Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
The Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of North Carolina is formed by the cities
of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The 'research' portion is due to the LARGE
number of Fortune 500 and other companies located in this region which include
IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Ericsson, Biotech, Cisco, Red Hat, Glaxo
Welcomme, Bristol-Myers, and many more.
Other notable cities in the area are Apex, Cary, Morrisville, and Wake Forest.
Another important consideration are the fine colleges and universities which
include NC State, Duke University, UNC at Chapel Hill, Meredith, Peace, St.
Augustine's, Saint Mary's, Shaw and others.
Travel into the area is accomodated by the large Raleigh-Durham International
(RDU) airport (served by America, Delta, US Airways, Air South, Midway) and
three US interstate highways (I-40, I-95 & I-85). There is also an Amtrak
station in downtown Cary.
Tarheel SW/Scanner Listeners Group
This is a great bunch of guys and gals from the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill
area of North Carolina. They are dedicated to sharing information on all facets
of shortwave and scanner monitoring.
The group holds a net every Monday night at 9:00 on the Raleigh Amateur Radio
Society (RARS) 146.640 repeater. Anyone can listen in and if you have 2m
amateur radio license priveleges, you can add your own two cents!
The third Monday of every month a meeting is held for dinner, discussion,
sharing frequency lists and loggings and getting to check out everyone's newest
acquisitions!
If you are interested, contact
Bob Zeher, KE4JVY, or
Kelly Mills, AE4FG.
Some Frequencies For RTP, NC
Research Triangle Park (RTP) is located in north central North Carolina and is
bounded by the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. RTP itself is
composed of many high-tech companies employing several hundred thousand people.
Located in the region are several well known colleges and universities as well
as the Raleigh-Durham International airport
If you are in the area, here is a list of active frequencies
that I have personally logged.
Here's a more extensive list compliled by
Tom McKee, K4ZAD and the members of the
Tarheel Shortwave/Scanner Listener's Group. It's a self-extracting ZIP file so
just download and execute it to get at the files
Marshall Sherard, KE4ZNR, has recently set up some web pages for area agencies.
He has pages for
Raleigh PD,
Raleigh FD,
Wake County EMS and
Trunking Systems.
The RDU alert page provides details for emergency
conditions out at RDU International airport.
There is surely a scanner fan working for Rowan County, NC for they have on
their site a comprehensive listing of frequencies throughout the state which
is geared toward scanner listeners!
Rowan County - Dept of Telecommunications - Scanner Lists
I have also used the PerCon SPECTRUM FCC database to extract all the public
safety records in the RTP area:
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- NC State Listings
- North Carolina (383K)
This file contains three listings, each sorted differently
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- County Listings
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Alamance ,
Chatham ,
Durham ,
Franklin ,
Granville,
Harnett ,
Johnston ,
Lee ,
Orange ,
Person ,
Vance ,
Wake
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- City Listings
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Angier ,
Apex ,
Cary ,
Chapel Hill ,
Durham ,
Fuquay-Varina,
Garner ,
Hillsborough ,
Holly Springs,
Morrisville ,
Raleigh ,
Zebulon
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- Misc Public Safety
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Bay Leaf VFD ,
Bethesda VFD ,
Duke University Medical Center,
Fairgrounds FD ,
Fairview FD ,
New Hope FD ,
Parkwood VFD ,
Redwood VFD ,
Rex Hospital ,
Six Forks FD/EMS ,
Wake New Hope VFD ,
Western Wake Hospital
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- Miscellaneous
- RDU Airport
Trunking IDs
Here's a list of trunking IDs for some RTP agencies
using Motorola 800MHz systems
NC/SC Mailing List
If you live in North or South Carolina, there's a nice e-mail list available at
egroups.com. If interested, look over the current archives at
Carolina Scanner
and subscribe if you feel so inclined
The Tarheel Shortwave/Scanner Listener's Groups has also set up an e-mail list
called
Tarheel Scanner
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