Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Monitoring Strategy for Marine Corps Marathon

I spent most of the day Sunday monitoring the Marine Corps Marathon from Crystal City. I brought two scanners: the Uniden BCD396XT and the GRE PSR-800. Having the two scanners was a big help in monitoring the race, as there was a huge amount of radio traffic. I set the PSR-800 to monitor three systems: Arlington, DC, and Metro. The BCD396XT handled everything else: the 380 MHz Project 25 system the race organizers were using, STARS, low power/itinerants, and federal.

I'll post the complete list of frequencies/talkgroups monitored soon.

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