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I recently took the scanner out of my car working places I dont need theft.

However I have a super stealth mounted VHF/UHF rig with Gen RX coverage, what else do you monitor then just repeaters? I already have MARS WSP in there but anything else fun in the KC or west-wash area that is fun to keep in memory for the old VHF fun when your stuck in traffic and didnt bring the HT scanner to work today?

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Well, you are near a body of water, sort of... put in the marine VHF channels - all 88 of them. :lol:

In my ICOM V8000, I have the major ham repeaters, WSP F-3, C2C, F-4 and some others I can't recall... Puget Power (for when the crews are working power outages)... the VHF Media freqs... the commerical dot freqs (54.6, 54.7, etc.), Wx (all of them) and finally the VHF Marine... it pretty much maximizes my memory channels to the fullest.

McDonalds uses 154.6 a lot on their drive-thru... they can be entertaining at times. One lady in the Bellevue/Eastgate location talks on the radio *ALL* the time... to other employees... about pain-in-the-butt customers and sometimes about mgmt.

marine good idea, didn't think about that I ride the WSF a good one!
just added DOT, also found out my radio will RX 800! haha added the DOT trunk

also if you don't have it the MARS, LEARN, OSCCAR etc good ones to add.

also just thought to add all of FRS GRMS etc.. haha good on the road

here is what I did with my mobile trunker (bct15) and why I wanted to pull it from the car. I dont know if I will be putting one back int he car yet, cant exactly justify the new uniden cost when they do the *same as the old radios. also saving up for a 600w amp for HF! (which funny is the same cost as a new scanner)

http://www.kellykeeton.com/radio/portable

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

REDNET/FIRECOM is a good one. It's been used for mutual aid between 800MHz fire and VHF fire agencies.

800MHz State Ops, too. ...but that's simplex and short range.

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yea added the state ops, just got done with my commute, some of the DOT I have are shared with school bus disp. that drove me crazy as I dont know how to delete a memory on the road! haha.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

151.565 is LWSD buses. It's a simplex MTR2000 station located on Rose Hill and it's pretty dirty.

Could that be it?

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151.995, I wasn't sure which SD it was, I could hear them 5/9 in Renton but I also got good reception in bellevue. I dont know the schools they were talking about so couldn't ID the location.

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Your V8000 does low-band?

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I assumed he was talking about the red and blue dot channels, as I didnt know DOT had 6m?

I thought he left off the 1

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

I would definitely put the non-ham stuff in a bank different from the ham stuff.
You don't want to be scanning ham repeaters and other stuff at the same time
because you will get stuck on some long winded ham and miss the non-ham stuff.
You don't want to accidentally transmit on the non-ham frequencies if you happen to have your rig modded to have extended (MARS) features. Anyway you shouldn't :lol:

Most ham rigs have a fairly slow scan rate so it may miss some stuff if you put too many freqs in and try to scan everything at the same time.

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That makes sense now.
DOT was on low band 'til about ten years ago. Or so.

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Yes I was talking about the commerical VHF freqs. 154.6, etc.