Trip thru Kentucky

[Forts]

Hi folks! I'm taking a trip down to Bristol Motor Speedway in a few weeks and I'm trying to load up my PSR-800 for the Kentucky portion of my journey. Can anyone recommend what sites I want to use for the I-75 corridor from Ohio thru to London? From there we will likely head east on 421 to Bristol (unless anyone can recommend a better route!). And I assume I want to be using the old SAFE-T system, not the P25 system?

Thanks for any suggestions!!

 

[Forts]

Oops... wait. SAFE-T is Indiana. So KSP is all conventional by the looks of it?

 

[abbadabbado]

ky trip

my opinion when you get ti lexington go east on i 64 to the mountain parkway mountain parkway will take you to us 23 go south to kingport tenn then to bristol. now as far as scanner listening put in the KSP all the post east of louisville. probable not much traffic on the parkway some but quite for some time . you can put in some counties but relative quite till you get to pike county put them in also put in the va state police all digital that is about the most traffic you can get. if i remember you need to program KSP as FM post 9 in pikeville covers magoffin floyd pike martin johnson before you get to va line letcher covers out of the hazard post KSP is digital pike county services are analog conventnal. all these roads are 4 an 6 lanes just be careful thru wolf county ky on the parkway SPEED TRAPS. MUCH MORE SENIC ROUTE THAN I 75 MOUNTAINS ARE BEAUTIFUL THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. also if you get the opp stray at the breaks interstate park well worth iy also they take pets. on the va side i travel this several times a year born an raised in pike county ky scanner traffic is a little different than more pop ares

 

[Forts]

Thanks very much for the info and suggestions!

 

[ofd8001]

Not much more to offer than the above. KSP has a pretty decent UHF coventional/digital system.

Units preceded by "4" are Vehicle Enforcement units (commercial trucking).
Units preceded by "7" are Fish and Wildlife law enforcement.

All other unit numbers are troopers. They use their badge number as their call sign so it is real hard to determine which specific area a trooper is assigned.

Also if you have the Canadian equivalent of an FCC license, you should bring it with you. Kentucky law prohibits scanners in vehicles with some exceptions (FCC license is one). Firefighters having written permission from their fire chief is another, but that is only for fire frequencies.

 

[cobraDIHO]

You should encounter mostly analog/clear P25 on the journey down. Scott County, KY Fire (along I-75, south of Cincinnati) uses NEXEDGE. Letcher County, KY (On the VA/KY border if you take US 23) has mixed analog/NXDN, but those are the only counties that I can think of that use other digital formats. KSP is usually quite busy so you should hear a lot of traffic from them.