[Scan-DC] RE: Scan-DC Digest, Vol 25, Issue 1
Philip Szczepanski
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Mon May 1 16:52:25 EDT 2006
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> 1. RE: Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking (Doug K.)
> 2. Re: Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking (John Antonelli)
> 3. Annual MT Airshow Column Now Online (Larry Van Horn, N5FPW)
> 4. Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in vicinity of Andrews
> AFB (dehm)
> 5. Re: Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in vicinity of
> Andrews AFB (b_thom at juno.com)
> 6. Re: Re: [Scan-DC] Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in
> vicinity of Andrews AFB (b_thom at juno.com)
> 7. Search and Rescue Mission Update (Alan Henney)
> 8. An almost scamble last night.. (dehm)
> 9. Kennedy Center Security (David Schoenberger)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:23:13 -0400
> From: "Doug K." <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> To: scan-dc at djbitz.com, scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <BAY101-F3909EB2CD61EF06F225436C2BE0 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
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> Thanks John, would you believe that in that usa.zip file there is one
> Arlington file - that's the one I have and no workie!
>
> I just got off the phone with a friend who's an Arlington firefighter,
but
> he knows nothing about the trunked system... he had to run, his son was
> fussing, but i'm going to get back with him.
>
> So far no luck, but thanks anyway.
>
> Will email you a copy of my mem file this week, and anybody else that
wants
> it (email me privately)... I can't remember whatall I have programmed,
most
> of it is Maryland stuff... will post a list, but I know I have
Montgomery,
> Howard, Frederick. Also Ocean City, Worcester County, and Sussex County
> Delaware - all of those are known good and working.
>
> Regards,
>
> Doug
>
>
> >From: "John Bacon" <scan-dc at djbitz.com>
> >To: "'Doug K.'" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>,<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> >Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:29:24 -0400
> >
> >Doug try this
> >
> >http://www.scannermaster.com/downloadables/usa.zip
> >
> >This is what ScannerMaster has together. Also when you have you 796 setup
> >please let me know. I'd like to copy you MEM file for when I go down
there.
> >
> >Thanks
> >JOHN
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Doug K. [mailto:oldsdoug at hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:35 PM
> >To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> >Subject: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> >
> >Hope this isn't a duplicate, email seems to be acting up...
> >
> >Greetings, List!
> >
> >I've been off for awhile... time has been at a premium and so I needed to
> >drop off...
> >
> >Need some help - I have a Uniden BC-796 and have been fairly successful
at
> >programming it, using the ARC-250 software.
> >
> >But... I _cannot_ seem to scan Arlington VA, no matter what I do... have
> >written 3 different programs myself, plus downloaded one that I found on
> >the
> >
> >yahoo scanner group... nothing seems to work; my radio doesn't seem to
> >recognize any of the programming for Arlington as a trunked system (works
> >fine on Montgomery trunking).
> >
> >I have gotten info on Arlinton from radioreference.com and used that...
> >also
> >
> >checked the FCC database, and guess what - the frequencies shown there
> >don't
> >
> >match up with what's on radioreference!
> >
> >Have written programs using both sets of frequencies, to no avail.
> >
> >So:
> >
> >Does anybody have any thoughts?
> >
> >Does anyone have an ARC-250 .mem file for Arlington that is known to be
> >working?
> >
> >Does anyone have any info on the Arlington system/frequencies, settings,
> >etc?
> >
> >Thanks in advance - I have also downloaded the list archives from 2006
and
> >2005, will look thru them shortly... I have a new computer and don't have
> >all the utilities (WinZip) installed yet - gonna do that right now!
Thanks
> >again!
> >
> >Doug in Gaithersburg - deaf to Arlington!
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:26:22 -0400
> From: John Antonelli <Johnantonelli at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> To: "Doug K." <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <444C455E.5080802 at verizon.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Doug K. wrote:
> > Thanks John, would you believe that in that usa.zip file there is one
> > Arlington file - that's the one I have and no workie!
> >
> > I just got off the phone with a friend who's an Arlington firefighter,
> > but he knows nothing about the trunked system... he had to run, his
> > son was fussing, but i'm going to get back with him.
> >
> > So far no luck, but thanks anyway.
> >
> > Will email you a copy of my mem file this week, and anybody else that
> > wants it (email me privately)... I can't remember whatall I have
> > programmed, most of it is Maryland stuff... will post a list, but I
> > know I have Montgomery, Howard, Frederick. Also Ocean City, Worcester
> > County, and Sussex County Delaware - all of those are known good and
> > working.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >> From: "John Bacon" <scan-dc at djbitz.com>
> >> To: "'Doug K.'" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>,<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> >> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> >> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:29:24 -0400
> >>
> >> Doug try this
> >>
> >> http://www.scannermaster.com/downloadables/usa.zip
> >>
> >> This is what ScannerMaster has together. Also when you have you 796
> >> setup
> >> please let me know. I'd like to copy you MEM file for when I go down
> >> there.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> JOHN
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Doug K. [mailto:oldsdoug at hotmail.com]
> >> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:35 PM
> >> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: [Scan-DC] Need help - Arlington Fire Trunking
> >>
> >> Hope this isn't a duplicate, email seems to be acting up...
> >>
> >> Greetings, List!
> >>
> >> I've been off for awhile... time has been at a premium and so I
> >> needed to
> >> drop off...
> >>
> >> Need some help - I have a Uniden BC-796 and have been fairly
> >> successful at
> >> programming it, using the ARC-250 software.
> >>
> >> But... I _cannot_ seem to scan Arlington VA, no matter what I do...
have
> >> written 3 different programs myself, plus downloaded one that I found
> >> on the
> >>
> >> yahoo scanner group... nothing seems to work; my radio doesn't seem to
> >> recognize any of the programming for Arlington as a trunked system
> >> (works
> >> fine on Montgomery trunking).
> >>
> >> I have gotten info on Arlinton from radioreference.com and used
> >> that... also
> >>
> >> checked the FCC database, and guess what - the frequencies shown
> >> there don't
> >>
> >> match up with what's on radioreference!
> >>
> >> Have written programs using both sets of frequencies, to no avail.
> >>
> >> So:
> >>
> >> Does anybody have any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Does anyone have an ARC-250 .mem file for Arlington that is known to be
> >> working?
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any info on the Arlington system/frequencies,
settings,
> >> etc?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance - I have also downloaded the list archives from
> >> 2006 and
> >> 2005, will look thru them shortly... I have a new computer and don't
> >> have
> >> all the utilities (WinZip) installed yet - gonna do that right now!
> >> Thanks
> >> again!
> >>
> >> Doug in Gaithersburg - deaf to Arlington!
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Scan-DC mailing list
> >> Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> >> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> There is an Arlington file in the BCd396T yahoo group that can work for
you
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:24:47 -0400
> From: "Larry Van Horn, N5FPW" <n5fpw at brmemc.net>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Annual MT Airshow Column Now Online
> To: "MILCOM" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: scan-dc <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>, RadioMonitors at yahoogroups.com,
> pdxmilcom at yahoogroups.com, northeastmilair at yahoogroups.com,
> fedcom at mailman.qth.net, socalmilcom at yahoogroups.com
> Message-ID: <017c01c667a2$7613cd90$6400000a at Larry>
>
> I am pleased to announce that those of you who are not subscribers to
> Monitoring Times (shame on you) can now view MT's Annual Milcom Airshow
> column, the March 2006 edition, with the latest airshow freqs, skeds and
> receiving equipment, everything you need to enjoy the airshow experience
> with your scanner. It is available for free in our MT Reference Library
at
> http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/reference_library.html. The column
is
> in adobe pdf format. So enjoy.
>
> And as always this yearly list could not be possible without those of you
> who attend these shows giving us feedback. So I renew my regular request.
If
> you attend a show and even if the freqs you hear are on our list, please
> pass them along to me anyway. This keeps the active freqs on list and
helps
> me delete the old and no longer used freqs off (yes I can and do delete
> freqs). ;-))) I am especially interested in any and all reports from
> overseas airshows and civilian aero acts please. You can send me reports
> directly at larryvanhorn at monitoringtimes.com or post them here onlist.
> Either way I will see them and add them to the stack. I want to thank to
all
> those who have reported so far (we have over 50 airshow related reports
so
> far this season).
>
> So when someone on list ask the question (and they will), "I'm going to
the
> 'blank' airshow and I need freqs. Where can I find the current freqs in
> use?" Send them to the MT website and have them download the MT March
2006
> airshow report. Its free and will give them some accurate info to work
with.
>
> 73 all and good hunting,
>
> Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
> MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist
> Assistant Editor Monitoring Times
> Founding Father Milcom, Fedcom and Trunkcom
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:39:28 -0400
> From: dehm <dehmmy at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in vicinity of
> Andrews AFB
> To: scan-dc <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID:
> <4061d8e30604271139l343b759av30d9da83a28a80b8 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Channel 5 News reports the sighting of 2 Wildcats in vicinity of
> Andrews AFB. All 3 nearby elementary schools closed and children kept
> inside.
>
> I have nothing further and have found nothing in the online news realm
> about it as its a breaking story.
>
> Anyone in the area that can scan around and let us know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:02:56 -0400
> From: b_thom at juno.com
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in vicinity
> of Andrews AFB
> To: dehmmy at gmail.com, scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <20060427.150257.-212621.0.b_thom at juno.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:39:28 -0400 dehm <dehmmy at gmail.com> writes:
> > Channel 5 News reports the sighting of 2 Wildcats in vicinity of
> > Andrews AFB.
>
> Wow! I'm coming out to see those.
>
> Oh, wait. You didn't mean these:
> http://www.warbirdalley.com/f4f.htm
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:27:46 -0400
> From: b_thom at juno.com
> Subject: Re: Re: [Scan-DC] Channel 5 News Report of 2 Wildcats in
> vicinity of Andrews AFB
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <20060427.172748.-125033.1.b_thom at juno.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:52:17 -0500 (CDT) Michael Rumberg
> <michael.rumberg at verizon.net> writes:
> > it could be more dangerous then you think: last year (maybe it was
> > '04) some ANG birds shot up a NJ elementary school.....
>
> Oh, I remember that.
>
> Back in 1994, the Vancouver WA police started getting calls about a
> wildcat seen inside the city limits. The cat chose April 1 to make its
> visit, so the police initially told the callers to get off the line. It
> was no joke, though.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:53:34 -0400
> From: "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Search and Rescue Mission Update
> To: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <000701c66c6e$3fbe5b40$0400a8c0 at COMPAQEvo>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Solomon, Steven
> Sent: Sun 4/30/2006 9:19 AM
> Subject: RE: Search and Rescue Mission Update
>
> STEVEN SOLOMON, Capt, CAP
> MDWG Public Affairs Officer
> web site: http://www.mdcap.org/
>
> For on site information, contact:
> Major Wes LaPre
> Mission Information Officer
> 301-717-3376
>
> 4/30/2006 -- Hagerstown, MD- 9:20 a.m. -- The Civil Air Patrol is
> continuing to search today for a missing pilot, with aircrews and
> ground teams focusing on an area northwest of Hagerstown, Md., where
> the pilot is thought to have been practicing his flying skills.
> The area is being searched because a cellphone belonging to the pilot
> is believed to be in the vicinity, an FAA radar plot indicates it is
> where he was flying, and witnesses have reported seeing or hearing
> something consistent with an airplane crash.
>
> CAP is using its Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced
> Recon (ARCHER) system in its newest aircraft -- the Gippsland GA8
> Airvan -- which has the capability to identify specific objects or
> substances when light that is reflected from an object matches a
> spectral signature that is identified as an anomaly.
>
> Another CAP aircraft is flying at a higher altitude in order to
> provide better radio communication between the ground teams and the
> mission base at Hagerstown Regional Airport.
>
> A Maryland State Police Helicopter is also flying again today in
> support of the search and rescue mission, to coordinate assistance
> from a search and rescue mounted team porovided by Trail Riders of
> Today and a ground team from the Maryland Department of Natural
> Resources, in the Indian Springs Wildlife Managemenrt Area in Clear
> Springs, Md.
>
> Yesterday, 369 CAP members from its wings in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
> Virginia, West Virginia, National Capital, and North Carolina
> participated in the mission, as well as units from CAP's North East
> Region and the Congressional Squadron. Members from CAP's Delaware and
> New Jersey wings are also assisting. There were 33 aircraft used
> yesterday, including the GA-8 Airvan and a Maryland State Police
> helicopter.
>
> "Search efforts are continuing today and we ask that if anyone has
> information they believe could help us to please call our mission base
> at 301-791-5342," said Lt. Col. Kevin Redman, CAP's incident commander
> for the mission today. "We are actively investigating all leads."
>
> Yesterday was also the start of turkey hunting season, so CAP, in
> coordination with the other participants in the search, is reminding
> the public that search and rescue personnel will be in the wooded
> areas and in the mountains of south central Pennsylvania and northern
> Maryland and to exercise extreme caution.
>
> The family of the missing pilot who is the object of the search is
> asking for help from the public.
>
> "We ask that anyone with information that can help us find our
> husband, father and friend, please contact CAP as soon as possible. We
> hope that farmers in the area will search their fields and any local
> residents noting anything suspicious that could be of use to the
> searchers in completing their mission will call," said the family of
> pilot David K. Weiss, 72, of Bethesda Md., in a statement.
>
> Weiss took off shortly after noon on April 25 from Gaithersburg
> Airport in Maryland, and was due back at 2:30 p.m. He was flying a
> blue and white Cessna 172, operated by the Congressional Flying Club.
> Last contact with the pilot was when the aircraft was leaving the
> Washington Air Defense Identification Zone at 12:17 p.m.
>
> Participants in the search are receiving meals from the Washington
> County Chapter of the American Red Cross and lodging from the
> Maugansville-Goodwill Fire Co.
>
> Weiss was seen conducting a pre-flight inspection of the aircraft by
> himself, so it is believed that he was the only person on board.
>
> The search was activated by the U.S. Air Force Rescue Coordination
> Center at Langley Air Force.
>
> There are approximately 1,300 members of CAP in Maryland. Last fiscal
> year wing members flew 34 search and rescue missions and were credited
> with 23 finds.
>
> CAP, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit
> organization with more than 57,000 members nationwide. CAP volunteers
> perform 95 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue
> missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and
> also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug
> missions at the request of federal, state, and local agencies.
>
> Last fiscal year more than 1,800 of CAP’s dedicated members helped
> hurricane victims; CAP aviators and aerial observers flew more than
> 1,000 air missions; ground teams performed 131 missions and visited
> 4,266 homes; and other volunteers distributed 30,000 pounds of relief
> supplies. CAP members also conducted 2,507 search and rescue missions,
> saving 73 lives.
>
> Throughout the year, CAP also took part in important homeland security
> missions; many CAP pilots flew target-intercept training for U.S.
> fighter pilots.
>
> For search updates go to http://mdcap.org.
> ###
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:52:21 -0400
> From: dehm <dehmmy at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] An almost scamble last night..
> To: scan-dc <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID:
> <4061d8e30605010552n110a8c55m2af6c50e269f4f9e at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> Sunday ~ 4:00 - 5:00 pm 04/30/2006
> --------------------------------
> 124.65 - ATC calls ROSS 101 (FBI craft doing his "duties" in the area"
> who ended up landing at Manassas (133.1 MHz...) and explains there is
> a craft just ahead of him whom has lost or not established comms with
> ATC. ROSS 101 volunteers to catch up to it and get the tail #. ATC
> explains that they are about to scramble fighters on the craft if it
> can't establish comms etc etc. ROSS 101 barely catches up but cannot
> get a reading on it. ATC comes back saying that they have established
> communications with the craft and ROSS 101 may go back to doing his
> "duties". ROSS 101 shortly thereafter heads towards Manassas and
> switches to their tower on 133.1. I never did hear the unid'd craft
> neither on 124.65 or 121.5. Must have been off freq?
>
> Anyways.. a scramble avoided!
>
> -Jay
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:35:18 -0400
> From: "David Schoenberger" <davidschoenberger at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Kennedy Center Security
> To: ScanDC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID:
> <90b6a1ca0605010935t3a8b6a06x75bd2a821885059 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Yesterday I found where Kennedy Center security has been hanging out
> (I believe they've been somewhat elusive?) They're on 408.4500 (input
> 417.4500) using LTR PassPort. I'm not sure if there are other
> frequencies in their PassPort system. I couldn't hear the data bursts
> every two seconds when I was on the Mall, so I guess the system must
> have limited range around the Kennedy Center.
>
> 408.4500 was previously a part of the NTIA Federal Motorola trunked
> system. I guess this system is being disbanded in favor of PassPort
> systems (mostly for Smithsonian), and the P-25 digital 380/406
> systems.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
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