else interesting to listen to around here that wouldn't be found on the seattle simulcast trunking system? Right now that is all I have scanning, but there must be other interesting signals.
Thanks a lot for a great forum - I remember reading this site way back when I was trying to figure out an old (IIRC) AR-1000. It's doing well and lots more info now! Congrats to the community.
1. Does anyone know what the actual talkgroups are on the KOMO feed, and on the RR #220 feed (above)?
2. Is there any way on this scanner to set up a bank/channel that has only a few specific talkgroups? So far I've had to allow the radio to find everything on the control channel, and lock out all the ones I don't want to hear, which is a lot of lockouts.
3. I started out by adding 851.41250a as a frequency, which is the blue one for 'seattle simulcast' - is there any reason I should add or use any of the other freqs listed in that list?
4. I tried adding 867.86250a which is listed as 'King County/ValleyCom Simulcast', but it doesn't seem to get any reception. Someone posted a thread from Shoreline which is just north of me and was told to start with that one, and he seemed to get it. Is my antenna maybe not good enough to get that, or should I try the other freqs in the list, or what could be going on there?
5. Does anyone know of anything else interesting to listen to around here that wouldn't be found on the seattle simulcast trunking system? Right now that is all I have scanning, but there must be other interesting signals.
Thanks a lot for a great forum - I remember reading this site way back when I was trying to figure out an old (IIRC) AR-1000. It's doing well and lots more info now! Congrats to the community.