Where do people find the information that is posted on the reference data base?

[betulie11]

I am curious where people find the information that is posted in the reference database.

I would like to start researching government and business data my local area and share my findings.

In my area RACOM sets up and maintains the majority of the radios, they don’t like to share data in my experiences with them. (I work for the city that they were servicing the radios for and was only able to get 5 talkgroup IDs from them, all of which are rarely used.)

I know the FCC provides frequency and location data. But that does nothing for talk groups or info regarding whether or not the transmissions are digital/analog or encrypted.

 

[wa8pyr]

I am curious where people find the information that is posted in the reference database.

I would like to start researching government and business data my local area and share my findings.

In my area RACOM sets up and maintains the majority of the radios, they don’t like to share data in my experiences with them. (I work for the city that they were servicing the radios for and was only able to get 5 talkgroup IDs from them, all of which are rarely used.)

I know the FCC provides frequency and location data. But that does nothing for talk groups or info regarding whether or not the transmissions are digital/analog or encrypted.

Listening on the scanner and making notes as to who and what you’re hearing is the most common way.

For details of trunked and/or digital systems many folks use one of the control channel decoder programs such as Pro96Com, Unitrunker or DSDPlus.

 

[northstarfire0693]

You also have system users that post information on TRS and conventional systems

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Welcome to the RR forums, @betulie11. As the others above me have mentioned and as has been repeated ad nauseum throughout various threads here: the RR database relies on user submission to stay up to date. I'm an avid database contributor for my region & wherever I may visit but I've got notes I've taken from various stations I've stumbled upon and have sat on for months or even years without an agency identification. Either I'm not in the area often enough to linger on said stations for a long time or if I am, said stations come in weak, traffic is sparse, ambiguous or all of the above. A vast majority of these stations are leased repeater services so those are often the hardest to try and pinpoint end users for. But yes, a lot of studying, note taking, observation, verification & re-verification. For example if I made a submission 10 years ago mapping out an amusement park's radio usage (which at that time would have been analog) I or another contributor would then need to make a return trip years later to see if traffic still exists as noted in the database or if they've upgraded their radio system to (let's say) DMR. There would be no way for the database to reflect this change without someone submitting the updated info

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[dave3825]

I would like to start researching government and business data my local area and share my findings.

I know the FCC provides frequency and location data. But that does nothing for talk groups or info regarding whether or not the transmissions are digital/analog or encrypted.

Where is your local area and have you looked in the database to see what might be available?