How To Find ANY Radio Frequency For Your Scanner
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Radio scanning as a hobby, it takes time to cultivate a list of frequencies. It's part of the hobby.
Notebooks always help
I actually have a laminated note card I keep in my wallet with all of the important frequencies for my county, it's actually been rather useful to find a certain agency's frequency while I'm out and about.
Mine is coming together and it’s actually a very entertaining thing to turn on sometimes hahah, the hams in my area are something else hahaha.
In Australia there are companies that offer a full service solution to businesses that need two-way comms, typically pubs, private security, event management etc where radio is not their core business. They provide 400mHz band radios on a lease basis and handle licencing for a monthly fee. The problem is the licence is not in the name of the end user, so impossible to discern from the ACMA public register (bit like Rimington cabs). The only way to find out is to use a scanner with close capture technology, or an rtl-sdr with a very short ant positioned close to the location of interest. Most are still NFM simplex and unencrypted - this video has inspired me to start hunting!
The most important part of scanning is having the right antennas for what you want to listen to. You have a lot more flexibility receiving vs transmitting, but if you're trying to cover 150mhz to 800 mhz with a little whip sitting in an apartment you'll have a bad time.
I just built & installed a biconical antenna which seems to work well from VHF up to 800 MHZ (and I've also heard CB on it) which basically consists of two bowties at right angles to each other, making a fat dipole with omnidirectional coverage. I can certainly hear the 800 MHZ trunked systems better than on my discone.
Yeah I'm finding that out while looking for different ariels any ideas, Boafeng GT 5R and Qaunsheng
One of my prized possessions in the late 90s was a Scout RF scanner. It was great for finding any nearby FM transmitters. It was a very simple device that would simply capture a log any FM modulation considerably above the RF floor. They make a new variant called the digital scout for finding newer digitally modulated signals...but it's not cheap.
My father used to compile and sell frequency lists when I was a child, there's still a few of his old articles and guides on the TOTSE archives.
As well as uksd and my own Yahoo group I had, also use to sell freq lists at riat fairford and other shows, had air freqs, police, fire, even users there as well, use to sell really well
At riat sone of there comms guys would be impressed by what I had on them
This befire the 455 mhz riat freq were punished on government website now, but they don't publish the mod band extras at 444 mhz, of 432 407 base coms by usaf and mod police
So even if u see freqs on ofcom websites, that's often judt part of the picture keep scanning, searching and even better use close call
I see much of my old stuff and uksd on sites claiming and even copy right sd there own, I never sought to copyright anything I published from myself as first not my frequency is it, not even supposed to listening but sad today, dobt publish that as I published it, tough luck anyone who does freq lists, the freq aren't yours in first place
Sharing information was my way, money and copyright wasn't
Listening to airband is great, especially when you're at a base like Lakenheath. There will be several frequencies other than ground or tower where you can hear what's going on.
There's also the shortwave frequencies, if you don't live near an airport the airband is going to be very spotty (you're only going to hear the airplanes that are in your vicinity), now if you have an SSB capable shortwave radio you you can get the ones on shortwave in most places.
My favourite piece of scanning kit the UBC125XLT 😍 just purchased a new high gain aerial for mine and it's improved what was already a tidy bit of equipment.
This is very good content and comments. Even with the most modern radioreference website, it still took time with my local EDACS listening to understand the talk groups and how some of them work together. Same with Amateur Radio here in USA. Need to take all available lists with a grain of salt. Simple as my 2-meter FM rig, I find the programming needs to change every few months.
I was fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the scanning world in it's height of glory. I have since sold all my scanners and now a licensed amateur. I would love to get hold of an old scanner that I used to own again but the really exciting stuff is mostly gone nowadays
Seeing all those 1980 and 1990 scanners brought back so many memories lol. I think I owned every one of those Radio Shack/Realistic scanners shown lol. Great advice and information!
Using an SDR dongle seems the best way to scan for stuff to me. All the frequencies available at once, unlike a traditional superheterodyne that has to sweep (scan) the frequencies.
I still have my Yupiteru MVT-7100 it has to be said.
Mvt 7100 is a great scanner receiver. I've still got mine. Had it for over 20 years. Only thing I had to do was replace the internal battery as it kept losing it's memory when switching off.
If you've got a scanning program for that dongle, and the dongle is right on frequency. Sometimes I have to adjust the dongle frequency when listening to VHF or UHF, using the program SDR-radio. But actually the best scanner I have is the Uniden BCD396XT I got recently. I can hear all the local trunked systems on it, plus I can record all the traffic to my laptop.
@@StewartDD Yes. I also found the buttons stopped working but a bit of Electrolube switch cleaner (from the era) and some mashing got it all back to life.
That Yupiteru is the best analog ever....(of course I have one....😊😊)
I cant believe there are people mentioning the exact same scanner as I have from goodness knows when 😊
I use an Airspy R2 and an AR-DV1 at the same time, connected to the same antena with a splitter. While searching, i look for signals on the SDR (10 MHz bandwidth window) and tune the AR-DV1 whenever I discover a new signal. Log everyting in a spreadsheet. Store the interesting frequencies in the AR-DV1. When listening, just set the AR-DV1 in scanner mode hopping over all the banks you're interested. This way you can compile your own "frequency book" in a couple of weeks. The best part is listening to a frequency for hours, logging every small glimpse of information, putting it all together and getting a picture of what's going on and where.
Great stuff. I love that with the minicab thing. It's amazing also what can be heard on PMR446.
there is always a well known radio reference site in the UK where you can download frequencies by type and proximity and even dump them into the Uniden with software they provide - requires a small sub though. I use it for aviation and it seems up to date to me
Thanks again Lewis. Always informative and helpful 👍 👌
That great and well said. this applies to the USA as well .we have radio reference online in the US. somewhat up to date. in the US we have a law on the books we can listen to anything that is transmitted but limits on what we do with what is hurd. nice pic's of some great scanners . 73's
Just my 2 cents if you want to scan only get an SDR
1 they are cheap 2 you can listen to everything within a very large frequency range. Yes it does take a little bit of learning but there is a tutorial for everything and you can visually look at a large portion of bandwidth and actually see transmissions and there are decoders available for almost everything that isn’t truly encrypted and it’s easy to expand its capabilities through application specific add ons.
Super Video RM. I've Been Buying and Collecting Radio Scanners and Shortwave Radio's since the Early 2000's and Have Many Log Books full of Frequencies and Radio Station Information. It's a Great Hobby and a Great way to stay in Touch with what's going on in your Community and the World. Thanks Again and Take Care*****
When hunting for stations that only transmit intermittently, I usually set the radio to wideband FM. When I hear traffic, I switch to narrow and hopefully log the frequency.
And there was me thinking the question you get asked nearly every day is "How does it feel to be so blessed with good looks, an encyclopaedic knowledge of radio and talents extending to drone flying and video production?"
Must be the second most question posed to you. :-)
You can also use a frequency counter when you find an antenna.
Off to Ringway road/Shadowmoss at noon today..trying my new Watson aerial. Quite good reception at the runway threshold. It's sunny too. 🌞 😊😊😊
PLEASE do a video!
Spot on Lewis, time and patience are key parts of scanning. Takes some time to build up a directory and some frequencies come and go. It’s also worth keeping an eye on big events too like Eurovision and the Commonwealth Games for example, new comms usually pop up.
Driving around town with a small micro mag mount can be interesting and new frequencies can be found that way. 73 👍🏼
remember the days when mobile telephones were non digital and you can hear all the conversations some of those vere very interesting. I still have that AOR AR-2002 it was a great receiver (still in the filling cabinet) in it's time and also a Sony PRO-80 (now I have only 2 working ones of those and one broken).
Now I use a MALAHIT DSP2, SDR USB radio receivers and a couple of modded Ham handheld transmitters (modded to not transmit and better frequency coverage software).
I also have that book of radio frequencies in the ring binder and I can confirm most are now digital frequencies now.
Those old scanners brought back some memories? Does anyone know the name of the scanner on the far left with the strap?
total newbie here with a talk pod a36 plus. I have trouble picking up anything at all. I was even at a mini air show the other day, Scan picked up nothing at all. I googled the frequency for the airfield and typed that in and still just fuzz. most i’ve had out of it is faint fuzzy mumbles here and there. am I doing something wrong?
How do you find Frequencies for different areas as I live in York and found a website with all local Frequencies like York uni security and door men and all other but I can not found the website now, so how would I find these out now ...thanks Pete
It would still require some manual cultivation, but I could imagine having an SDR and some programming knowledge could help. Write a programme that listens to a small section of the airwaves for a fraction of a second, if there's some signal above a certain threshold, record the frequency and time, then move on, if there is no signal just move on. You'd need to then go through and actually see what's there and prune your list to get rid of the frequencies that are just interference, but such a programme if run for a day or two would easily give you a finite list of places to start a manual search. Recording the time would be crucial in narrowing your search, since if something is making noise at all hours of the day, it could just be a machine making electrical noise, but if times are sporadic or only showing activity on a schedule, you might have actual communication.
Is that ofcom listing still available. I thought it had been discontinued to the general public. Was very useful back in the late 90s / 00s
Great video !
All emergency services here in Australia have gone to P25 encrypted so scanners are now about as useful as a hip pocket in a singlet. Friday and Saturday nights used be interesting listening in on the police and hearing what the non reflectives were up to while downing several convivial ales.
You'll never hear the police but you can still very easily hear ambo's in Victoria at around 166-168mhz, a lot of it's not even digital, and what is isn't encrypted (analogue seems to be used to service more regional areas, I've heard Wodonga and Warnambool mentioned a few times).
l feel comfortable sharing because they've on those frequencies since I got my first cheap realtek dongle 10 years ago, they're very clearly aware anyone can listen, and the signals are so damn strong I can sit inside and pick them up with a 1" needle inserted into the sma of a realtek dongle as the "antenna" (I'm just in south eastern suburbs of Melbourne too, nowhere near where it's coming from), so I wouldn't call them hard to find.
any advice on search bank ranges please just bought a dv10
You know how to make someone time sick for the good old days with them thumb nails of scanners. Brings back great memorires Glory days of scanning. Thanks
How do I tagged a frequency on my Uniden BC 125AT. THANKS
Can you do an episode on equipment selection? Different components like receiver's antennas cabling?
*_Lewis, how can I find radio scanner frequencies for my area?_*
I just wanted to make sure you heard it today...😉
About 4 mins in, the montage of rxrs showed 3 that I still own. The steepletone I just threw the box and earphones that came with it away. Its time to dust off my realistic though.
Elephant in the room: trunking
In end with my disabling issues all became too much and I only share a few things with others more privately but no one ever told me not to publish freqs and while had a few issue mostly were ok with government agencies and police
Can't wait to hear the MIR again! LOL!
I got the uniden bc125at but the software pack for it is like dam old. An any other program i found is outdated badly so any suggestions for a software base that can help monitor?
So are you looking for software for your scanner or ?
@@Ross13ful yes. The one listed on uniden seem like it was made for xp or something. I did find one that was on someone project that work to program it but it was limited. Was hoping someone had a better program for it
And to this day sone of the freqs in 9th edition uk scanning directory I helped with, deleting lots of unused freqs, we left sone police and others because we'd only just changed and many freqs were still well in use
142 isn't allocated to American airforce I uk it's an 8nteenational military band that use 137 to 160 mhz am, raf, usaf, usafe, Belgian, French, Italian well many differant air forces use
I have an app on my phone that picks up railway radio traffic, which makes hunting for trains much easier. I'd get a proper scanner, but they're technically illegal here, so getting them is tricky
Is that a copy of the SSC Confidential plan v9 at the end? They are as rare as hens' teeth!
It certainly is!
Biggest problem with 2009 edition was NATO did a freq change for every uhf mil freq, luckily many were published by them at the time, but meant anything there was pretty much gone
back in the day we only needed the uk scanning directory book , they where the days
TG-UV2PLUS or MD10 ?
Also u show a uniden there with close call, which is a very good way now to find freqs even if it's digital on ubc125 then will still open the freq up, on sds100 and ubc3600 will decode it in many cases
As for uhf police I put my stuff together by listening and working out the channels based on that, also worked out there were special channels 451.975 to 452.350 that weren't regular use, we're mi5, royal protection and other more special use
So in 2009 many of the police freqs were still active but many werent easiest 5hibg was to show that this is where they were to be found if u were still pre airwave
What is the actual reason for using AM in the air? And then back to FM when they get to the space station? I take it the space shuttle or now spaceX use FM all the way up to space as it isn't an aircraft? Or am I wrong?
AM is used because it’s simple, cheaper and it works. It’s less susceptible to noise and interference and if a radio locks up, other stations can be heard
@@RingwayManchester ah... Thanks man.... What does it mean if a radio locks up?
@@RingwayManchester oh sorry I get it.... If the radio locks up on tx.....
That’s it :)
@@RingwayManchester 👍
And because it’s technically illegal in this country as big brother don’t want you to hear juicy comms, keep your FINDS to yourself!!
My Uniden BCD436HP serves me well.
What about close call ?
I use two airspy R2 scan search a combined area for 800mhz a second you can find loads of stuff normal scanners just wouldn’t and a lot cheaper then those win radios SDRs
Oh noooooo 😢
I have to put in work myself? I’m too lazy for that. Let me build a crowdsourced online scanning directory really quick….
You know this is going to open a plethora of questions from folk wanting to know how to listen to the police!🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼
I'm so glad I can (Legally!) listen to police calls. In my area (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA) 99.9% all of the Police, fire and EMS radio traffic is unencrypted, analog UHF. Even a Baofeng UV-5R can be a useful (if slow) scanner here! US federal law doesn't regulate the ownership of scanners, some states do, but in Pennsylvania, scanners (and Radar detectors!) are legally considered radio receivers and therefore no more regulated than an AM/FM clock radio or a Wakman!
Rimington taxis wasn't a very good code, I immediately thought of Stella Rimington!
Navi : HEY ! LISTEN !!...
me: ok
One service that a lot of people seem to overlook is news media comms to remote crews. The crews report on what's going on and the producers tell them what needs to be filmed or who to interview. It is less busy in these days of cell phones but there is still a lot of traffic as it is convenient for the crews to just pick up a mic instead of making a call.
We use to publish these in uk scanning directory again many in use today though a new band at 425 mhz opened up, this week's uk bike ride 425.39375 91.5 ctcss btw heard for 100 hundred plus like as aircraft at fl260, London marathon bbc using 468 mhz from same aircraft hired
Our State Police here in Pennsylvania went encrypted a few years ago.
For sure certain frequencies at the time of release ALL CHANGED IMMEDIATELLY... This for sure.
With our Police here being encrypted it is turning me off to scanning after over 50 years of doing it. Here it's mostly Fire and EMS with short transmissions not of much interest. I am not in a big busy city to hear too much. I have a Uniden SDS-100
scanner now for almost 5 years since it came out. I have been an amateur radio operator over 60 years in the US and have enjoyed that time. However, thanks for your advice. My wife, who is also licensed, says it's good that people can't listen
to most police and law agencies. 73 Ray
Crazy when you can hear more traffic from military than law enforcement.
In the UK we do not have free speech and also the freedom of information like you get in the USA.
I really enjoyed the local plod stuff in my UK city back in the day.
Now there was a problem with proper criminals that targeted people or even nice cars to rob. They would report the perfectly innocent driver as "leaving a pub drunk" and provide number plate. They would then use the scanner and find his home address as the police gave it to the patrol cars to find this person.
So I do understand Tetra and encrypted comms.
@Drew Dastardly Yes, I understand the UK 🇬🇧 has Tetra and the laws for monitoring,
such as police are stricter than the US laws,
though mobile scanning laws do vary by each state in the US. I did see this fact about
UK laws on Ringway Manchester videos.
Here in the US, scanners are blocked 🚫
from receiving mobile phone calls 📞.
Thanks, Cheers. I was born in London,
UK, in 1944, during WWII. We came to
US, in 1949, before starting school, on
the Queen Mary to NYC, and have been
here since, serving in the US Air Force,
during the Vietnam 🇻🇳 War, now being
79 years old. I did go back to London
in 1979 with my parents, and in 2013,
with my wife. It was nice to visit and
see some of the UK 73 de W2CH.
I keep trying to paste some relevant lyrics from a Royksopp song and they keep getting deleted. Ah well...
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Scanning books are out of date within months.what i used to do is nock on the doors of police, civil service etc and say to them have you got any transmitters and can i have the frequecies you should have seen the look on there faces
True mate. They’re usually out of date before going to press
Best way I used to find what frequency is I had a tiny handheld frequency counter. Find a place where let’s say police hang out. I’d have the box turned on and if anyone close by keyed up their radio the box would lock on the frequency. I’d make a note of it. When back home I’d put that frequency into a search on the FCC licensing service with a location and 99% of time I’d find the matching repeater output frequency. This works because all the frequency’s are in the FCC database they just may not be listed as who really uses them may be under a generic name like local government or other nonsense.
of course this is USA only info.
U don't need freq counters today use the ubc125 or other uniden with close calls and many freqs in uksd weren't out of date by publication there's still some from 2009 edition that still in use many of course have but can assure u I 2009 edition I. Purpose added a section about latest changed before publication
And also sections on coms at airshows etc, especially riat that still active today
Also airshow vhf reserved freqs
But no u can't keep fully upto date it's impossible but edition 9 of uksd I. Personally deleted large chunks of freqs and added many new heard at that time
radio reference uk just put your post code in and how many miles you want to receive
Sadly very limited and often inaccurate
Also easier today as many one freqs are on government website for anyone to check
Again those army freqs are still mod freqs to this day so maybe individual mould freqs are gone but the bands are very much still used by army etc
Also mould was still well in use late 90s not 80s and sone later than that and then still those bands are prime mod bands today both airband at 137 to 160 mhz mostky am but some on fm, some unite have used either, switch as needed
The many 137 to 160 mhz military freqs, and many low band 30 to 87 mhz, but also 430 to440 mhz while ham. Use it's still a lot of military base users as well, and if course again in scanning directory we added 406 to 420 mhz, many spot raf base freqs still sand today
In fact it's amazing how many times soneone says found raf Cosford etc on 409 mhz freq and I look at my old lists and say yes we had that back in2007, same applied for other freqs
Remember uhr fire ground freqs at 450 and 457 462 still in use as well.
One of thd main suppliers of a CD of freqs didn't send me his which I paid for mainly because he saw my name and realised he couldn't con me, I'd seen his screenshot and said this is my stuff, with uksd previous stuff and yes done newer as well
I use my online not updated since 2007 list especially this time of year for my farm scanning as again any such freqs haven't changed I 30 years still same freq in use
The uksd gave a hood breakdown of where to find things as well but now pmr can be allocated in 152 147 mhz home office and mod bands more than ever before
So today hearing traffic on what was primary mod now could be pmr, but many mod freqs there too, my local intelligence base uses 153 mhz dmr repeaters, not sure on fort Monkton they used 149 mhz for many years in Portsmouth area for training, often heard tailing suspect on godport ferry or gun wharf, possible digital on differant frews but likely still in a mod band
Mould links were kept up in sone areas but used by mod police and similar u coukd here the noises associated wiyh mould repeaters so was still very much used into late 90s
why not use close call ?
Etc i use it home, I get airways and local Lower aircraft, I get users going by house, I get all sorts and then events I can get a good set up, say airshow by going to near control and getting sir and pmr freqs, even as said if digital
As for police well check cctv shop watch schemes, often police or pcso on there and in fact are much more interesting as well anyway even when no police or pcso on
But going to an even then close call is fantastic mostly though can get annoying if like at john ambulance freqs very busy non listening to, but hitting close call all the time so at tines close that band off or close close call
Are the police in the UK gone tetra.
Yeah, tetra switch over around 2004 in Liverpool, killed the hobbie for me
@Patrick J yea same here in Ireland killed it off for me after 22 years of been into the scanners
@@dave8453 Good times, I miss them days CB Radio as well was active back then
@@pjohnwilliams6941 yea big time cb gone very quiet were I am years ago everyone was on them.
Yip, it's just what I do as a newcomer to this game: I use the best antenna that's fit for t'job, and just keep scanning the bejesus out of every frequency my kit covers.. Great fun... 🏴👍
i guess i live in a radio dead zone, cuz it doesnt matter what frequency i use i never pick anything up most of the time, kind of depressing.
Most police don't analog no more and use trunking with it blocked. Practically possible to listen to police anymore.
Here in the US, use a search engine, enter in frequencies and give it your City and State. Simple!
I only used the internet to find out the calls for said station (largely Ham repeaters), but every frequency programmed in my scanner I knew by heart or I manually found, it's more fun that way.
Or.....just use radioreference and look up what you need.
What? A load of out of date garbage you have to pay for? No thanks
Who would know of the European digital police radio systems and how to hack in and listen in to them today? who is an authority on the digital radio system RAKEL is a system based on a digital standard TETRA "Terrestrial Trunked Radio" which is used within the EU for "blue light systems". The frequency band is 380 to 395 MHz.
anyone that know about this and who on RUclips that is great authority on educating in this system?
please let me know, is my passion to understand radio networks and smart phone hacking. Am not a criminal, but is passion about this tech and like to learn and understand.
thanks!
next video will be called how the goverment put me on the black list for being on statons your not supposed to be on
Serious they never really worried, earlier they did a bit but by time several uk scanning directory came out the old radio communication agency's Baldock monitoring station used scanning directory and my lists as w extras to monitor
Was told because there lists aren't always upto date and many using freqs without licence wouod appear in scanning directory and my lists
But I never had any issues never told by government to stop publishing freqs in all the years I did it
Sad even governments website listing freqs has a mix of old unused and current licences so even that's not fully accurate, but it's ano5her good resource
But close call on uniden especially events and sites is fantastic on scanners, finds the freqs and give the audio, and as said on the digital scanners will decode non encrypted stuff as well
Take imperial war Duxford museum, on site vhf air, display teams vhf and uhf coms, the sites own uhf repeaters and non dmr singles as well, you would find modt freqs relative quickly on such a site, and 3ven better if using a dmr scanner
Last year Swiss version of red arrows there, stood by tower as guy on ground spoke to them and straight away a new freq for them I hadn't had then checked in on another, close call hit the freqs as being used
Whats the frequency of space ships
I don't have a license to transmit on my wouxun kguv9d+ but I like to listen is more interesting to me
TG-UV2PLUS or MD10 ?