Sumertime fun (San Francisco Bay Area)

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b52hbuff

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I copied my message from the Yahoogroups! Bayscan group to here for some broader coverage. When I mention 'Files Area' that refers to the Bayscan YahooGroup.

Given the broader scope of this board, what other sumertime targets do folks monitor?

I have helped contribute to a fairly extensive Disneyland profile. It is floating about somewhere on this board. Great fun listening to the various techs working hard to put together the 'magic'. :)
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Time to lather on sunscreen on your scanner and take it outside for
some fun and safe summertime fun...

Someone was asking about 'summertime' frequencies. As many on the
list know, I'm one of those strange IG-ie listeners and sumertime
means IG themepark licenses are starting to come active again.


According to Paramount Great America's website:
Sunday, May 28, beginning at 9pm, celebrate Memorial Day with a
world-class Fireworks Extravaganza at Paramount's Great America.
Choreographed to patriotic and popular music, it's one of the
largest fireworks displays in the Bay Area!

Frequencies for PGA can be found here:
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=2883

I have submitted/verified all frequencies with a tone. However, I'm
not certain of some of the labels that the Database Admin chose to
use. I have not verified the hr, finance and marketing tac
frequencies. If someone does manage to snag a tone, I'd love to
know what it is.

One comment is that Ops/Maintenance(Ch #1) appears to be vacated for
some reason. I tried monitoring with Tone Search enabled, so it is
really silent and not a tone change. Ops/Maintenance can now be
found on Ch #4, which has been used for Entertainment/Fireworks.
The tone on Ch#4 has remained the same. I'll be interested to know
what they decide to do for the fireworks.

Depending on how crazy the traffic gets around PGA, you can monitor
Santa Clara City PD on:
1104 045 Police Special Ops 2
1136 047 Police Special Ops 3

For some reason, the Memorial Day fireworks aren't as crazy as
the 'El Quarto de Julio' or 4th of July as we like to call it.

If you go to the files section, under the WinXX section, you will
find Amuz_ncal.zip which contains a .p96 configuration for Great
America, Santa Clara City TRS (for when PGA get's 'out of control'),
Bonfante Gardens, Gilroy PS, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz
PS, Marine World, Vallejo PS and the FRS/GMRS/MURS/Itinerant and
freqs for Motorola's XTN 'business band' radios.

The FRS/GMRS/etc is used quite commonly by folks out having fun.
Also in the files section, under UASD Files is a file
MotorolaXTN.zip which contains these frequencies for Uniden's BC-
246T and BCD-396T.

Bonfante Gardens is 'another' Paramount Park operated in Gilroy.
Frequencies can be found here:
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=3176

If somene can identify the missing holes, please let me know.
Finally, if you're going to a concert at the HP Pavillion, check out:
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=3402

You can go to the groups' website address and try searching for
messages:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bayscan/

I have posted frequencies for San Jose Egyptian Museum and Oakland's
Fairyland.

If anyone is interested, I'll upload files in UASD format for some
of these entertainment venues. As always, I look forward to hearing
back if folks used the profiles and if they managed to get some more
information. If folks have other interesting summer monitoring
targets, that would be fun to hear about too.

p.s. Anyone know where to get a listing of the Bay Area Memorial Day
fireworks displays?
 

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While I don't really consider it the SF Bay Area, I'll be on vacation in Monterey for a week in June, and plan to verify all of the frequencies/tones and usage for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I'll submit it to the database when I've got it all.

We might make it up to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, but that's up in the air, and it'd be a day trip so I'll have less gear with me for logging. ;)
 

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Kirk said:
While I don't really consider it the SF Bay Area, I'll be on vacation in Monterey for a week in June, and plan to verify all of the frequencies/tones and usage for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I'll submit it to the database when I've got it all.

We might make it up to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, but that's up in the air, and it'd be a day trip so I'll have less gear with me for logging. ;)

Excellent! I'd love to see what you come back with for MBA.

What radio will you be bringing, I may have a profile ready.
 
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Kirk said:
While I don't really consider it the SF Bay Area, I'll be on vacation in Monterey for a week in June, and plan to verify all of the frequencies/tones and usage for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I'll submit it to the database when I've got it all.

We might make it up to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, but that's up in the air, and it'd be a day trip so I'll have less gear with me for logging.
;)

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7125
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7375 469.7375
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7625
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7875
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.8125
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.4000 466.4000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.7625 466.7625
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.7875 466.7875
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SECURITY 464.8250 469.8250
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SECURITY 464.9250 469.9250

Don't know if they still work give them a try see what happens if you find new ones that would be great. Also if you want public safety freqs as well PM i'll send you my list if you want.
 
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I'll be taking my usual travelers... BCD-396T and BC-330T. I'll have a laptop w/Scannerbase at the hotel, so I can leave one radio there and carry the other.

I've attached my USD file for the aquarium below. Group 1 has the tones I got from Kelty, Group 2 everything is in search mode. Makes life easier when I'm sleuthing.
 

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Aquarium

Here's my collection of tones from my visit to MBA last year:
464.7125 D114 “Night events”
464.7375 D116 Security, w/parking
464.7625 D131 Splash Zone
464.7875 D134 “Food for rays and tropical fish”
464.8125 D152 Boat
464.8375 D156
464.8625
464.8875 D174 Security

464.2250 D174
464.9250 F1D, F3E
461.0375
461.4000 data, F2D
461.7625 F2D, F3E
461.7875 F2D, F3E
467.7625 D532 Bookstore
159.7200 F1D, F2D, F3E


ScannerDude244 said:
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7125
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7375 469.7375
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7625
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.7875
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 464.8125
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.4000 466.4000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.7625 466.7625
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH 461.7875 466.7875
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SECURITY 464.8250 469.8250
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM SECURITY 464.9250 469.9250

Don't know if they still work give them a try see what happens if you find new ones that would be great. Also if you want public safety freqs as well PM i'll send you my list if you want.
 

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Gilligan said:
I hope you add all that to the database. Thanks

Like I said, I'm going there in about three weeks, and will confirm usage based on what I've already got in my usd file plus what's been posted here. It looks like he's already added the stuff for Great America and Bonfonte Gardens to the db.

My police/fire/ems/Presidio freqs all come from RR.com database (verified w/Kelty books), but if I notice anything different I'll submit that as well.

Once I'm done and it's all sorted, I will do a Monterey Bay Aquarium submission to the DB.
 

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Kirk said:
Like I said, I'm going there in about three weeks, and will confirm usage based on what I've already got in my usd file plus what's been posted here. It looks like he's already added the stuff for Great America and Bonfonte Gardens to the db.

My police/fire/ems/Presidio freqs all come from RR.com database (verified w/Kelty books), but if I notice anything different I'll submit that as well.

Once I'm done and it's all sorted, I will do a Monterey Bay Aquarium submission to the DB.

How did trip to Aquarium go? Get any frequency information?
 

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That's one thing I didn't do this entire summer... ...go to the aquarium.

I've even been in Monterey since Tuesday at the fair. Don't have the scanner though. Plenty of air traffic. Some interesting cars pulling thru Monterey county too. Rolex Classic Car Races @ Mazda Raceway/Laguna Seca are this weekend. Just today I saw the new $1.2 million Bugatti on Hwy. 68 EB. Around KMRY at the fairgrounds I observed a H-60 come in on final, CH-46 take off, two Hornets land (possibly VFA-115 due to the black on the tail end), and two more H-60's fly right over my house in the fields going south, probably to FHL.
 
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b52hbuff said:
How did trip to Aquarium go? Get any frequency information?

Yes, I've just been preoccupied with other tasks and haven't done a submission yet. I got a new vehicle, and have been working on the radio install for a couple of weeks now.

That darned full-time job is getting in the way of my hobbies again. :)

Look for some new info later this week. Everything I have is hand scribbled notes and Scannerbase logs. I need to make it human (other than me) readable.
 
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