[Scan-DC] Survey?

[oldsdoug at hotmail.com]

An old Regency Z60 resides in the Tahoe, monitors Montgomery Fire VHF Ch 2 and Ch 1... there's other stuff programmed into it but not usually listened to.  I do listen to Arlington Fire on VHF if / when I use the Tahoe to go over there to visit friends (he's a firefighter on C-shift at Arlington Station 5, Pentagon City).  A Radio Shack PRO-2023 lives on my desk at school (I work at Montgomery College in Rockville), that scans Montgomery Fire 1 & 2, the college's UHF frequency that Security uses, both fire mutual aid channels, and the helicopter unicom frequency (again, forget what they are and too lazy to look!).  Oh, also MD heli-med and the low-band freq that the MSP helicopters use.

At home, a Plectron scans Montgomery Fire channel 1, another radio shack unit scans fire 2, and the BC-796 is usually activated for fire channels... police only if I hear sirens (!)  :)  The 796 goes with me if I'm out in the Impala and then it scans wherever I'm going.

A second RS scanner at home is on the second floor, again scanning fire.



> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:39:46 -0500
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Survey?
>
> In an effort to get more activity on this list, here's a question... what do
> people scan, and how often?
>
> Here's my own 2 cents:
>
> I scan the Arlington County trunked system all day on work days from my
> office, and much of the evenings at home. I occasionally get organized
> enough to capture the activity automatically using Scanrec
> (www.davee.com/scanrec/) so I can go back and listen to something good that
> I missed.
>
> In the car, I usually scan the Arlington system when I'm within reach; and
> the Virginia State Police when I'm not. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb is always
> on.
>
> I would like to scan a bigger variety of things at the office, but we are in
> a heavily RF-shielded building, and very local stuff is about all I can
> capture. I am line of sight to National Airport (maybe 5 miles away), for
> example, but I can't pick up their tower. Arlington's 800 MHz system gets
> through OK, probably from their site on the big water tower north-side.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
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