HAM Radio Discussion

[rbeau30]

A lot of municipality frequencies are on a trunked system-basically frequency hopping from one channel to another.

Yeah, that, sorry, I am multitasking and didn't understand your post... I read it again and now get what you were saying. Yes most of the city freqs are trunked.


Program the FRS/GMRS/MURS frequencies in your baofeng... you will hear all kinds of stuff like drive throughs, the crane operator at the new VA hospital is GMRS channel 3, and some school bus conversations.

You still need a license to talk GMRS when not using a walmart 2-way radio.

[Irving]

A lot of municipality frequencies are on a trunked system-basically frequency hopping from one channel to another.

So that's what trunked means. I always wondered. For example, I was trying to pick up something on the Colorado State Patrol on 154.905 listed here: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?ctid=243

Yeah, that, sorry, I am multitasking and didn't understand your post... I read it again and now get what you were saying. Yes most of the city freqs are trunked.


Program the FRS/GMRS/MURS frequencies in your baofeng... you will hear all kinds of stuff like drive throughs, the crane operator at the new VA hospital is GMRS channel 3, and some school bus conversations.

You still need a license to talk GMRS when not using a walmart 2-way radio.

I ran across those channels on Radio Reference. I'll have to write down some of the GMRS stuff and see what I can hear.