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Hope all are doing well/fine as we say good-bye to 2020 which basically "Stink, Stank, Stunk" Did anyone think this year was going to finally end? I want to wish everyone who is a member here a fantastic, healthy and happy New Year! 2020 was a tough year for many, but so many folks managed to stay p...

IF anything is not listed, just means that - No one has shared it, or spent the time [hours/days of monitoring] Keep in mind , tones can be broken down by Company - Engine, Ladder, Ambulance, Rescue, Chief, Quint etc Station - Station 1, Station 2 etc All Call, Working Fire, 2nd Alarm, Coverage Need...

https://www.snewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Massachusetts_Fire_Tone_Outs Nothing different from a normal Monitoring/Scanning. However FTO / aka Pager Tones [Plectron, Motorola etc] do allow you to leave your radio in silent mode, UNTIL your favorite TONES are played [like a FireFighters Pager] Some folks...

Answers to your questions, all are "Depends" - no stock/standard answer. Do you need DMR... who around you is using DMR [mostly business ops, but some government] who do you plan [think future too] on monitoring... see what the Wiki shows currently for that county and state Do you need an external a...

Mounted inside the home office, on a Camera Tripod, Had it for a few years now, used for some of my Event Ops [Amateur at Mt Washington] but finally put it into use with the 898T's I bought from you, that also turned out to be Tapped, so using DSD+, 898T and the Beam http://www.arrowantennas.com/arr...

Starting to look/sound pretty good, getting Masphee UHF RDC NexEdge with the beam aimed North [Back side]

And the usual Lakes Region loud n clear on Disp with stock antennas

Found one we are missing lots of info for our fine wiki, guess some work is seriously needed https://www.snewiki.com/wiki/index.php/New_Hampshire_Commercial_Utilities#New_Hampshire_Electric_Cooperative Con+ on VHF 153.2850 C01 364 New Hampshire Electric Current site: 364-1 https://www.radioreference...

VHF/UHF is wide open, getting MSCommNET from Maine and Lakes Region from NH on stock antennas

http://aprs.mennolink.org/

The L65 wiki finally being built out
https://www.snewiki.com/wiki/index.php/ ... ompany_INC See the Bottom section of the Company as they do Cap+ and NXDN

W1KNE wrote: ↑

27 May 2020 09:49

Gary did a bunch of deciphering on this one a couple of years ago
https://www.scan-ne.net/sne/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=38631

See if you can tune to it first, before wasting your time configuring for something out of your range. OK Thanks...I will try to set this up again and see if it works. The problem I was having wasn't reception cause I havent got that far yet. The problem was ERRORS showing up in activity log when I ...

IGNORE the Radius information from RR, it is only an approximation and all depends on your actual set-up [YMMV] I can hear systems well beyond the RR approximations and then there are others I can not hear at all and I am within that radius Also you have gone too deep right away, back out to [back o...

Didn't DSD+ come with many of the major systems already defaulted ? Wow this SDR radio is VERY complicated! I always keep getting screwed up with all the damn NUMBERS!!! It is very cryptic to me still. I would like to have a cheat sheet of ALL the types of protocols (DMR, NXDN, CAP+, P25) and how to...

I would suggest spending time with the documents of DSD+ and your SDR for help. As to a scanner, all depends on the software you are going to purchase/use, many are very intuitive, if you spend time to digest/read thru it more than once and have it avail for reference regularly Not having a DMR Radi...

Yes - DMR Analog = NO PL aka CSQ or with a PL/CTCSS or DCS tone P25 = NAC displayed as N followed by 3 characters which contain 0-9 and the letters A-F ONLY ie: NAFF DMR contain Coloure Codes which are displayed begining with a C and two digits ie: C01 NXDN contain a RAN [Radio Access Number] which ...

Seems NY west into IL and beyond right now

Scott wrote: ↑

16 Sep 2020 08:33

Bands appear open this morning although I have not had a lot of time to further investigate.

http://aprs.mennolink.org/

Looks like a whopper of an opening just to our west-southwest though! According to the above map when I looked at it at 0833.

Altho fading away, it seems to be more enhanced now into NH/ME

Pease AFB Fire
WMNF
Acadia NP - Interop
and then BP and other assorted other Federal LE's

You might be right and RR DB Wrong for the CC
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?siteId=33960

No SysID listed, which makes it harder to validate

W1KNE wrote: ↑

09 Sep 2020 07:28

Not Nova Scotia power?

Nevermind, they are C05

Tried looking them up via RR with the L8 with no luck, never got any voice channels to log either, just the Control

W1KNE wrote: ↑

09 Sep 2020 07:28

Not Nova Scotia power?

Nevermind, they are C05

Still wide open, nice, NYC Federal is popping into Boston as well as some new UHF [400-420]

Had one, that I seem to be having a problem looking up in RR, any thoughts/help

162.3600 DMR C:01
L8 L8-2.4

Dang, missed it, by "That much"

Scott wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2020 08:20

Just turning one scanner on heard Wayne County PA Fire/EMS 151.415 167.9 and also USCG Station Curtis Bay MD on one of the CG P25 frequencies. Get it while it's hot!

MSCommNet is nice and local, into South Weymouth on inside/stock antennas

Showing pretty good into NS right now
http://aprs.mennolink.org/

Sadly a weekend, with less RF traffic, but then sometimes easier to ID the distances too [trade offs]

W1KNE wrote: ↑

19 Jul 2020 10:05

Both Southold PD and Southampton PD both in on VHF, very clear in the last half hour. This is sticking around some!

Atleast you are using the SEARCH, so many folks may only click directly into/onto the County pages and not realize the other vast information out there in the Wiki, such as the Colleges, Hospitals, Business and Recreational Facilities... Here is a unique link for folks to try https://scan-ne.net/wik...

Your IDAS is likely this Railroad https://scan-ne.net/wiki/index.php?title=NH_Railroad_Communications#New_Hampshire_Northcoast_Railroad_.28Ossipee.2C_NH.29 Hello, I am getting that IDAS (NXDN48) Type-D trunked system on 160.275. DSD+ is decoding it as Area 0 Channel 1. It is not part of a multi-site...

Guess it is not the flame-thrower it used to be, never hear it anymore down into Boston, altho the VHF Hi does kick ! Lakes Region NH Dispatch on 33.900 PL 210.7 is a current daily 24/7 reception here in Londonderry NH. Correct, it's not. Right now they TX on 33.90 only from their dispatch and that ...