[Scan-DC] Suggestions for one (or a few) interesting freqs for long-term monitoring?

[Steve Thompson]

I have a house about 20 miles west of Winchester in Hardy County, WV, and 
keep a scanner up there, but without recording capability.  I just turn it 
on when I am there, which is every weekend or two.

I have never found anything interesting in the vicinity, sad to say.  I 
made a custom aviation scan list that includes the local sectors of 
Washington and Cleveland centers, both UHF and VHF.  Haven't heard a peep 
on the UHF, although the scanner plays well there.  I put in the ANG freqs 
for Martinsburg but hear nothing (maybe they're deployed).

I have another bank available which is WV state police and the county fire 
and sheriff, but it's a dull place to hang out.  Not much but traffic stops.

I have a bank on a different scanner that I use when enroute from Tysons 
Corner to West Virginia (two hour trip), but once I get past Prince William 
County and Dulles, there's not much to hear, even though I have each county 
entered.

It's more entertaining to watch the leaves turn.

Steve, N4TX


At 08:09 PM 2/25/2009, Andrew Clegg wrote:
>I have a weekend place out in Shenandoah County (about 20 miles southwest of
>Front Royal), where I am only able to visit every other weekend or so. In
>between visits, I can leave my scanner and voice-activated recording
>software (ScanRec on a PC) running full time. Given this scenario, what are
>some suggestions for frequencies to monitor? I don't want to record anything
>like the local PD or fire, because over two or three weeks, there will be
>hours and hours of activity that I won't have time to listen to, and most of
>that traffic would be fairly routine anyway.
>
>Over time, I have tried various frequencies including the aviation guard
>channel 121.5 MHz (a fair amount of activity, almost all of it routine); the
>general aviation UHF air-to-ground telephone channels (some activity, very
>occassionally interesting, but usually just rental car and catering
>arrangements); med channels (sometimes interesting); and the ISS downlink
>frequency (never captured a peep).
>
>Can anyone suggest some other interesting frequencies that I could hear out
>in the country, that might not be very active, but likely to be interesting
>when it is? How about medical helicopter freqs? Aviation "company" freqs?
>Military air freqs? I can either monitor one channel full time, or scan
>through several channels, but the goal is to capture over two or three weeks
>enough activity to be interesting, but not so much as to be overwhelming to
>catch up on. I am able to tune any VHF/UHF freq (up to 3 GHz), but my
>discone antenna performance degrades above 1 GHz or so.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions,
>Andy
>
>
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