Wa State Ferries/Seattle Coast Guard

[articthunder]

Is there a way to listen to Washington State Ferries and Coast Guard Group Seattle? Is there a specific freq, a marine channel or VHF. Looking for suggestions.
Thanks

 

[RBMTS]

There sure is. The info you seek is in the Washington DB. I believe there is also some information in the WIKI for Washington. If your scanner has a service search feature, you might want to scan the marine band.

The CG operates on the standard marine channels assigned to them. However they do have some specific frequencies that they use in the MIL bands but they always seem to use encryption. Therefore you won't be able to hear them. The FedGov section of the WIKI has various frequencies listed for the CG. Listen to Marine channel 22a for marine related emergencies where the the CG is communicating with public or commercial vessels. Another active channel for them is channel 23 as I remember.

 

[articthunder]

Randy thanks so much for the info, I will give it a try.

 

[PACNWDude]

Marine VHF 16 is always a good one to monitor. CG will then direct traffic to another channel.
This is 156.8 MHz FM wideband 26kHz.

 

[SCPD]

This is 156.8 MHz FM wideband 26kHz.

I think you mean just "FM" @ 25khz ... N-FM and W-FM are totally different bandwidths.

 

[PACNWDude]

Yes corrected above.

Yes, meant wideband as in 25kHz channel spacing and "25" instead of "26".

 

[lowboy654]

look here
Department of Transportation Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Also the WSP for that area.
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=745

 

[Stavro35]

All law enforcement and SAR ops are now on a frequency that can no longer be monitored . This is nationwide on various frequencies, not just Seattle.

 

[lowboy654]

All law enforcement and SAR ops are now on a frequency that can no longer be monitored . This is nationwide on various frequencies, not just Seattle.

the Op is asking about Washington State Ferries and Coast Guard, not sure what you are talking about. or did I miss something here.

 

[Stavro35]

Coast guard.

the Op is asking about Washington State Ferries and Coast Guard, not sure what you are talking about. or did I miss something here.

He included USCG in his posting. So I assume he meant working frequencies, which as you know, can't be monitored.