I have two frequencies that need confirming and then I'd like to submit them to RR. I think we're talking local PD and the sheriff. When viewing the RR freq. page, it appears to be understandably stringent on submissions. How can I figure out who is transmitting this signal with certainty?
Submitting/Verifying a Freq.
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nd5y
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Is this in the United States? If so you can search the frequencies in the FCC database either on radioreference or on the FCC web site.
Post the frequencies here and what city, county and state you are hearing them and somebody can probably verify them.
Post the frequencies here and what city, county and state you are hearing them and somebody can probably verify them.
Generally verification happens one of several ways:
1) Direct verification through monitoring -- you monitor enough comms on the frequency to identify the agency and type of calls being handled on the frequency.
2) Direct verification by inside intel -- someone in the agency verifies the frequency and channel use. For example, you ask your buddy to key up his radio on the tactical channel and verify that frequency.
Checking FCC data is not very reliable, as it only tells you the entity, not necessarily the agency or how the frequency is actually being used.
I suspect that this thread will be moved to a more appropriate forum.
1) Direct verification through monitoring -- you monitor enough comms on the frequency to identify the agency and type of calls being handled on the frequency.
2) Direct verification by inside intel -- someone in the agency verifies the frequency and channel use. For example, you ask your buddy to key up his radio on the tactical channel and verify that frequency.
Checking FCC data is not very reliable, as it only tells you the entity, not necessarily the agency or how the frequency is actually being used.
I suspect that this thread will be moved to a more appropriate forum.
loumaag
Silent Key - Aug 2014
Back in the good old TrunkedRadio.net days, I had a pal (who was a dispatcher for the local sheriff's office) transmit on every channel he had on the console that I did didn't know and tell me what the channel was, I was on the phone at home at the time. The SO was using a trunking system, the FD's were all conventional. Needless to say, in the early days of trunking monitoring, our parish (hint as to where I was) had the most complete listing on Lindsay's (then) new site.
ecps92
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Or even better, use Trunker/Unitrunker and watch as the borrowed radio [Coffee is a good motivator] Affiliates to each TG in the Trunked Radio
Back in the good old TrunkedRadio.net days, I had a pal (who was a dispatcher for the local sheriff's office) transmit on every channel he had on the console that I did didn't know and tell me what the channel was, I was on the phone at home at the time. The SO was using a trunking system, the FD's were all conventional. Needless to say, in the early days of trunking monitoring, our parish (hint as to where I was) had the most complete listing on Lindsay's (then) new site.
loumaag
Silent Key - Aug 2014
Did that when I was in SD back in 2004/5. Only problem with this solution is that you can only see the ones on the radio. The dispatch center's console had them all.Or even better, use Trunker/Unitrunker and watch as the borrowed radio [Coffee is a good motivator] Affiliates to each TG in the Trunked Radio
ecps92
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Sometimes they are in there, all depends on which Zone , Regional Disp etc
Yup, been there, done that too, the only REAL way to ID the users :wink:
Yup, been there, done that too, the only REAL way to ID the users :wink:
Did that when I was in SD back in 2004/5. Only problem with this solution is that you can only see the ones on the radio. The dispatch center's console had them all.
jfhtm350
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Good old pencil and paper to record what you hear (street info, fire/ems/police chatter, any other clues, the repeater code or trunking information), fcc database information (FCC General Menu Reports 3.1.14 October 7, 2010), and google maps (maps.google.com), will help you confirm who they are. Also the RR database will help you eliminate any other possible agencies you find in the FCC database.
Fire/EMS/Police are fairly easy to figure out since you will hear where they are going and what they are doing. If you run up on a business frequency of some sorts and trying to figure out who it belongs to, they are the real kicker to figure out, because its usually the same thing over and over with no useable information.
i found some good chatter from the staff at a summer camp and it took a couple of weeks to figure THAT out. they sure do talk about some nondescript stuff. the fun one that i'm working on is the police: are they city or sheriff? that's a toughy, but also part of the fun.
ecps92
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i guess i could try that too.
jfhtm350
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Write down where they go on calls to and their handle with it, such as 1122 or 305 or whatever their number is. Sometimes police and county sheriff is on the same frequency and those number will help differentiate. 1100's could be county units and 300's could be city units and vice versa. When you get a bunch wrote down you can googlemap the addresses and see who went to city areas and who went to county areas. That should keep you busy a little while.
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