I just bought a analog scanner from radioshack and need some help getting it set up and ready to scan railroad frequinces any help would be great Thanks
My scanners are old. So I might not be a big help. What model number? Do you know the frequencies or desired companies? Boxcab E50
Try these sites: http://zippy.ci.uiuc.edu/~roma/rr-freqs/index-old.html http://www.trainweb.com/radio/ http://www.whrc-wi.org/railfreqs.htm Boxcab E50
scanner troubls here are some channels 160.950 dispatcher -trains,160.245 trains -dispatcher,160.830 train-dispatcher,160.510 arn,160.515arn,160.115 train detector at milepost. all of the are ns. hope this helps some.there are some more, 160.290
HTH lost my old one recently, bought a new one at radio shack had like 150 preprogrammed frequencies for fire, police, etc i ended up programming these to ZERO frequency to keep the scan time down.. if not, the scanner will take almost 30 seconds (by my watch) just to scan those freqs it doesn't really matter what bank/channel you program the RR freqs.. but get rid of all the preprogrammed ones YMMV Ed
