It's been some time since I last paid any attention to these, so am wondering if there have been any changes? Or are they still 2 through 97, with the same assigned frequencies?
Not sure, but I'm glad that the railroads haven't yet gone to a new technology that would obsolete my pocket scanner.
I've been chasing information about this, and scanners. Apparently some pre-narrow band scanners will still work just fine, others will not.
Frequencies are still the same, but the numbers have an extra "0 (zero)" in front of them. 002-097. Once full narrowbanding is implemented, everything will change again...
Interesting that PTC frequencies are 220Mhz area. Not that I could hear anything meaningful, but my scanner cannot receive these. I've always wondered though if a signal aspect change might be heralded by some sort of beep or static, sort of like FREDs produce. My scanner is a Uniden model that isn't all that sensitive. It sure is durable though -- I must have dropped it a dozen times. Several months ago I found a fan using a very inexpensive Baofeng BF-F8+ and he was easily grabbing signals I couldn't receive at all. http://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-BF-F8-Dual-Band-136-174-Transceiver/dp/B00FMIYEKW Probably 30 years ago I bought one of these super-duper antennas with very good success: http://www.networkscanning.com/stor...opic-Ham-Radio-Vhf-Antenna-_201422933584.html It's not a walk-around friendly antenna because when extended it's akin to carrying a fishing rod, but if you find the railfan spot that you are willing to wait at and put it on a scanner, it greatly enhances reception.
I'd never heard of that radio brand. I see that it is a transceiver. That antenna reminds me of what we had on our hand held VHF, when I worked for an engineering company about thirty years ago. They were always getting bent.
