Having had a power outage recently I figured I'd program the scanner (a Uniden 996T) to pick up the 900Mhz as well as the UHF frequencies that I've seen in the database for Progress Energy. We had a power outage today around (my approx estimate) a one mile area in Cary so I tuned into those frequencies to hear nothing but did hear the police say that Progress Energy was already on site. (I'd heard PE on the 900Mhz previously but not this time).
Thinking that I'm missing some good communications going on , I started scanning some 800Mhz frequencies and found several PE guys fixing the problem on 820.175 Mhz. After my cable modem came back online, I searched for that frequency in the database but did not find it. Would that be a Nextel frequency?
They sure didn't seem to be putting out a whole lot of signal. I'm not that familiar with Nextel ... If it's nextel, what power output do they typically have? And how do the frequencies work on the units -- are they trunked or have a setting on the unit itself or do they come w/ a fixed frequency that need to be coordinated with others in a group?
Thanks
Dan
Thinking that I'm missing some good communications going on , I started scanning some 800Mhz frequencies and found several PE guys fixing the problem on 820.175 Mhz. After my cable modem came back online, I searched for that frequency in the database but did not find it. Would that be a Nextel frequency?
They sure didn't seem to be putting out a whole lot of signal. I'm not that familiar with Nextel ... If it's nextel, what power output do they typically have? And how do the frequencies work on the units -- are they trunked or have a setting on the unit itself or do they come w/ a fixed frequency that need to be coordinated with others in a group?
Thanks
Dan