Digital Scanning and decoding

General questions on scanning from 30 to 3000Mhz. Not sure what you can receive in your area? Here's the place to ask!

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Digital Scanning and decoding

Post by numloxx »

Hi all,
I ordered a few RTL-SDR usb's the other day, and decided to see what I could decode on digital.
Hardware: RTL-SDR.com sells some good products. Go for the shielded dongles.
Software: FMP24 and DSDPlus-Fastlane (There is also a free copy, but it not updated anymore. Lifetime membership is only $25USD).

A few channels I've found so far, it's a bit confusing to understand who or what they are:
493.6125 - Mostly Transperth buses. The fleet number of the bus is usually the last 4 digits of the radio id. Eg 822601 = bus 2601 etc.
505.7625 ?
491.8625 ?
491.7 ?
492.4625 ?
492.375 - Car Hire/Airport?
504.2375 ?
505.7625 ?
506.275 ?
507.15 ?
464.375 ? talk about cats??? Airfreight company perhaps?
463.6 ?
507.2625 ? volunteers?

Hope this helps get others started... very interesting hobby again.
PS. You can NOT decrypt or listen to WA Police. If you listen.. this is what you will get:

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Sync:+P25p1         LDU1
Muting encrypted voice

       [E] LC_GRP_V_CH_USR ENC PRI4 Tgt=524 Src=3008825
Sync:+P25p1 NAC:1A0 LDU2
Muting encrypted voice

Sync:+P25p1         LDU1
Muting encrypted voice

       [E] LC_GRP_V_CH_USR ENC PRI4 Tgt=524 Src=3008825
Sync:+P25p1 NAC:1A0 LDU2
Muting encrypted voice

Sync:+P25p1         LDU1
Muting encrypted voice

       LC_ADJ_STS_BCST      LRA=0 SysID=1AD RFSS=1 SID=22 Ch=2-56 SSC=70
Sync:+P25p1 NAC:1A0 LDU2
Muting encrypted voice

Sync:+P25p1         LDU1
Muting encrypted voice

       [E] LC_GRP_V_CH_USR ENC PRI4 Tgt=524 Src=3008825
Sync:+P25p1 NAC:1A0 LDU2
Muting encrypted voice
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Re: Digital Scanning and decoding

Post by allycat »

Think most of those frequencies are DMR trunk systems. So what you have to do is set up a motorola trunk system with around 4 frequancies.Use Connect + system in city.
492.100000
491.700000
492.500000
492.375000
Then search this system for talk group IDs.There is many company's,councils and business on this system with there own TGID.Different to older style of scanning where everyone had there own frequencies.
TGIDs
Willson parking 821101
Elizabeth quay sec 822201
Westbin 822401
City of Perth rubbish 820401
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