Well, I'm glad to know that there is at least one other crazy person in SC riding around with laptop, slicer and scanner collecting data. Whenever I travel, there I am in the passenger seat, my patient wife driving and my two young children in the back seat, and me covered in gear and wires. What's wrong with us?
Anyway, maybe the RR wiki is the place for this collective data. That way, anyone could edit it. I could spend days looking through the page and group files for all the sites I've monitored (I think I have files for about 45 sites now) to come up with un-ID'd groups. We could generate a list of unknowns, and then folks could ID those that they know or suspect.
What information about a group would we include? I'd say the group number, which site(s) it was heard on and when, anything about the content of the transmission (LE/EMS/FD/UTIL, etc), unit numbers, addresses mentioned, RIDs that have affiliated with the group. Anything else?
I'll see about getting a page on the wiki set up for this purpose, and then a link to it in a sticky message at the top of the forum. How does that sound?
Brian
By the way, I can reliably monitor sites 18, 19, 36, and 35 from home with a duck antenna, and probably at least 6 more sites with my outside 800 yagi. I can leave trunker running on a site for weeks at a time gathering data, and haven't done such a good job of that recently. Unfortunately, I don't travel all that often, but I think we have some good monitors in Columbia, Greenville, Charleston area, Beaufort, maybe the Grand Strand. I haven't heard anything recently from the Aiken/Augusta area, and I think we're lean in the Pee Dee and northeast part of the state. If you're out there and have trunker capabilities, post a reply and let us know you're there.