Sites?

[Brejames1]

How do i know what sites i am near? thank you
73's

 

[richardbritt]

Tell us where you are for starters? What country, state etc. What are you trying to listen to?

Regards Richard

 

[jtwalker]

The RR entry for the system should list county, so I’d start with that column. Search for the sites in your county and all the counties that touch your county.

 

[Brejames1]

Tell us where you are for starters? What country, state etc. What are you trying to listen to?

Regards Richard

United States, Iron county UT, Would just like to listen to the local d p s ,ems, fire stuff that I have been listening 24 twenty three years that have now been digital on seven hundred megahertz trunked You can hear dispatch call out on 2 m analog. But you can't hear the reply. You can only hear one side of the conversation. It's hard for me to get along. I'm disabled veteran and that's about all I have to do is my ham radio and listen to scanners traffic. This has been very perplexing.I do not know anything about digital.
No

 

[drdispatch]

To expand on what jt said, if you click on the site name, it will take you to the site page. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see a Google Map representation of the *approximate* coverage area of that site. As a rule of thumb, if you're within the red circle, you should be able to hear that site. If you're not close to the circle, you probably won't be able to hear that site. If you're near the edge, well, maybe.
Keep in mind that there are many variables, including the terrain between you and the site, your antenna type, height, and what's between the antenna and radio.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Tell us where you are for starters? What country, state etc. What are you trying to listen to?

OP stated Iron County Utah in their first post. Comms appear analog conventional here

Iron County, Utah (UT) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Iron County, Utah (UT)

www.radioreference.com

How do i know what sites i am near? thank you

Click the callsign in the license column of whatever station you want to research, you'll get a site summary & map there

 

[wbloss]

You might also watch the Utah forum - they are working hard to determine al the Talkgroups on the brand new 700MHz system going in.

 

[dave3825]

what I am getting from op post is he is trying to obtain the 700 mhz freqs. Iron county pd and fire are on the trunked system so they may not be using analog fully anymore. He would need the Utah trunked system.

 

[ka3jjz]

And by way of explanation, the 'T' in the mode means that these talkgroups are using Phase II, so you would need a Phase II compatible scanner to hear this.

Mike

 

[enosjones]

And by way of explanation, the 'T' in the mode means that these talkgroups are using Phase II, so you would need a Phase II compatible scanner to hear this.

Mike

if the OP is using just a ham radio to listen , they can only hear analog on most ham radios, with the exception of DMR ham or Fusion or Brandmeister... No Ham radios do P25 to my knowledge. OP would definitely need a scanner if Iron doesn't go enc....

 

[kd7rto]

A ham that doesn't know how to search across a range of frequencies. (ie. 769-775 MHz), looking for signals? What in the world is our hobby coming to?

 

[enosjones]

signals yes , to actually listen to voice no. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear digital noise, I'm sure they want to hear actual traffic or voices...

 

[kd7rto]

signals yes , to actually listen to voice no. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear digital noise, I'm sure they want to hear actual traffic or voices...

Finding the control channels is just step 1 in the process. Besides, figuring out how radios and radio systems work is the real fun here. Listening to traffic gets old fast. A great thing about radio hobbies is that there's always something new to explore and learn.