Scanner Scoop - Sat & Sun, Oct 11-12
By nighthawk • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Scanner ScoopThe BURN BAN is still in effect for those who didn’t know.
9:00am MFD responding to a report of smoke in the Big Brushy area. Unit on the scene has traveled several roads in the area now and can’t locate any source of fire and is reporting that he doesn’t even see any smoke. Units have checked the whole area including Pennington Flat and have given the disposition of “Unfounded” and are returning to base.
11:43am MPD responded to a report of a 2 vehicle crash in front of KSP post 8. Nothing found.
12:00pm Report of a 2 vehicle crash with possible injuries around the 300 block of Christy Creek.
MFD, Rowan EMS, and MPD responded. the Rowan County Sheriff’s Dept worked the accident report.
First unit on the scene reported that both lanes of the roadway were blocked.
EMS cleared the scene with 3 refusals. Meanwhile KSP has 2 units out at what was referred to as a real bad domestic on Sunshine Lane. The roadway was reported reopened about 12:32pm and all units were clearing the scene with the exception of the Deputy who was awaiting a wrecker to arrive from another county.
10:25pm MPD responding to report of 4-5 people in a fight at RoadRunners
both male and female involved in the fight out in front of the building.
police arrested one male and charged him with disorderly conduct,
resisting arrest, and alcohol intoxication 1st offense.
Late Night Saturday - Early Sunday
11:55pm MFD responded to a report of a house fire on Jackson Cemetery Road.
Hillsboro Fire Dept was notified and Farmers FD was requested for tanker support.
A Farmers unit was first on the scene and reported smoke coming from a window
on the 2nd story and that nobody is in the house.
Firefighters entered the house with an “offensive plan of attack” at 12:11am.
At 12:12am additional engine support was requested form MPD station 2.
The fire was reported as being under control at 12:22pm, however additional
response is still being requested from MFD.
At 12:52am A KSP arson investigator was requested at the fire scene.
Rowan EMS also responded to the scene to offer services if needed.
Jackson Cemetery Road is just across the Flemming County line
off from Maxi-Flats road.
I don’t have any idea if Flemming County units responded or not.
All units were cleared from the scene at 2:05am.
Sunday
12:54am A report 2 females arguing and fighting at Twin Knobs Campgrounds,
causing a disturbance and keeping people awake. The Sheriff’s Unit was
initially notified, but was still in another county, complaint relayed to KSP.
Don’t they have Park Rangers stationed at Twin Knobs anymore?
From the sound of things I assume that the Deputy must have made
pretty good time arriving at Twin Knobs. He cleared the scene at 2:10am
reporting that one of the females have been arrested and is in his custody,
and that KSP is responding to another complaint.
6:54pm Complaint of heavy smoke coming from the Dawson Way area of Drycreek.
MFD responded and upon investigation discovered a small bonfire that some University Students
had built. This is in the same area where fireworks had started the big forest fire back last year,
however these folks were new to the area and didn’t have any knowledge of last years fire.
I assume that they didn’t know about the Burn Ban either…
7:14 MPD responded to a complaint of 2 adult female shoplifters at WalMart.
Some time about 9:00pm I heard the shoplifting complaint resulted in 2 arrests.
7:15 MFD investigating smoke comming from the Green Street area. Flames visible from and
smoke is crossing the bypass. I think this fire may have been in burn barrels…
But the Burn Ban is still in effect. MPD originally requested, but later ask to disregard.
7:32 Report of an older gentleman laying in the grass in the area of the tree walk.
MPD investigated and said the gentleman is OK.
Apparently the man was just laid back taking in the scenery.
7:40pm MFD and Elliotville Fire Dept investigated an unknown fire around the 4100 block
of Christy Creek. Fire was located and extinguished.
The people said that they wasn’t aware of the Burn Ban.
11:20pm Sheriff’s Deputy responded to US 60 East near the Haldeman Fire Department
to a report of 2 males dressed in camo and ski masks walking in the middle of the road.
Gave disposition of complaint as “Unable To Locate” at 12:03am.
It’s Monday morning now and I will open another Scanner Scoop later on today.
If anyone hears anything before the new page is opened, feel free to add it here.
Also, If I have missed anything major that you feel needs to be added, you can add it here.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Well, I guess I might need me one of them thar AND-TANNIE’S y’all been talkin’ ’bout. I pick up 1400 base, period. YIKES!
Actually, I’m enjoying the quiet…..for the moment.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I hope you get your scanner back up and running pretty soon Kat. I’m missing a lot of things
apparently… Just (what seems like) a short while ago I heard a Deputy transporting 3 females
to a Detention Center in another county, and can’t recall hearing the arrests being made.
I’ll do the best that I can here, but like I said, I’m missing quite a few things.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
A beatup ole TV antenna (long type) will work somewhat but
it is directional so you might have to get someone on the
phone that has their scanner on and aim the antenna
around when they hear something on the channels you
are missing to see if you can improve reception in by aiming
in certain directions. Othewise just point it back towards
town (west/southwest) which means I think you might
end up pointing against the hillside if way up that hollar.
You will need a FM type connector on the end of the
cable line comming in from the antenna, and you should
use RG58 not RG 6 or 59 but that will work.
Connection at the antenna end does not have to have
a matching transformer since you will not be using a Amplifier
strip off the center wirer and the shield braid twisting up to
put under the wingnuts jus make sure that none of the
center wire or shield contacts each other or anthing but the
wingnut metal or you could lose signal and/or have a low OHM
problem which possibly hurt the scanner. Most scanners are
tuned for 52ohm antennas not 75ohm if you have a manuel
look to see what is recommended for lead in wire.
IF it say RG58 it is 52ohm. RG59 or RG6 is 75Ohm and a tv
antenna is 75ohm but if you use say 25feet of RG58 it will
correct this somewhat for you like a balun, not optimal but it
will work accross many frequencies from 50mhz up through
8-900mhz. A FM trap might help to keep the FM band from
causing harmonics that might mess with certain channels.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I’ll have to check with some people farther up the road. One that I know of has a scanner and picks up everything.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Kat,
Have you tried angling your antenna horizontal instead of vertical?
and playing around with the direction you have your scanner turned in?
Those 2 things alone might get you some reception, as I have been inside
of a big metal building in your area and seen portables laying flat and at
an angle picking up radio traffic from the tower. I’ve seen this several times
there, but never thought anything of it before…
So if your antenna will tilt over horizontally and you can play with the angle
your radio is setting at, allowing the (side of the) antenna to point more
towards tower hill, even trying tilting the antenna to horizontal and turning the
receiver around to where the controls face in an opposite direction might help.
It might not help, but theres nothing to lose by trying those things.
October 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I missed a lot of things, and then I heard a lot of State Police radio traffic in the county,
but the thing about trying to monitor and report KSP radios traffic is that I hear stuff from other
counties coming over the same frequency and it’s hard to distinguish who’s doing what, where.
I don’t have the sub-audible squelch selector where you can tune to each unit or group of
units, so I hear what you would call “mass-communications” coming from all the units in all
the counties in the district. It gets too confusing to even try and sort it all out.
Don’t get me wrong, it CAN be done, but it literally takes at least 3 people with headsets
with each assigned to only monitoring and logging a couple of units.
That is why you will hear Sheriff units asking KSP to switch over to another frequency.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The BURN BAN is still in effect BTW…
I thought It had been posted this in the Announcements, but can’t locate it now.
Maybe it was only posted as a comment in hopes that more people would see it?
I’m off to see if I can find it and will post it as an announcement.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Uh you cannot be listening to STATE police UNLESS you have a digital demod scanner
and WHERE did you get one that works?
Even if I did get one they could go encrypted in an emergency and
then they are useless unless someone has a software driven hack up
on the web to reprogram the certain model and brand?
October 12th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
You are correct about them going into encrypted mode sometimes.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
the only thing I can think of is their radios have a duel analog mode
but I doubt that, it could be, afterall FM HD radio is on the same or
sideband channel?