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

Sun Mar 1 18:15:16 EST 2009

Thanks Ron! For this week, I left the scanner recording on search between 128.95 - 132 MHz, which is where airline and aviation support companies have their air-to-ground frequencies for logistics and maintenance issues. I figured with the impending bad weather, there might be some interesting activity on these channels.

I'll try some of these other aviation freqs on an upcoming week. Thanks for the list!

Cheers,
Andy

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mdmonitor1 at verizon.net 
  To: Steve Thompson 
  Cc: Andrew Clegg ; Scan DC 
  Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:06 AM
  Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Suggestions for one (or a few) interesting freqs for long-term monitoring?

  Andy,

  Here's some to try:

  297.0 Pikeside--167th AS WVA ANG Martinsburg
  227.125 ZDC Martinsburg
  226.675 ZDC Elkins
  285.6 ZDC Blue Ridge
  270.35 ZDC Shenandoah
  257.85 ZOB Bluefield
  317.45 ZOB Moon Township
  369.25 ZOB Moon Township369.9 ZOPB Wayland
  316.05 ZOB Wayland
  239.3 ZOB Morgantown
  351.8 ZOB Warren
  363.035 ZOB Altoona
  288.1 ZID Zanesville
  307.3 ZID Cahrleston
  385.6 ZID Charleston
  292.2 1st Helo Sqdn ADW
  297.5 1st Helo Sqdn ADW
  141.7 AM 1st Helo Sqdn
  126.2/241.0 Mt Weather
  228.9 DC CAP
  320.6 DC CAP

  Ron
  Baltimore MD
  VHF/UHF: BC-895XLT/RS Pro-2045
  Diamond D-130J discone 
  HF: Icom R75 & Sangean ATS 909
  45-ft EF-SWL & 70-ft random wire

  On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at  8:31 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:

  > 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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