http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/ Scanner Radio Discussion for DFW, TX Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:48:23 GMT ke5vxs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31322 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31322 Parker Fire Dept is training on there channel 2. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:48:11 GMT ke5vxs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31321 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31321 Parker Fire Dept is training on there channel 2. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:00:34 GMT Blaine Brooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31320 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31320 ... Thanks Bill. A guy down in San Antonio has also confirmed this being used by USMS with a NAC of 293. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:50:35 GMT Bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31319 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31319 Blaine, from my notes and travels this one has been captured as: US Marshals for the Court Security Officers [CSO] Kansas City MO reports of 127.3 and P25 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:06 GMT Blaine Brooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31318 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31318 Captured a new (at least to ME) P25 frequency yesterday.... 170.800 NAC 293....some surveillance in the clear, but mostly encrypted... I'm pretty sure it's Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:54:27 GMT Blaine Brooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31317 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31317 Just turned on scanner, and caught Celina FD with a working fire. Interior units sound like they now have it under control. Never got an address or better Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:36:47 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31316 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31316 Interesting Paul...I did not know this. I was thinking the cellular analog to digital switch was (in a way) like the mandated digital TV switch. As I Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:51:59 GMT hiegtx http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31315 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31315 Don't forget the scanner comparison chart on "Mark's Scanners" (home of the 'easier to read manual pages) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:19:55 GMT Gary Persons http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31314 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31314 They must have change numbers in the past 5 years. Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:38:48 GMT Andrew Tucker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31313 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31313 A guy in my fire academy class did that at one of our live burns, we were lucky someone didnt get killed. What our hose did was stand up vertically in the bed Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:12:14 GMT ke5vxs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31312 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31312 My dept got dispatched to a Mutual aid structure fire the other night. The structure was at lest 1000 ft off the roadway. So the first in engine layed in and Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:00:21 GMT Blaine Brooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31311 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31311 ... Thank arrogant "well, quite frankly" Newt Gingrich and his cronies for a lot of that BS, and the idiots that were heading up the FCC and ECPA at the time. Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:37:01 GMT Paul Opitz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31310 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31310 Actually, in some areas of the country (primarily rural served by small providers) analog cellular in those bands is still alive. The FCC just stopped Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:30:17 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31309 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31309 This site brings up a question I've wondered about for a while now. Why is the cellular (824 - 849 & 869 - 894 MHz) band still blocked since there is no more Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:32:26 GMT Michael Cameron http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31308 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfwscan/message/31308 I would add that the new RS PRO-107 (made by GRE) is a paradigm shift in scanners. First we went from crystal controlled scanners (remember buying crystals for