Virginia Regional Transit / Loudoun Transit

[meisrc]

Im looking for freqs for VRTA aka Loudoun Transit. They operate public buses in Fauquier, Loudoun and Culpeper Counties. They are based in Purcellville in Loudoun County. If anyone knows
any freqs they use please pass them along. Thanks.

 

[fmon]

This link from RR VA Database, list your county as part of

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

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This system primarly resides in the following states:

District of Columbia Maryland Virginia

This system primarly resides in the following county:

District of Columbia

This system also resides in the following counties:

Montgomery, Prince George's, Arlington, Fairfax, Alexandria, Loudoun and Falls Church

 

[Samuel]

I think he is refering to a seperate agency. However they may be operated by WMATA because WMATA does have contracts with other agencies in the area so checking that system would be a good start. If not they may be nextel. I know PTRC buses down in Prince William use Nextel which cant be monitored with a scanner.

 

[meisrc]

VRTA is opearted by itself and not by another computer. They use 2 way radio so the nextel thing is out. the antenna they have on the buses looks like somewhere in the 400mhz range.

 

[Samuel]

If they are 400 Mhz range then try the following Loudoun County Licenses:
453.325
488.6875
488.9375
489.1875
If its not on the above try a search in either the 494-496 Mhz range or the 453Mhz range. Many major transit agencies have systems in those ranges. They could be on a LTR system but I have no idea. I will try to see I can find anything better but see if these help any.

 

[Samuel]

UPDATE ON VRTA

I was told the other day that VRTA uses the an LTR trunked system. Its the Warren Brooks system and it is based out of Prince William. Their home repeater is supposedly Frequency 3 (490.2875).

01 488.4625 02 490.6875 03 490.2875 04 488.7125 05 489.4625 06 489.1625 07 490.4875
08 489.6125 09 489.2625 10 489.9875 11 488.7375 12 490.3875 13 489.6625 14 490.7375
15 489.1375 16 488.3125 17 490.0875 18 488.9125 19 489.5875 20 496.8625

 

[dtscho]

I was monitoring 490.2875 this morning, and heard VRTA on 1-03-120. Fairly busy. By the way, thanks to the person who submitted the complete channel order for this LTR system.

Dave