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I went to the Brickyard Sunday and used my scanner for the first time.
What I learned:
Bring your regular antenna and leave the stubby home. I had to hold the scanner up to get consistent reception.
So, I set it up to scan 5 banks containing the drivers I was interested in and set each banks priority to the driver I liked the best.. This did not work well. I was listening to MRN and when ever something happened all the drivers went to their radios and all that jumping made it impossible to follow anything. I missed the MRN play-by-play and when the scanner switched to a driver's radio, I only heard bits and pieces.
What I did instead:
Removed the channel priorities and I did not scan. I entered [HOLD] [CH#] {HOLD] and listened to MRN only. When something happened or if I saw a driver in the pits that was having trouble, I went directly to their channel [HOLD] [CH#] [HOLD] and listened in.
For instance, Jr's car was bad and when a caution came out, I wanted to hear what they were going to do. Jr said that he wanted "a full spring rubber put on the right-side and some tape added to the grill."
It was worth it, especially at Indy where you cant see the race anyway.
You'll learn to like the sport in a whole new way now.
I remember in 1994, prior to NASCAR coming to Indy-I won tickets to the 1994 Indy 500. So-My friend and I borrowed a scanner, and took it with us to the race.
Well-us two redneck boys, showed a bunch of city slickers, using walkmans and boom boxes, what scanners were all about. Several people sitting around us wanted to know what we were listening to-and we told them "the teams". They were literally amazed, and didn't realize you could eaves drop in on their favorite driver! The only problem back then-was finding the current frequencies for the teams. Otherwise, we heard some colorful language that day!
Now with fan cam, and scanners-the brickyard has come a long way!
Next time you go, be sure to program the NA$CAR frequencies into a seperate channel bank. I have found that listening to the race director run a caution to be very interesting and fun. I use an old Pro-95 (because I can use the laptop to program-and it works for the local Police at home) and basically set up seperate banks for MRN/PRN, NA$CAR, and several car/drivers. I then 'manually' switch between the banks based on what I want to hear. It works and is not too complicated to keep track of during the race.
That would explain why I had to search the "dial" a few extra moments to find a local country station that carried the race, huh? LOL! FM 94.7 in Raleigh is my normal terrestrial radio stop for the races, and I think I finally found it on FM 95.7 (WKML) out of Fayetteville this past weekend...
While I've got you Harrill, some questions: When Sirius sat rad picks up "NASCAR" next year, will they broadcast all the races? I just the jumped from XM (which is non-portable, in a vehicle) to a Sirius portable unit that can travel with me, even to my boat. You may or may not know, as it is MRN that will be the Sirius tie-in if I have heard correctly, and you are obviously a PRN person, so I was just curious. Dave Moody talks about the move to Sirius next year (since he is already on it with his Sirius Speedway show) but no one has been 100% clear on what coverage they'll be offering.
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