EJB
20 + year membership
I hope that this post is in the correct place and that some or maybe many of you respond.
I've been a member here for longer than most of us, 18 years. I've met and become friends with some of you guys and gals and RadioReference is an important site and thus important to my life.
I am curious, what is everyone scanning these days? I have a bunch of radios and scanners generally running in the background while I watch TV or read. I live in downtown Hamilton, high up facing the west and south with a bit of exposure towards Burlington Bay. Most of my scanning is based around this. It's hard at times to receive Peel and Toronto. I have a tough time scanning Fonthill. I can get it in my friends apartment across the hall, but not here.
So using one of my go-to scanners, the marvelous Uniden 436 this is what I scan at any given time of the day:
Charlton P25 FleetNet- only the Charlton tower, in scan mode, OPP, MTOE, and MNR.
Charlton MOH FleetNet-only the Charlton tower, generally the Hamilton and Mississauga CACC with some Zone 1 and Zone 2 MOH activities.
Halton P25 South in scan mode, monitoring the 4 fire services and sometimes the Works talkgroups, very valuable, listening to areas that get snow yesterday while we didn't.
FleetNet London dispatch-I'll utilize the Brantford and Woodstock towers to monitor London dispatched OPP, MTOE, and SSM MNR activity.
FleetNet CISO/SURV, the Charlton and Brantford towers cause you never know whatyou might hear .
When mobile, if I am heading east, I have a bank set for Fonthill and Skylon towers. When I worked in Oakville around Speers and 3rd line it's located in a bit of a ditch. It's just on the boundary where Brittania and Mowat are dicey and Charlton falls off. Fonthill is often the strongest tower in the area.
Sometimes I use a bank set for Mowat/Brittania/Fonthill to allow for continuous coverage in Oakville and points east.
I have a bank set for Woodlawn/Cedarwoods, Ballinifad when I go north and west towards the escarpment.
At home I use my 20+ year old Pro 2025 for local air coverage.
I don't like to monitor more than 3 or 4 banks at a time so when I'm home I will use my Home Patrol 1. If I'm at home I. 'll use the 436 to monitor Charlton P25 and Halton's P25 system and let the HP monitor London Dispatch activity.
When mobile in Hamilton on my bike or when I walk the 396T is my go to. It's small and easily put in a pocket. Usually I have Halton P25, Charlton P25 & the Mississauga and Hamilton CACC, sometimes I have a bank to monitor EMS paging and ORNGE activity.
At home, I occasionally monitor the ONQ system. I used to monitor the Waterloo Region EDACS. Even less time monitoring the town of Oakville system, Metrolinx.
When the weather is iffy and different from place to place like yesterday I'll monitor the MTO. I have 2 banks set up, one for GTA/HA towers and another for Brantford and points west.
Occasionally when the weather is nic, and we are having large inversions I use one of my antennas on my balcony and go searching for comms, be it Motorola or whatever radio systems or stuff in the 30-50 MHz range.
I'd love for this thread to be large and I await responses.
I've been a member here for longer than most of us, 18 years. I've met and become friends with some of you guys and gals and RadioReference is an important site and thus important to my life.
I am curious, what is everyone scanning these days? I have a bunch of radios and scanners generally running in the background while I watch TV or read. I live in downtown Hamilton, high up facing the west and south with a bit of exposure towards Burlington Bay. Most of my scanning is based around this. It's hard at times to receive Peel and Toronto. I have a tough time scanning Fonthill. I can get it in my friends apartment across the hall, but not here.
So using one of my go-to scanners, the marvelous Uniden 436 this is what I scan at any given time of the day:
Charlton P25 FleetNet- only the Charlton tower, in scan mode, OPP, MTOE, and MNR.
Charlton MOH FleetNet-only the Charlton tower, generally the Hamilton and Mississauga CACC with some Zone 1 and Zone 2 MOH activities.
Halton P25 South in scan mode, monitoring the 4 fire services and sometimes the Works talkgroups, very valuable, listening to areas that get snow yesterday while we didn't.
FleetNet London dispatch-I'll utilize the Brantford and Woodstock towers to monitor London dispatched OPP, MTOE, and SSM MNR activity.
FleetNet CISO/SURV, the Charlton and Brantford towers cause you never know whatyou might hear .
When mobile, if I am heading east, I have a bank set for Fonthill and Skylon towers. When I worked in Oakville around Speers and 3rd line it's located in a bit of a ditch. It's just on the boundary where Brittania and Mowat are dicey and Charlton falls off. Fonthill is often the strongest tower in the area.
Sometimes I use a bank set for Mowat/Brittania/Fonthill to allow for continuous coverage in Oakville and points east.
I have a bank set for Woodlawn/Cedarwoods, Ballinifad when I go north and west towards the escarpment.
At home I use my 20+ year old Pro 2025 for local air coverage.
I don't like to monitor more than 3 or 4 banks at a time so when I'm home I will use my Home Patrol 1. If I'm at home I. 'll use the 436 to monitor Charlton P25 and Halton's P25 system and let the HP monitor London Dispatch activity.
When mobile in Hamilton on my bike or when I walk the 396T is my go to. It's small and easily put in a pocket. Usually I have Halton P25, Charlton P25 & the Mississauga and Hamilton CACC, sometimes I have a bank to monitor EMS paging and ORNGE activity.
At home, I occasionally monitor the ONQ system. I used to monitor the Waterloo Region EDACS. Even less time monitoring the town of Oakville system, Metrolinx.
When the weather is iffy and different from place to place like yesterday I'll monitor the MTO. I have 2 banks set up, one for GTA/HA towers and another for Brantford and points west.
Occasionally when the weather is nic, and we are having large inversions I use one of my antennas on my balcony and go searching for comms, be it Motorola or whatever radio systems or stuff in the 30-50 MHz range.
I'd love for this thread to be large and I await responses.