📋I've recommended 13 Frequencies that should be in your scanner but I don't want to end on an unlucky number. What would you add to this list as number 14?
I would add some of the frequencies that the Civil Air Patrol use. They are usually aware of a lot of things going on before the police and the news media. And, they are an auxillary of the US Air Force.
I been a scanner nut and ham for many years, and an ute fan, I remember one morning having problems sleeping I got up and was tuned to the ATC of Manila and heard a Malayan flight told by Manila to switch to their VHF Band when I did I had the scanner running and the flight mentioned the trouble maker has left the plane. I found out it had been hijacked and the person bailed out at 7000 feet with a homemade parachute, And I am a longtime Ham who is a member of ARES here in Manila Philippines, my scanner runs 12 hours a day.
The power does not come from the frequency. Nor do you have high power receivers. The power comes from the transmitter. A frequency is what you tune to to hear an audio signal. Such as with your car radio. Receivers are passive listening devices. They might be of better quality than others for greater sensitivity or signal rejection. Transmitters & receivers aren't at the top of the tower. The antenna is at the top of the tower. Transmitters & receivers are on the ground. Simplex radio is single frequency radio. Like CB radios. Duplex is dual frequency. An input freq & an output freq. These freqs are off-set by a few Khz or Mhz, depending on what service you're using (ham radio 2m or GMRS for example). These radios will automatically switch tx & rx frequencies, when set up properly. You want to be listening to the output freq of the repeater so you can hear both sides of a convo.
Professional Engineer/Scientist here. OK, I admit it, I only clicked to see just how bad it was gonna be. This just more misinformation by a guy who has no idea what he is talking about. Why are there so many of these "Dunning Kruger" candidates filling YT with all this nonsense. Are there really that many stupid people out there. Hard to believe that so many sycophantic followers post positive comments. You promise some new useful frequency information, and then never deliver, just lots of pseudo-technical babble.
Awesome video. Analog scanners are still very useful! I still have my analog scanners running all the time. Even have some radios programmed with analog frequencies i monitor that aren't amateur radio frequencies.
Yeah, here the public works is the garbage collection and snow plows. They're more active when they're operating their snow plows before and after big blizzards, than they are when they are collecting garbage, plus they use a repeater so they can be heard anywhere in town.
On more than occasion, I hear various workers cleaning/sweeping the interstate shoulders and other kinds of maintenance, including but not limited to lane closures and mobile lighted sign placements, on the the lower FRS channels. This usually happens after hours, even throughout the night. Often I'll hear flag crews during the day on FRS channel one. Usually, this is done on either bubble pack radios, or the typical B-888 which has as I understand, a few of the FRS channels, factory programmed. Even the local schools use FRS channel one instead of an installed PA.
As terrible as it sounds, you should attempt to listen to the CB radio band (in the States). Contrary to popularity, that band isn't a useless, unused service, especially near the interstate system. There are rare businesses that still use them for yard and security work, in regards to parking and warehouse for assignments and scales. Owner operators still use them to talk amongst themselves. Construction companies, especially dump trucks, oil fields and the like use them frequently. Seemingly across the states. There are strong base stations you could keep up with. Sometimes the lone, simplex type stations that are regulars in your city or town are reliable enough in conversation to give information on weather and traffic conditions. I always include the forty channels like amateur radio simplex channel plans, just in case nothing else passing along similar information or, missed out all together.
On the road, I always monitor CB channel 19. If something happens up ahead, like a lane closure or incident, I know about it way ahead of time. Many times I can avoid the trouble spots.
Still have two in my car and truck. I still use them on long trips and there’s still truckers using them and you can still hear where speed traps are set up
I wouldn't say it's clickbait, but a little misleading. He's talking about types of frequencies, not specific frequencies. He's basically saying to scan hundreds if not thousands of frequencies with this list. 😅
Great video for people that are new to the hobby, and for those who think that since their police are encrypted, now there's nothing to listen to. There is still quite a bit to listen to, and still a lot using analog if you live in a metropolitan area. For those who live near an airport, or even live within a couple hundred miles of an airport, might I suggest monitoring, or searching 129 to 131 Mhz. This part of the airband is used mostly for airline company channels, and in some places you can hear San Francisco Radio Medilink on 131.175 ( and other frequencies in this band segment). I once listened to this link being used to connect a Southwest airplane with a doctor for a passenger who was having some serious medical issues inflight. The interesting transmissions lasted for over an hour. You don't have to be in San Francisco to hear it, as Medilink is linked to airports all across the country. Even if you are not close to an airport, you still could possibly hear the airplane side of the conversation.
Great overview for some key frequencies to plug in. Outside of standard business bands I would recommend dot and star itinerant frequencies as they overlap various users from construction to site security, events to include parking and medical, etc. these are itinerant and may be quiet for some time only to come alive when a big event or project is underway.
I wish a scanner manufacture would manufacture a MOBILE style [square] weather alert with S.A.M.E. so that way they can be mounted in a police car, dispatchers office, commercial office, boat, fire truck, you get the idea. the ones on the markets are all all desk top models...
Thanks for the great info, Phil. Hope your health is doing okay. You look and sound good. I am still enjoying the two G5’s that I purchased from you! Ed
Great Video!!! Well done! A side note to your public safety comments. I live outside of Chicago. Chicago AND my local village went encrypted last year, but to my surprise, not ALL of the frequencies! For example, all of the district police coms and tactical channels went encrypted/digital, but the "City Wide" dispatchers and communications have not! My local PD also went encrypted/digital, but the County Area dispatch frequencies did not, so you can still hear that badge# 123 is asking for registration info for a vehicle that they've pulled over, you can still hear calls that a potentially violent demonstration is moving from one community into another. I would also recommend that you look at MABAS or communal dispatch agencies in your particular area, where the tactical coms for crime/fire fighting may be encrypted, the dispatch calls for ambulance and fire equipment comes from a single, centrally located center for several surrounding communities. Keep up the great work!
Under the business band category I monitor public transportation. The drivers of my town’s two taxi services are always reporting about weather conditions, street conditions and closures, accidents, etc.
That's thinking outside the box! Nice job Bruce. I will sometimes monitor the different school bus companies to get a feel for how bad the roads during the winter months. Same idea but with different drivers.
I used to take taxis often (before uber), I often lived in basement apartments so I could listen to the scanner and I would know when the call was dispatched to my house and I didn't have to stand outside waiting in the rain or snow or cold. I've been wondering if they're still using radios, I would think they're using texting now.
@@Kristinapedia My city is not very large and the 2 taxi companies and the city operated bus all use UHF FM repeaters. They chatter so much that a lot of times I have to lock them out.
There are military aircraft comms that start at 235 MHz up as high as 318MHz. Most are encrypted so it’s no use to listen not to mention that most scanners will not have this band split available in most consumer units. Now if you have deep pockets, AOR makes communications receivers that cover from DC to Light but starting prices start at around $600 and up. Radio service monitors are the top end of prices but they can receive continuous coverage as well but expect to spend $1500 plus but they are NOT scanners, THEIR PURPOSE IS TO ALIGN RADIOS ONLY but they cover the bands, continuously. There are also receivers known as SDR receivers that plug into your computers USB port and run various programs that allow you to listen to various digital formats as well.
Military Auxiliary Radio Service AKA MARS. Air Force and Army MARS frequencies located around 138 to 160 Mhz just outside the Amateur Radio 2M band. You have to search for the frequencies, as they change from region to region. 10 Regions, State to State, and some local military assigned frequencies. Lots of activity on Wednesday nights.
Transit - buses, light rail, subway etc. If there's any problems with roads, or there's a big event, an emergency, or bad weather something will on there, even if its just diversions.
Interesting list. Just one correction on your list of ideas of frequencies: the mention of FRS (family radio service) is actually GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) the FRS frequencies are “channels 1-7” on GMRS programmed radios. So if you correct your list you actually only have 12 ideas.
I live like .1 miles from the Tennessee river and i always monitor marine channel 16. I rarely do anything other tham drive across the river but i still always monitor it. Its the coastguard and maritime liason channel but also the main distress channel for water all over the world. The Ohio valley sector Coastguard is the one i hear multiple times a day. I live in north Alabama but i guess we are in that sector. I think every 6 hours they update on any problems and water levels. Great information relayed constantly.
Military air is not 220 to 400. More like 225 to 380 these days. The 380 to 400 is not used for military aircraft anymore. Still used by the military but it's land-based nowadays and not AM like the mil air frequencies, more like narrow FM and a lot of encrypted stuff. And 222 to 225 is the old 220 ham frequencies. The ham radio 222 - 225 band is also called the 1.25 meter band. They still mostly call it "220" but the first part (220 to 222) was taken away by the FCC and given to railroad operation systems. But not railroad voice traffic. Some kind of digital control stuff.
For aircraft monitoring. If you live close enough to a busy airport to pick up the chatter between a tower and tge planes sitting on the tarmac....it can be absolutely hilarious at times. They can get so frustrated and mad at each other and they say some wiod crap to each other
Correct - while most common Marine frequencies are simplex, some are indeed duplex. Here’s a link that’s a 2:1, the Marine frequencies and from CAP: akwg.cap.gov/media/cms/US_VHF_Marine_Frequency_List_01C6E75413CF3.pdf
Some are "Half Duplex", which are for what few Marine Telephone Operators there still are. Half Duplex meaning that you only hear half of the conversation
Thanks for the recommendations. Most of the police frequencies I listened to are gone now. I have repurposed one of my scanners and am looking for ideas for other things to listen to.
The police in your area might have gone to 800 - 900Mhz trunking. In that case, you could still hear them (if they didn't encrypt) but would have to get a more modern trunking capable scanner. For years most police all over the US was like 154.00 to 156.00 mHz or 450.00 to 465.00 mHz but so many went to 800 to 900 or so megahertz. Up close to the cellular frequncies. I have a few old scanners that don't do trunking so now I just use them to hear aircraft (civilian and military) or the VHF and UHF ham repeaters and simplex.
Heh.... here there are 7 state analog simplex freqs that are set up as CONOPS (contingency operations) that LE, Fire/EMS, tribal, military and everyone in public safety has been authorized to have for over 10 years and still......people can't get on the same page. Well over a decade later and many radios aren't caught up. There is no NIFOG here, For national freqs we have in CONOPS is VCALL 10 (155.7525) which they decided to rename something else. (155.475 is Conops 2...not VLAW31 in NIFOG) *eyeball roll* So anyone coming from anywhere else will probably call them VLAW31 & VCALL 10 as it should be and the people here call it State Hailing and CONOPS 2 so of course that wouldn't create any confusion.
I recommend a murs over the frs murs is on DHS which is a lower frequency frs is higher frequency the lower your frequency is the further you can talk me and my frinds talk on murs at simplex all the time there are 13 mi away FRS on handheld won't reach that far bless you go gmrs to repeaters I'm a member of the Midwest in the repeater system and I talked to Idaho from Indiana Long Island and everywhere else on a handheld have lots of radio friends and it's lots of fun I have multiband transceivers in plus they're also scanners too in frequency mode they will scan all the frequencies till it picks one up and stop's
I bring my scanner to the beach for that reason. This year the coast guard was running an active shooter on a cruise ship drill at of sandy hook. I was able to monitor every agency involved all on analog coast guard 17. Why they would run a drill on that frequency is beyond me becUse any active shooter now k ows the plan
Active shooter response isn’t a secret though specific tactics used will vary and those won’t be readily discernible monitoring radio coms. And FWIW, there are occasions where they want people to hear what they are doing as it can serve as a deterrent and in some cases- feed misinformation to bad guys who are listening.
Hi this is my first time using a radio scanner. The radio scanner is a WHISTLER WS1010. I can listen to Marine, fire/police, air traffic control, ham and weather. The frequency range is 29 up to 512 MHz but the problem is, I can’t hear any of those frequencies, except for weather,( NOAA) and the only two frequencies I listen to is WWH31 Valdosta, Georgia, 162.500 MHz and WXK53 Pelham, Georgia, 162.550 MHz. I live in the southern part of Georgia about 20 minutes from the Florida line and I can’t hear anything from our airport. We also have Moody Air Force Base and I can’t hear anything from there either. We also have a fire and a police department. I can’t hear any of those frequencies and my question is are these frequencies digitally encrypted? do I need to buy another radio scanner or do I need to use my same radio scanner, and get more help on the website for my radio scanner?
Back in the day I had 415.7 in my scanner, air-to-ground of the WHCA Echo/Foxtrot system. Usually I'd hear just Air Force 1 calling Crown, but once in a while there'd be some interesting talk. Sadly this system was decommissioned many years ago.
Thanks for your time and interesting information. It would be great and very appreciated if you could create another video that INCLUDES the FREQUENCIES... ex: 121.800,..156.800 etc.. I know a few but I heard there are more. Thanks again and BTW I subscribed to your Channel. 73's !!!
In the past I listened to all the public service stuff, but now they are mostly encrypted. I live out in the country. Not much on the scanner. I can listen to the local convenience center getting their bins emptied. Sometimes they chew out employees and get mad at each other. I don't listen much any more. Maybe I'll try some of your suggestions.
Hi Phil...when you mentioned both CAP and federal scanning, you also spoke of using non trunking P25 scanners...the BC785 in particular. I'm wondering if you can include a BC796D also...and will it need the expansion card? Thanks in advance.
Scanner school i have 3 scanners one is a hand held scanner and the hand held scanner is 8000 trunking and the two scanners are disktop scanners they are 8000 trunking i listen to railroad my friend
Best frequency is active the most right now in the United States is go to my gmrs linked repeater system for the Midwest but they're Linked In Nationwide different times all those frequencies on the 460 MHz search for instance of repeater that covers Southeast Central Indiana to Cincinnati Ohio Dayton Ohio 462. 650 I'm also an operator on the gmrs Midwest link repeater system
Its Called GMRS for Two Way short distance communications , FRS Also but dont need a License for FRS , GMRS you need too Apply for a $35 FCC License good for Whole family for 10 years
Not many scanners go down that Low for Shortwave Frequencys that I know of , but there are some Sm Portable Low Band Recievers you can carry around in you Pocket
I live in northern Utah County, Utah and it's populated fairly heavily. But NOAA did a crappy job of where to put their transmitter sites. I can't get any NOAA at all!!! They should have pt a transmitter site long the Wasatch mountains just east of Orem and Provo but they didn't. Stupid!! I have 6 different radios, most receivers but also a few Ham transceivers that can hear all 7 NOAA channels but none of them can pick up anything. I'd have to put up a very tall tower to get a NOAA station but my HOA won't let me do that.
I need some help I do not know how to do this I like to ask a question I am new at this I got Windows 11 I wish somebody can help me how's this work on I got software but I don't know how to use it BC125AT I got the software too but I do not do not know nothing about it how to work it I need some help the update the firmware in it I need to update the
You are very WRONG about Amateur Radio. Lots of Tech Talk about equipment and Antennas and More.Lots of Nets. Lots of weekend events and lots of DX talk.As well as emergency coverage. YOU confuse it with CB Radio. Get off the old men kick.
31 minutes of discussion on BANDS to monitor. BANDS are RANGES of frequencies within the spectrum of each SERVICE BAND that you suggest (dozens to hundreds depending on the width of the BAND). NOT ONE single FREQUENCY is provided. Change the title or provide what you say you are man. You’re wasting people’s time. So much blah blah blah that you can get in the back of any scanner manual or Google and so little good information.
I have heard public safety using repeaters and simplex on relatively unused Local Government channels, such as schools and highway maintenance. Search 150.815-151.490/154.680-156.240/ 158.730-159.510 MHz, as well as 453-454 and 460.025-460.625 MHz.
people don’t listen to police because they like listening to the radio. People listen to police to know what going on around them for purposes of personal security. Call it whining if you want but you’re wrong. People who use the radio for really uses make a lot more sense to me than somebody who just sits there in their basement listening to the world happening around them without engaging anything real
I missed adding that bookmark. Thank you for letting me know. Here is where you can jump to #6: ua-cam.com/video/I1sBV0RE5TI/v-deo.htmlsi=3O2hkql7FAOmzlVl&t=892
"Power comming out of these Frequencies" serious? The "power" is comming out of these transmitters! A frequency is how many times a second the magnetic wave changes positive to negitive and back. The frequency of Americas power is near to 60 times a second! Please try and get the information that you are distributing as accurately as possable.
@@glynnetolar4423well not totally true. I recall in my line of work there was a tower in Texas that was of considerable height and was built like a tank. About midway up the thousand plus foot tower there was a deck that was enclosed that housed the transmitters. It was only logical. For efficiency the less coax you use the better the signal emitted and received. Plus the savings in 500 feet of heliax coaxial cable to reach the antennas. Access was through a freight elevator and a backup stairway ( only for the fit ). Never worked on that tower but they had a big write up in one of the professional magazines in the day.
While these are good ideas for things to monitor, But you might want to study and get your Amateur radio license so you have a better understanding of how radio actually works, sometimes power doesn't have much to do with what you hear, radio wave propagation and atmospheric events that can cause a signal to travel well beyond the horizon. Some of the things you mentioned monitoring are questionable, but monitoring ham radio is a great idea. Just some thoughts to help you out.
@@ke4ascAnd atmospheric propagation is not always limited to the HF bands VHF also has atmospheric ducting. Doesn't happen as often and not as far as HF bands can travel. But can reach hundreds of miles. Ask FM DXers or ham radio operators who've talked to people multiple miles away on VHF. I being one of them.
Right Radio Refference is one good Place too Search out Freq's like 2 meter repeaters Scanner freq's and lots more , MyGMRS for Repeater listings too .
📋I've recommended 13 Frequencies that should be in your scanner but I don't want to end on an unlucky number. What would you add to this list as number 14?
I didn't see frequencies, just bands that a person might want to monitor/scan.
I don’t believe in the whole superstition 13 thing, it’s bad luck. 😜
Since you’re a long islander how about FRES? BCFA? I’m on the south shore, Nassau/Suffolk boarder.
I would add some of the frequencies that the Civil Air Patrol use. They are usually aware of a lot of things going on before the police and the news media. And, they are an auxillary of the US Air Force.
I been a scanner nut and ham for many years, and an ute fan, I remember one morning having problems sleeping I got up and was tuned to the ATC of Manila and heard a Malayan flight told by Manila to switch to their VHF Band when I did I had the scanner running and the flight mentioned the trouble maker has left the plane. I found out it had been hijacked and the person bailed out at 7000 feet with a homemade parachute,
And I am a longtime Ham who is a member of ARES here in Manila Philippines, my scanner runs 12 hours a day.
#14 Highway department. In Wisconsin and where there is winter weather, listening to the highway department can be invaluable for road conditions!
The power does not come from the frequency.
Nor do you have high power receivers.
The power comes from the transmitter.
A frequency is what you tune to to hear an audio signal.
Such as with your car radio.
Receivers are passive listening devices. They might be of better quality than others for greater sensitivity or signal rejection.
Transmitters & receivers aren't at the top of the tower. The antenna is at the top of the tower. Transmitters & receivers are on the ground.
Simplex radio is single frequency radio. Like CB radios.
Duplex is dual frequency.
An input freq & an output freq.
These freqs are off-set by a few Khz or Mhz, depending on what service you're using (ham radio 2m or GMRS for example). These radios will automatically switch tx & rx frequencies, when set up properly. You want to be listening to the output freq of the repeater so you can hear both sides of a convo.
Add 121.5 Mhz. This is the aircraft emergency freq. Every major airport and most mid-size airports monitor this freq.
Professional Engineer/Scientist here. OK, I admit it, I only clicked to see just how bad it was gonna be.
This just more misinformation by a guy who has no idea what he is talking about.
Why are there so many of these "Dunning Kruger" candidates filling YT with all this nonsense. Are there really that many stupid people out there.
Hard to believe that so many sycophantic followers post positive comments.
You promise some new useful frequency information, and then never deliver, just lots of pseudo-technical babble.
Awesome video. Analog scanners are still very useful! I still have my analog scanners running all the time. Even have some radios programmed with analog frequencies i monitor that aren't amateur radio frequencies.
#14 Public Works / DOT. Especially during/after storms, info on road situations/blockages/clearing progress.
Great suggestion. I always enjoyed listening to the road crews clearing snow off the roads.
YES! Here in northern IL, it's very helpful listening to our state's DOT plows when it snows.
Yeah, here the public works is the garbage collection and snow plows. They're more active when they're operating their snow plows before and after big blizzards, than they are when they are collecting garbage, plus they use a repeater so they can be heard anywhere in town.
On more than occasion, I hear various workers cleaning/sweeping the interstate shoulders and other kinds of maintenance, including but not limited to lane closures and mobile lighted sign placements, on the the lower FRS channels. This usually happens after hours, even throughout the night. Often I'll hear flag crews during the day on FRS channel one. Usually, this is done on either bubble pack radios, or the typical B-888 which has as I understand, a few of the FRS channels, factory programmed. Even the local schools use FRS channel one instead of an installed PA.
As terrible as it sounds, you should attempt to listen to the CB radio band (in the States). Contrary to popularity, that band isn't a useless, unused service, especially near the interstate system. There are rare businesses that still use them for yard and security work, in regards to parking and warehouse for assignments and scales. Owner operators still use them to talk amongst themselves. Construction companies, especially dump trucks, oil fields and the like use them frequently. Seemingly across the states. There are strong base stations you could keep up with. Sometimes the lone, simplex type stations that are regulars in your city or town are reliable enough in conversation to give information on weather and traffic conditions. I always include the forty channels like amateur radio simplex channel plans, just in case nothing else passing along similar information or, missed out all together.
On the road, I always monitor CB channel 19. If something happens up ahead, like a lane closure or incident, I know about it way ahead of time. Many times I can avoid the trouble spots.
Still have two in my car and truck. I still use them on long trips and there’s still truckers using them and you can still hear where speed traps are set up
I clicked on this thinking you were going to show the FREQUENCY!
Yeah, clickbait title.
I wouldn't say it's clickbait, but a little misleading. He's talking about types of frequencies, not specific frequencies. He's basically saying to scan hundreds if not thousands of frequencies with this list. 😅
Great video for people that are new to the hobby, and for those who think that since their police are encrypted, now there's nothing to listen to. There is still quite a bit to listen to, and still a lot using analog if you live in a metropolitan area. For those who live near an airport, or even live within a couple hundred miles of an airport, might I suggest monitoring, or searching 129 to 131 Mhz. This part of the airband is used mostly for airline company channels, and in some places you can hear San Francisco Radio Medilink on 131.175 ( and other frequencies in this band segment). I once listened to this link being used to connect a Southwest airplane with a doctor for a passenger who was having some serious medical issues inflight. The interesting transmissions lasted for over an hour. You don't have to be in San Francisco to hear it, as Medilink is linked to airports all across the country. Even if you are not close to an airport, you still could possibly hear the airplane side of the conversation.
Great overview for some key frequencies to plug in. Outside of standard business bands I would recommend dot and star itinerant frequencies as they overlap various users from construction to site security, events to include parking and medical, etc. these are itinerant and may be quiet for some time only to come alive when a big event or project is underway.
You've left the most important band of all out! How could you forget the Sat Comm Band !!!!
I wish a scanner manufacture would manufacture a MOBILE style [square] weather alert with S.A.M.E. so that way they can be mounted in a police car, dispatchers office, commercial office, boat, fire truck, you get the idea. the ones on the markets are all all desk top models...
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the Super Thanks! 🎉
If you have a SDR set up then you'll be able to find frequencies that are hidden everywhere
I have the CERT book. Need to get this one. Thanks
Most stuff is encrypted now. Scanning was great in the 90s etc when stuff was analog even mobile phones
I wouldn't say most.
Thanks for the great info, Phil.
Hope your health is doing okay. You look and sound good.
I am still enjoying the two G5’s that I purchased from you!
Ed
Great Video!!! Well done! A side note to your public safety comments. I live outside of Chicago. Chicago AND my local village went encrypted last year, but to my surprise, not ALL of the frequencies! For example, all of the district police coms and tactical channels went encrypted/digital, but the "City Wide" dispatchers and communications have not! My local PD also went encrypted/digital, but the County Area dispatch frequencies did not, so you can still hear that badge# 123 is asking for registration info for a vehicle that they've pulled over, you can still hear calls that a potentially violent demonstration is moving from one community into another. I would also recommend that you look at MABAS or communal dispatch agencies in your particular area, where the tactical coms for crime/fire fighting may be encrypted, the dispatch calls for ambulance and fire equipment comes from a single, centrally located center for several surrounding communities.
Keep up the great work!
im in desplaines il near ord airport
Under the business band category I monitor public transportation. The drivers of my town’s two taxi services are always reporting about weather conditions, street conditions and closures, accidents, etc.
That's thinking outside the box! Nice job Bruce. I will sometimes monitor the different school bus companies to get a feel for how bad the roads during the winter months. Same idea but with different drivers.
I used to take taxis often (before uber), I often lived in basement apartments so I could listen to the scanner and I would know when the call was dispatched to my house and I didn't have to stand outside waiting in the rain or snow or cold. I've been wondering if they're still using radios, I would think they're using texting now.
@@Kristinapedia My city is not very large and the 2 taxi companies and the city operated bus all use UHF FM repeaters. They chatter so much that a lot of times I have to lock them out.
Great job with this informative video. Thanks for sharing!
There are military aircraft comms that start at 235 MHz up as high as 318MHz. Most are encrypted so it’s no use to listen not to mention that most scanners will not have this band split available in most consumer units. Now if you have deep pockets, AOR makes communications receivers that cover from DC to Light but starting prices start at around $600 and up. Radio service monitors are the top end of prices but they can receive continuous coverage as well but expect to spend $1500 plus but they are NOT scanners, THEIR PURPOSE IS TO ALIGN RADIOS ONLY but they cover the bands, continuously.
There are also receivers known as SDR receivers that plug into your computers USB port and run various programs that allow you to listen to various digital formats as well.
Encryption has become the limiting factor with scanners
Thanks for the mention, Phil!
My pleasure. Keep up the great work!
Military Auxiliary Radio Service AKA MARS. Air Force and Army MARS frequencies located around 138 to 160 Mhz just outside the Amateur Radio 2M band. You have to search for the frequencies, as they change from region to region. 10 Regions, State to State, and some local military assigned frequencies. Lots of activity on Wednesday nights.
Transit - buses, light rail, subway etc.
If there's any problems with roads, or there's a big event, an emergency, or bad weather something will on there, even if its just diversions.
Exactly!
Semper Paratus Always Ready !
Interesting list. Just one correction on your list of ideas of frequencies: the mention of FRS (family radio service) is actually GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) the FRS frequencies are “channels 1-7” on GMRS programmed radios. So if you correct your list you actually only have 12 ideas.
Scanner school this is awesome my friend
I live like .1 miles from the Tennessee river and i always monitor marine channel 16. I rarely do anything other tham drive across the river but i still always monitor it. Its the coastguard and maritime liason channel but also the main distress channel for water all over the world. The Ohio valley sector Coastguard is the one i hear multiple times a day. I live in north Alabama but i guess we are in that sector. I think every 6 hours they update on any problems and water levels. Great information relayed constantly.
DOT. and CB Radio
I made a VHF AM radio and I heard someone calling in for a service on his plane just like taking your car in for a service, so funny
There are some wireless microphones that operate in the VHF band. If you are within 200ft., you may be able to hear them.
I live about 1/2 mile across a field from a McDonalds. Sometimes, when quite bored, I'll tune into the drive-thru frequency.
Just getting started. Loved the video!
Military air is not 220 to 400. More like 225 to 380 these days. The 380 to 400 is not used for military aircraft anymore. Still used by the military but it's land-based nowadays and not AM like the mil air frequencies, more like narrow FM and a lot of encrypted stuff. And 222 to 225 is the old 220 ham frequencies. The ham radio 222 - 225 band is also called the 1.25 meter band. They still mostly call it "220" but the first part (220 to 222) was taken away by the FCC and given to railroad operation systems. But not railroad voice traffic. Some kind of digital control stuff.
For aircraft monitoring. If you live close enough to a busy airport to pick up the chatter between a tower and tge planes sitting on the tarmac....it can be absolutely hilarious at times. They can get so frustrated and mad at each other and they say some wiod crap to each other
MARINE FREQUENCIES ARE NOT ALL SIMPLEX, SOME ARE DUPLEX.
I think it was mentioned that the coast guard auxiliary operates off repeaters
Correct - while most common Marine frequencies are simplex, some are indeed duplex. Here’s a link that’s a 2:1, the Marine frequencies and from CAP: akwg.cap.gov/media/cms/US_VHF_Marine_Frequency_List_01C6E75413CF3.pdf
Some are "Half Duplex", which are for what few Marine Telephone Operators there still are. Half Duplex meaning that you only hear half of the conversation
GMRS is great to listen to That's what I operate as well as CB.
Thanks for the recommendations. Most of the police frequencies I listened to are gone now. I have repurposed one of my scanners and am looking for ideas for other things to listen to.
I hope the suggestions in this video help you out.
The police in your area might have gone to 800 - 900Mhz trunking. In that case, you could still hear them (if they didn't encrypt) but would have to get a more modern trunking capable scanner. For years most police all over the US was like 154.00 to 156.00 mHz or 450.00 to 465.00 mHz but so many went to 800 to 900 or so megahertz. Up close to the cellular frequncies. I have a few old scanners that don't do trunking so now I just use them to hear aircraft (civilian and military) or the VHF and UHF ham repeaters and simplex.
13 always was my lucky number
What portable scanner would you suggest someone to buy? I’m looking to get one, but I have no clue. Thanks.
Great info and ideals, Thank you...
Heh.... here there are 7 state analog simplex freqs that are set up as CONOPS (contingency operations) that LE, Fire/EMS, tribal, military and everyone in public safety has been authorized to have for over 10 years and still......people can't get on the same page. Well over a decade later and many radios aren't caught up. There is no NIFOG here, For national freqs we have in CONOPS is VCALL 10 (155.7525) which they decided to rename something else. (155.475 is Conops 2...not VLAW31 in NIFOG) *eyeball roll* So anyone coming from anywhere else will probably call them VLAW31 & VCALL 10 as it should be and the people here call it State Hailing and CONOPS 2 so of course that wouldn't create any confusion.
How do I find these frequencies in my area?
Thank you. Good info.
Very well done piece though. 😀
I recommend a murs over the frs murs is on DHS which is a lower frequency frs is higher frequency the lower your frequency is the further you can talk me and my frinds talk on murs at simplex all the time there are 13 mi away FRS on handheld won't reach that far bless you go gmrs to repeaters I'm a member of the Midwest in the repeater system and I talked to Idaho from Indiana Long Island and everywhere else on a handheld have lots of radio friends and it's lots of fun I have multiband transceivers in plus they're also scanners too in frequency mode they will scan all the frequencies till it picks one up and stop's
I bring my scanner to the beach for that reason. This year the coast guard was running an active shooter on a cruise ship drill at of sandy hook. I was able to monitor every agency involved all on analog coast guard 17. Why they would run a drill on that frequency is beyond me becUse any active shooter now k ows the plan
Active shooter response isn’t a secret though specific tactics used will vary and those won’t be readily discernible monitoring radio coms. And FWIW, there are occasions where they want people to hear what they are doing as it can serve as a deterrent and in some cases- feed misinformation to bad guys who are listening.
Hi this is my first time using a radio scanner. The radio scanner is a WHISTLER WS1010. I can listen to Marine, fire/police, air traffic control, ham and weather. The frequency range is 29 up to 512 MHz but the problem is, I can’t hear any of those frequencies, except for weather,( NOAA) and the only two frequencies I listen to is WWH31 Valdosta, Georgia, 162.500 MHz and WXK53 Pelham, Georgia, 162.550 MHz. I live in the southern part of Georgia about 20 minutes from the Florida line and I can’t hear anything from our airport. We also have Moody Air Force Base and I can’t hear anything from there either. We also have a fire and a police department. I can’t hear any of those frequencies and my question is are these frequencies digitally encrypted? do I need to buy another radio scanner or do I need to use my same radio scanner, and get more help on the website for my radio scanner?
So going by the airport to program is no good?
Back in the day I had 415.7 in my scanner, air-to-ground of the WHCA Echo/Foxtrot system. Usually I'd hear just Air Force 1 calling Crown, but once in a while there'd be some interesting talk. Sadly this system was decommissioned many years ago.
Is it better to have the tower or approach
For #14 a similar vlog for the UK
Thanks for your time and interesting information. It would be great and very appreciated if you could create another video that INCLUDES the FREQUENCIES... ex: 121.800,..156.800 etc.. I know a few but I heard there are more.
Thanks again and BTW I subscribed to your Channel.
73's !!!
Unfortunately, I also need the encryption key for the frequency for my local Sheriff's Office, and that is VERY elusive...
In the past I listened to all the public service stuff, but now they are mostly encrypted. I live out in the country. Not much on the scanner. I can listen to the local convenience center getting their bins emptied. Sometimes they chew out employees and get mad at each other. I don't listen much any more. Maybe I'll try some of your suggestions.
The police and other agencies that went digital often are trunked and not encrypted. Obviously, all the tactical frequencies are encrypted.
Hi Phil...when you mentioned both CAP and federal scanning, you also spoke of using non trunking P25 scanners...the BC785 in particular. I'm wondering if you can include a BC796D also...and will it need the expansion card? Thanks in advance.
Where can I get the national interoperable the field operation guide
Scanner school i have 3 scanners one is a hand held scanner and the hand held scanner is 8000 trunking and the two scanners are disktop scanners they are 8000 trunking i listen to railroad my friend
So, this video is NOT worldwide valid, but for US only.
Cheers!
Best frequency is active the most right now in the United States is go to my gmrs linked repeater system for the Midwest but they're Linked In Nationwide different times all those frequencies on the 460 MHz search for instance of repeater that covers Southeast Central Indiana to Cincinnati Ohio Dayton Ohio 462. 650 I'm also an operator on the gmrs Midwest link repeater system
Curious, what are the 13 frequencies?
They are trunking mode
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How can I hook up with this guy Chris that you mentioned
short wave
Not many scanners go down that Low for Shortwave Frequencys that I know of , but there are some Sm Portable Low Band Recievers you can carry around in you Pocket
I heard pilots fly over the bay of Green Bay they were practicing doing air stunts. I thought that was interesting.
I'm never without power. Back up generator.
I live in northern Utah County, Utah and it's populated fairly heavily. But NOAA did a crappy job of where to put their transmitter sites. I can't get any NOAA at all!!! They should have pt a transmitter site long the Wasatch mountains just east of Orem and Provo but they didn't. Stupid!! I have 6 different radios, most receivers but also a few Ham transceivers that can hear all 7 NOAA channels but none of them can pick up anything. I'd have to put up a very tall tower to get a NOAA station but my HOA won't let me do that.
Did you try an Outdoor Amtenna on Ground or Roof ?
I need some help I do not know how to do this I like to ask a question I am new at this I got Windows 11 I wish somebody can help me how's this work on I got software but I don't know how to use it BC125AT I got the software too but I do not do not know nothing about it how to work it I need some help the update the firmware in it I need to update the
Same here. I got new radios and am lost
Plenty of You Tube Vids to go look at and also Just search the Scanner Model on the Web Google Search
So what dose everyone listen to now that we cant listen to the police?
If there is a mountain between to marine stations, you have more problems than antenna height, EEEKKK
You are very WRONG about Amateur Radio. Lots of Tech Talk about equipment and Antennas and More.Lots of Nets. Lots of weekend events and lots of DX talk.As well as emergency coverage. YOU confuse it with CB Radio. Get off the old men kick.
31 minutes of discussion on BANDS to monitor. BANDS are RANGES of frequencies within the spectrum of each SERVICE BAND that you suggest (dozens to hundreds depending on the width of the BAND). NOT ONE single FREQUENCY is provided. Change the title or provide what you say you are man. You’re wasting people’s time. So much blah blah blah that you can get in the back of any scanner manual or Google and so little good information.
I have heard public safety using repeaters and simplex on relatively unused Local Government channels, such as schools and highway maintenance. Search 150.815-151.490/154.680-156.240/ 158.730-159.510 MHz, as well as 453-454 and 460.025-460.625 MHz.
people don’t listen to police because they like listening to the radio. People listen to police to know what going on around them for purposes of personal security. Call it whining if you want but you’re wrong. People who use the radio for really uses make a lot more sense to me than somebody who just sits there in their basement listening to the world happening around them without engaging anything real
I dont believe having the marine frequencies will work for my location, im in the rocky mountains and ive yet to hear anything on thise frequencies
Police Helecopters?
What happened to #6?
I missed adding that bookmark. Thank you for letting me know. Here is where you can jump to #6: ua-cam.com/video/I1sBV0RE5TI/v-deo.htmlsi=3O2hkql7FAOmzlVl&t=892
Fine if you live in the US. Does anyone actually live anywhere else.... lol!
"Power comming out of these Frequencies" serious? The "power" is comming out of these transmitters! A frequency is how many times a second the magnetic wave changes positive to negitive and back. The frequency of Americas power is near to 60 times a second! Please try and get the information that you are distributing as accurately as possable.
Not to mention the transmitters are rarely on the tower. That just makes servicing difficult. They are usually in the building.
In interest of accuracy, "coming" only has one "m". :)
@@glynnetolar4423well not totally true. I recall in my line of work there was a tower in Texas that was of considerable height and was built like a tank. About midway up the thousand plus foot tower there was a deck that was enclosed that housed the transmitters. It was only logical. For efficiency the less coax you use the better the signal emitted and received. Plus the savings in 500 feet of heliax coaxial cable to reach the antennas. Access was through a freight elevator and a backup stairway ( only for the fit ). Never worked on that tower but they had a big write up in one of the professional magazines in the day.
While these are good ideas for things to monitor, But you might want to study and get your Amateur radio license so you have a better understanding of how radio actually works, sometimes power doesn't have much to do with what you hear, radio wave propagation and atmospheric events that can cause a signal to travel well beyond the horizon. Some of the things you mentioned monitoring are questionable, but monitoring ham radio is a great idea. Just some thoughts to help you out.
@@ke4ascAnd atmospheric propagation is not always limited to the HF bands VHF also has atmospheric ducting. Doesn't happen as often and not as far as HF bands can travel. But can reach hundreds of miles. Ask FM DXers or ham radio operators who've talked to people multiple miles away on VHF. I being one of them.
The only thing I know about the number 13 is that it comes after the number 12.
HAHA ! funny how that works
No numbers just you talking
Can you flail your hands just a tad less
Can you p[lease write very clearly in the title: USA ONLY, as I just wasted my time again, listening to some gobble dee goob from a US Only UA-cam.
Boring. Might have made an interest 5 minute video.
This guy has no idea what he is talking about.
Make a video about 13 freq you need in 2024, but never give the frequencies. brilliant waste of server space.
Save you some time, JUST GO ONLINE AND PRINT THE LIST.
THIS, person.
Right Radio Refference is one good Place too Search out Freq's like 2 meter repeaters Scanner freq's and lots more , MyGMRS for Repeater listings too .