Professional Motocross

[petey_racer]

We go to several professional motocross races every year. I thought it would be cool this year to bring a scanner since most teams use radios these days for crew and pit comms.

I cannot find anything for frequencies. Hell, there are scanners dedicated and pre-programmed for that nascar stuff, yet I find no info for motocross.

I see most of nascar is UHF and in the business band area. Can I assume motocross is similar?
I may just have to scan 450.000-470.000 and keep notes.

Anyone have any leads or frequencies?

 

[scanfan03]

We go to several professional motocross races every year. I thought it would be cool this year to bring a scanner since most teams use radios these days for crew and pit comms.

I cannot find anything for frequencies. Hell, there are scanners dedicated and pre-programmed for that nascar stuff, yet I find no info for motocross.

I see most of nascar is UHF and in the business band area. Can I assume motocross is similar?
I may just have to scan 450.000-470.000 and keep notes.

Anyone have any leads or frequencies?

Try to get a look at the radios they are using to get a frequency band. If you can't, you need to use close call or signal stalker if you have it. They could be using anything from VHF, UHF to 800-900. My guess would be that they are on VHF or UHF though.

 

[petey_racer]

Well duh. I forgot all about Signal Stalker/Close Call. My 246 and 15 have these but I never use them.

Thanks 03!

 

[mur]

Anyone find out anymore info?, Supercross is coming

 

[K9one]

Look up "Feld Enterainment"

The parent company of the supercross I believe is FELD Entertainment Home - FELD Entertainment . They are the parent company to the circus, monster jam and others.
The FCC website is ULS License - Industrial/Business Pool, Conventional License - WPNR333 - FELD ENTERTAINMENT INC.

 

[990adv]

What are you wanting to hear? To me it would seem not much is going to be heard during the actual race. You pull off to the mechanics area and you are pretty much done. Maybe pre race talking about lines thru a section? Not trying to throw cold water on the idea just curious.

From late 90s to mid 2000s I raced hare scrambles and enduro. During that time I went to alot of the GNCC races. Now that was some fun listening. If you did not know, a GNCC race for the pro and A class is three hours. They have a 2 hour morning race for B and C riders. Until I moved up to the A class for the three hour afternoon race I would race in the morning then listen in on the pro pit crews during the afternoon. When I had my mornings free I would listen to all the FRS GMRS traffic during the race.

Also found the freqs for the GNCC race officials. That was also interesting.

 

[petey_racer]

In 2009 when I posted this I did bring a scanner to the track. I got quite a few hits on signal stalker. Lots of chatter and pretty interesting. It was just hard to stick with listening between friends, my son, the announcer, shooting photos and most importantly the sound of the bikes. I realized it was just not worth it.
Watching the race was just more important than scanning at the time.
I haven't brought one back in the last three years. Maybe this year I'll try again.

 

[Darth_vader]

When "the guys" and I were racing Goldendale and 'Shoug, we'd just use regular AM CB radios operating up in the 30s. Most of the time we'd hang out on 36 or 37; sometimes we'd go elsewhere if there was a lot of skip (or truckers in the area were deliberately trying to make a--es of themselves, as often happened in G-dale due to that track's proximity to two major highways.) I still have my old Realistic TRC-222 that I'd gotten at a yard sale not long after I'd acquired my 850cc KTM (my baby) and which served me well during the unfortunate number of times I ended up working pit, when I should have otherwise been shredding. Still receives alright, but the transmitter front-end's basically dead. Probably too many years of dirt and grit accumulated in the thing.

The rest of the groups/teams we'd see would be packing around their trendy little FRS sets (the latest thing back then), or some of the really 31337x0rz had their trendy Nextel IDEN radios (also the latest thing back then); we stubborn old German/Finnish/Dutch/Welsh Blackwoodians stuck with our bulky old CB walkies! (Whatever works, I guess.)

 

[Stavro35]

Centurylink field, home of the Seattle Sounders, and Seattle Seahawks hosts events sometimes.I would love to be able to hear communications related to these events. Centurylink DOES have their own LTR system. So I'm able to monitor that when there is something going on at the CLINK