Question About a Bedford Frequency?

[Sweetbritches]

Rail freq

Around here 154.57 is the Wal-Mart frequency. Heh.

I found a bunch of boring aircraft frequencies today. It got me wondering if there are any railroad frequencies local to Bedford?

Thomas

Railroad I have heard are just a few Check between 160.215 to 161.55

Ones i have heard along my travels and here are heard 160.44,160.95,160.245,

not confirmed160.92,160.23,160.38,160.785,160.47,160.50,161.515,160.53,160.32

Mostly what i have heard are uncoupling, pulling fwd, change track, backing coupling at site, pul;ling fwd changing track, backing to recouple and pulling fwd with cars to be deopped in tow,change track backing and dropping,pulling fwd,change track back and recou8ple and going fwd to next destination
other is dispatcher telling speed at various mile markers and train giving back all instructions to dispatcher to be sure the train understood them a woman i know moniters her dad worked for the railroad but i dont usually moniter them planes are better or fire calls sometimes and sheriff or towns are the best as said cause lots of things going on

 

[John]

Central Planning District

YES! As long as you have a scanner that tracks EDACS you're good to go. Bedford County comms is part of a regional networked system that includes the city of Bedford, Lynchburg and Amherst County.

Central Planning District Trunking System, Various, Virginia - Scanner Frequencies

For now. The Central Planning District is supposed to be installing a new Harris digitial system in the next year or two which I understand may be P25 Phase 2 (TDMA). If so, I am not sure any scanner will decode them but the PSR-800 might. I understood it supported TDMA but wasn't the P25 Phase 2 standard.

John

 

[PurpleDog]

Thanks everyone. I'm a total newbie at monitoring anything besides a Nascar race and I appreciate the advice.

I'm using a little BC125AT with a Diamond RH77CA antenna, so I realize I'm on the low end of the scale as far as pulling in distant frequencies. I was able to hear what I think is Bedford County Rescue on 462.9750 for a few minutes, but it seems to be on for a minute or so and then off.

Any working freqs that I might pickup in Moneta would be appreciated. I will try and figure out how to do the searchs also.

 

[gcgrotz]

Sometimes I will listen to air traffic and follow along on flyteaware.com and see where the planes are coming and going. I know, what a geek! The major approach to ATL from Europe and the northeast follows the mountains and is quite busy. Not to mention the traffic to Dulles. I heard the NASA plane carrying the Shuttle on Dulles approach and also Air Force 1 from time to time.

I listen to rails a lot too, and a bunch of us here run around and take pictures and watch what's going by. The local TV weather guy is even a geek too!

There might be some boating activity down at the Lake in the summer to monitor too.

Welcome to RR!

 

[mikev]

Fire/Rescue is one of those things that will probably always be monitor-able with an analog scanner. Especially as long as there are volunteers in that role. The main communications may be digital on a trunked radio system, but there's almost always an analog frequency for pagers or monitoring as well.

Air traffic control is also interesting... usually one-sided conversations (the plane only, depending on how far you may be from an airport), but to hear what planes are where in the sky can be pretty cool. Smaller local airports that don't have a control tower usually rely on the pilots to communicate with each other about takeoff, landing, etc.

There's a whole world of stuff waiting to be heard.

 

[gcgrotz]

Hi mikev, I sometimes forget (cue the violins) not everybody is lucky enough to live here, which I guess is a good thing, where the ATC and ARTCC and Washington Center FAA site is on a 3400' mountain top so we have no trouble hearing both sides of most flights. I've found I can hear planes down to about 3000-3500 ft on approach to Dulles from this side, and CHO gets a lot of interesting traffic from military a/c doing practice ILS approaches because it is not real busy otherwise and has full tower staffing in the daytime.

You guys get a LOT of good air traffic, as does Norfolk/Va Beach and I'm jealous for that!

 

[ThomasMcKean]

Airline and aircraft frequencies that can be heard in Bedford, please?

I have the Lynchburg and Roanoke radar. I also have Roanoke Arrival and Departure, though I have not been able to find the same for Lynchburg.

I have found a lot of frequencies that are listed as Buena Vista frequencies, an example of this being 133.025 but I am thinking that may be listed incorrectly?

I have the balloon and blimp frequencies in, but I really don't ever expect to hear much on them and don't even plan to tune in unless I happen to spot a balloon, which does happen on occasion.

What are some frequencies air wise that I can hear in Bedford? *Blink*

 

[DrWhoVa]

rr channels

Railroad I have heard are just a few Check between 160.215 to 161.55

Ones i have heard along my travels and here are heard 160.44,160.95,160.245,

not confirmed160.92,160.23,160.38,160.785,160.47,160.50,161.515,160.53,160.32

Mostly what i have heard are uncoupling, pulling fwd, change track, backing coupling at site, pul;ling fwd changing track, backing to recouple and pulling fwd with cars to be deopped in tow,change track backing and dropping,pulling fwd,change track back and recou8ple and going fwd to next destination
other is dispatcher telling speed at various mile markers and train giving back all instructions to dispatcher to be sure the train understood them a woman i know moniters her dad worked for the railroad but i dont usually moniter them planes are better or fire calls sometimes and sheriff or towns are the best as said cause lots of things going on

160.320 and 160.230 are the CSX road channels through Bedford and Lynchburg. 160.320 is dispatch (AAR 14) and 160.230 (AAR 8) is the road channel

 

[DrWhoVa]

Doesn't

For now. The Central Planning District is supposed to be installing a new Harris digitial system in the next year or two which I understand may be P25 Phase 2 (TDMA). If so, I am not sure any scanner will decode them but the PSR-800 might. I understood it supported TDMA but wasn't the P25 Phase 2 standard.

John

PSR800 hasn't been able to decode Phase 2 just X2-TDMA

 

[ThomasMcKean]

160.320 and 160.230 are the CSX road channels through Bedford and Lynchburg. 160.320 is dispatch (AAR 14) and 160.230 (AAR 8) is the road channel

Is this AM or FM?

 

[kc4jgc]

Wirelessly posted (SAMSUNG-SGH-T459/T459UVIA1 NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

FM.. Only the vhf & uhf aero bands are AM.

 

[ThomasMcKean]

Thanks railroad info.

I have have Roanoke aircraft departure down as 126.900 which seems to be correct but the approach I have listed as 119.050 and my scanner won't allow that frequency. I am thinking it is wrong? *Blink*

 

[ThomasMcKean]

Hi guys I found another frequency and I am really scratching my head over this one? It is a business frequency, purple dot, in the Bedford area.

Frequency: 151.955

DCS: 532

Does anyone know who or what this might be?

 

[John]

You can also monitor Bedford fire on 460.600

 

[ThomasMcKean]

I found another frequency here in Bedford but I can't figure what it is?

Freq: 155.775mhz

CTCSS 118.8

Does anyone know who or what this is?

 

[Sweetbritches]

155.775

I found another frequency here in Bedford but I can't figure what it is?

Freq: 155.775mhz

CTCSS 118.8

Does anyone know who or what this is?

The frequency 155.775 is Pittsylvania Fire Dept channel 2

 

[ThomasMcKean]

The frequency 155.775 is Pittsylvania Fire Dept channel 2

Good heavens! Is there ANYTHING yew do not know? *Blink*

How about this? This one might stump yew. I have heard activity on 151.995mhz. This is the "purple dot" frequency which makes me think it is a local business, but I have no idea which business it is?

Thanks for the fire dept. info.

 

[gcgrotz]

Hey Thomas: Those "dot" and "star" frequencies could be anybody, they are unlicensed low power channels. There is no "official record" although some people may have made lists. You would have to drive around where the signal is strong and try to guess, typically large stores like WalMart or possibly landscape and lawn/garden supply store, or a hotel. We use tower crews that will often have these type VHF radios, if they remember to bring a radio at all...

 

[Sweetbritches]

Good heavens! Is there ANYTHING yew do not know? *Blink*

How about this? This one might stump yew. I have heard activity on 151.995mhz. This is the "purple dot" frequency which makes me think it is a local business, but I have no idea which business it is?

Thanks for the fire dept. info.

151.955 is BlueRidge Fiberboard they make celotex panels in Danville

 

[ThomasMcKean]

151.955 is BlueRidge Fiberboard they make celotex panels in Danville

!!!! Yew may be right about that? I only hear them on the scanner connected to the outdoor antenna (10.5 feet long and mounted up around 25 or 30 feet or so) and even then they barely come in. That sounds about right for Danville.

Yew sure know your frequencies!