Washington Forum

[ThreeDFlyer]

Maybe I'll go put new batteries in the scanner since I left it on last night listening to the Tesoro refinery fire.

Are the winds picking up in Snohomish County lowboy?

 

[adnahoundsman]

Hello

Hello everyone,
I live West of Chehalis. Luckily I live on a hill top pretty close to a repeater. So I get to listen to conventional freqs. from King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason,Grays Harbor, Lewis, Cowlitz, and Clark Counties. I have an outdoor antenna. But to be honest. Having the repeater so close. I get almost everything with the stock "rubber duck" antennas.

I have a Pro-164, and a Pro 107 iscan. Right now, but have had many scanners over the years.

For the trunked stuff. I commute to work in Puyallup. So I catch it all from King County South. For some reason the King and Pierce county trunked systems. Cut off when I get to the Nisqually area.

What I really need is some input on a good "lowprofile" say 17" or 18" mobile mag. mount antenna. I Know that nothing works stellar on all freqs. But I want something multiband. The rubber duck SUCKS!!!!!!!! in the car.

 

[ThreeDFlyer]

abnahoundsman,

When I had my mobile unit in my car I would us this antenna Mobile "Cellular Look-Alike" Glass-Mount Scanner Antenna - RadioShack.com Very low profile and it worked better than the rubber duck I had.

 

[adnahoundsman]

I looked into that antenna. Unfortunately the glass in my car is not compatible with glass mount antennas.
Which is just as well. I would rather have a mag mount.

 

[ThreeDFlyer]

oh darn... I'll keep my eyes peeled for a magnetic mount adnahoundsman.

 

[gcp104]

looking for talk id's Pierce County Sheriff. Anyone have those they can share with me, or perhaps direct me where I can obtain those?

 

[n7cga]

Old/New

I live in Everett. I'm 'new to this forum stuff, but old to scanning. I owned my first 8 ch crystal scannerr over 40 years ago in Balllard. Used to listen to Seattle Fire as we had Station 18 just a few blocks away. Got away from the hobby somewhat when trunking came on-line didn't see the need to spend the money on a new expensive scanner Just bough a GRE 400 for $150. It was very easy to program. Ham radio for 25 years and a volunteer with Search and Rescue for over 30, in King/Skagit and now Snohomish counties. Thats about it for me.

Dave

 

[SouthSoundScanner]

looking for talk id's Pierce County Sheriff. Anyone have those they can share with me, or perhaps direct me where I can obtain those?

Pierce County Sheriff is not on the Trunked system they are still using conventional frequencies.

154.950 173.8 PL Sheriff East Dispatch

155.310 146.2 PL Sheriff Tactical West/ Admin

155.370 No PL LERN

155.610 173.8 PL Sheriff Tacical East/ Admin

155.640 173.8 PL Sheriff West Dispatch

156.090 173.8 PL Sheriff Information Records

For more details go to the Database.

 

[martidav]

I have a RS Pro-107. I official residence is in the Green Lake 'hood of Seattle, but spend 90% of my time in Newcastle as my GF is there and I work in Factoria.

Therefore, I monitor Seattle PD North and West (downtown) precincts, spectate for other Seattle PD operations, monitor King Sheriff dist 3 (Newcastle PD in cooperation w/ King Sheriff), NORCOMM (Bellevue Fire for Newcastle) and ValleyComm, WSP N when on the Freeways, runway 16L? on AIR.

 

[WApolicescanboy]

Hey

Hey I'm from Edmonds,

I've been scanning since i was 12 and now 17 (i know a young kid) I listen to my area of South Sno County mostly. But i also dab into King County sheriffs, Seattle PD, Kitsap Sheriff, Pierce County, Lakewood, Tacoma, Fed Way, Chelan County, WSP. I'm programmed with a ton of stuff i know.

I only have 3 scanners all Radio Shack.

Pro-163/164
Pro-528

as you can tell i listen to a lot!

I have a live feed up for SNOCOM my 528 is powering that

got my 163 which is mounted in the car with a mag mount and that's always on, also the 164 just non stop listening

 

[lowboy654]

Welcome aboard, looks like you got the bug early in life, its a lot of fun.

 

[cowboymike1971]

I'm in Bellevue. I'm in the Lakemont area up on the ridge. I listen on 2 Radio Shack pro-97's(with RS 800Mhz antennas) and a Radio Shack pro 2035 ( programmed for WSP and Marine/Coast Guard as of right now) My Pro-97's are programmed for NORCOM PD's/FD's.. King Co/Valcom FD's PD's. Seattle PD/FD. Port of Seattle TRS. as well as Various PD's/FD's as far up as Whatcom Co/Island Co. Other stuff I have in my Pro-97's include WSP, FRS/GMRS, Roads/school buses(great for winter road condition reports) I have a bank dedicated to Fed/State and Emergency ops. Also have all area Media/Helo freqs. and many other various non Pub safety freqs. Would be interested to get a thread going on how other people in the area have thier scanners programmed with bank/channel breakdown ( a good way to get ideas on new freqs to listen too! )

 

[cr8onc]

I'm in Okanogan County... as a volunteer fire responder I've enjoyed keeping my radio and pager on 'scan' with the limited channels that they have and listening to traffic elsewhere in the county for a few years. Last year, I snagged an old Uniden BC 147XLT for practically nothing at a garage sale, and was able to expand my channels a little bit more, to get EMS and more police and USFS/DNR channels.

Now, I'm looking to upgrade to a 'real' scanner sometime and working on deciding which one to get. Hooking it up to a computer and providing an online live feed is definitely pretty neat, and something that I'll probably experiment with in the future.

 

[madhatter66]

I keep a break down by geographic area... I live Kitsap, so all of Kitsap is one bank... Pierce is another, then an AIR bank with All the local air freqs and news helo's;....Then WSP has a whole bank, and then a bank with all the smaller 2-3 freq counties... I do keep the FRS/GMRS channels going, nice to see whats going on out there.. Still building some other banks currently. Only using a GRE-100, as I don't live in an area with trunking... Probably will upgrade at some point though...

 

[lowboy654]

Hi Mike anyone can start a tread on what you are talking about, but the best way to handle this I think would be to upload the PSR,WIN and etc files to the Wiki page for the county that they are for or we could ask the higher ups to add a sticky on this on the state page but I think that they would like to see it in the Wiki, how about some more feed back on this from the people here in Washington State on this.
Great question.

 

[martidav]

My gf lives in Newcastle and I in Green Lake area. Therefore I set up my dinky Pro-107 pretty much like you did, same antennas, plus a couple of RS 20-006's for other freqs and an iCom IC-P7A. Since the Pro-107 has an iPod style 'Playlist' setup, I grouped the agencies in lists, SFD (sprinkled with SPD N & W precincts), SPD, Bellevue PD (plus Kirkland, Issaquah, Redmond, Renton), NORCOMM for the areas' FDs, King Sheriff, Other KC, Snohomish, Skagit visits (gf's parents). I pretty much set it up like found on another site's wiki, as I liked the naming and groupings more. King County, WA - InterceptRadio.com Wiki

OH, and I L/O all but the Seattle Simulcast site. Even in Newcastle, it's the strongest for me, even over EPSCA & King Simulcast...messing with decode thresholds 'n wotnot. When I know a trip around King is forthcoming, I'll unlock the others... say Snoqualmie if we're headed that way.

Starting tomorrow, I'll create a new playlist for the Blue Angels freqs and switch to the RS 20-006 to snake everything.

I'm in Bellevue. I'm in the Lakemont area up on the ridge. I listen on 2 Radio Shack pro-97's(with RS 800Mhz antennas) and a Radio Shack pro 2035 ( programmed for WSP and Marine/Coast Guard as of right now) My Pro-97's are programmed for NORCOM PD's/FD's.. King Co/Valcom FD's PD's. Seattle PD/FD. Port of Seattle TRS. as well as Various PD's/FD's as far up as Whatcom Co/Island Co. Other stuff I have in my Pro-97's include WSP, FRS/GMRS, Roads/school buses(great for winter road condition reports) I have a bank dedicated to Fed/State and Emergency ops. Also have all area Media/Helo freqs. and many other various non Pub safety freqs. Would be interested to get a thread going on how other people in the area have thier scanners programmed with bank/channel breakdown ( a good way to get ideas on new freqs to listen too! )

 

[peninhal]

I'm in Lacey, so listen mostly to all Thurston County emergency services, HAMS (I'm KD7YOE), local WSP troops and range control from Fort Lewis.
In the winter listening to the ITS bus guys and county/state road crews lets me know how the roads are out there too.

 

[Sledbrat]

Hey guys, was wondering if you could help me out. I have a pro 164 and i'm having trouble getting snopac to come in with what I orginaly had programed in. Dose any one know if they changed freq?

 

[lowboy654]

I am up in the area what control channel are you using they have been changing things up I will fire up my west scanner looks like they are using
867.93750 as a control channel, you should add all of them and put your scanner in the MOT mode.

P.S. I changed the DataBase here to show the change.

 

[scan-o-matic]

Hey everyone.
New here but not new to scanning.
My wife and I live in Vancouver,Wa and we would listen to Clark Co. Sheriff, WSP, Multnomah Co Sheriff, Wash. Co. and on and on. This was on my RS Pro-95.
Worked great until display crapped out. I attempted to fix it but was unsucessful.
Also my parents were into scanning when I was little. I remember the Radio Shack crystal 12 channel (I think) scanner that we used to listen to.
We are now in a position to buy a replacement scanner. I have been reading posts and researching here and thought that maybe its time to get one thats digital. Been looking at the Uniden BCD396T, the BCD396T or the RS Pro 106.
I figured I should just bite the bullet and get a digital for my area.
Am I correct in that assumption or is encryption eventually going to make a move to digital worthless?
I would prefer to buy one now and be able to scan once they switch than have to buy an analog and then in a couple years have to replace it with a digital.
Maybe some of you in my area can help me decide if I should stick to analog or just go digital.
Anyway, glad to be here and plan on scanning/listening for a long time to come!