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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(01-24-2018, 03:58 AM)Square Wrote: Ya, you need a scanner that can follow a trunk system.  It uses 14 different frequencies and has a control channel that assigns a free channel.  So the conversation will jump from frequency to frequency, so I don't think older scanners work so well with this system.

Oh, shoot, I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunked_radio_system

My dad's old 10-channel Uniden scanner he dropped off this weekend works great for GEXR chatter ("Go for stretch!" :: crashhhh :Smile, but I see how it would never work for this.

So, next question Big Grin What scanner do you have/what do you recommend? This would be so helpful for trying to track testing. I found this:

https://www.scannermaster.com/Trunking_P..._s/270.htm
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Canard - 01-24-2018, 08:56 AM
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