[Scan-DC] CHM FAQ

[ka3jjz at netscape.com]

 I'd like to introduce all our new folks to the Capitol Hill Monitors (CHM) website.  This website is a collection of pages devoted to collecting links with useful frequency, trunking and system information
for our coverage area. We cover all of Maryland, the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and southern Delaware. The site is open to all, regardless of membership. 

 The site is organized into seperate pages, each of which has its own function.

- The main page, which gives you a little lowdown on the CHM, and some fast links into our site. A link to previous issues of the Capitol Hill Monitors newsletters, some of which are in PDF format, is also available here.

- The Introduction page, which has many miscellaneous links.  There's a little here for a lot of different interests; milair, railfans, NASCAR, aircraft are all covered in this section. You will also find links to some popular magazines' website, as well as for other mailing lists which might be of interest

- The regional pages. Each region is covered by a single page seperated into categories, which include;

  Trunking information

  Conventional frequency information

  Amateur Radio Links - for those hams and scannists that want to know about repeaters in this area

  Online audio and IRLP - 2 very popular functions. Here you will find online scanners for this area, as well as links to Internet Radio Linking Protocol (IRLP) sites. Basically, this is one of 2 popular   packages (the other is called Echolink) used by hams to tie a repeater into the Internet using Voice over IP technology. So if you hear an exotic location on a local machine, chances are good that it is using
one of these protocols

  Other mailing lists - There are a few other scanning related mailing lists besides Scan-DC; the most active of these can be found on the popular RadioReference website.  The Virginia page also lists 2 other scanning related clubs.

- The Scanners page - Here we've collected numerous links for most every model of scanner out there that has a useful page.  Included are Yahoo groups where you can get support and operational questions answered, as well as some groups hosted on QTH.net. Of particular use to the newcomer is the digital trunkers section; here we have gathered all the known mailing lists, pages and links for the Uniden and RS digital trunktrackers. If you have questions about these new scanners, this is a very good place to start.  Numerous battery manufacturers and dealers are listed at the bottom of the page. Some places to find scanner reviews are also presented here.

- The ARC250 and .p96 library pages. These pages hold programming files for the 2 most popular software packages for the digital trunktrackers; ARC250 from BuTel Software supports the Uniden digital trunktrackers. The .p96 file extension is used for Win96, which supports the PRO96/2096 digital scanners from Radio Shack. Folks are strongly encouraged to add to these pages, particularly for those areas that are not yet covered.  The more files we get, the more useful the library will become.  

- The Maryland fire/rescue page - this page lists the known frequencies, by county, for fire dispatch and EMS operations.  Links are provided, where known, to RadioReference for talkgroup information.  As more and more communities migrate from their conventional systems, these frequencies will change; your help is needed to keep things up to date

- The Delaware Fireboards page - this page lists the many vhf/uhf transmitters that communities have set up for relaying fire dispatches and some fire related trunking traffic.  These transmitters are often rather low power with simple antennas, so hearing some of them is a challenge.

  The URL to check for all this information is:  http://henney.com/chm

  If you find a page that should be listed, broken links, and so on, please let ka3jjz 'at' netscape 'dot' com know so it can be corrected. Files for the ARC250 and .p96 pages should be forwarded to alan 'at' henney 'dot' com for posting.  Thanks for reading this; 73s and enjoy the site.    


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