[Scan-DC] Inside the WTOP Traffic Center

[David Schoenberger]

There is also a traffic reporting service on the FleetTalk Connect Plus system:

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=7676

I believe Traffic.com was on the Silver Spring FleetTalk LTR system previously, so maybe it's them.

Dave

On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Dewey3 <dewey3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> They "flipped" their ops close to ten years ago.  The repeater input in now
> on the low side (450), and the repeater output is on the high (455) side.
> 
> Dewey
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jeff Krauss <jeff at krauss.ws> wrote:
> 
>> What frequency do they use for their mobile comms?
>> I used to listen to the traffic reporters on the road when WTOP contracted
>> it out to Metro Traffic on 450.2375.
>> http://www.metronetworks.com/
>> But since then I hear nothing.
>> 
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>> 
>> At 10:18 AM 1/6/2014, Blair Thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hat tip, DCRTV.com/mailbag
>>> 
>>> http://ajr.org/inside-wtop-traffic-center/
>>> 
>>> Curious how the team at WTOP churns out the amount of news it does on
>>> traffic?
>>> 
>>> It's a combination of listening to the scanner, monitoring social media
>>> and reader tips, confirming through reporting and more, say the radio
>>> journalists who work at the DC-based WTOP Traffic Center, part of the CBS
>>> affiliate that covers news, traffic and weather for 103.5 FM and online at
>>> wtop.com
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