Hello everybody I was wondering what the Channels, and Scanner Frequencies in Wheaton, and Napperville IL are. The reason I’m asking this is because my family, and I are going on a trip to Chicago, and I’m going to be stopping by at a car show in Wheaton, and the train tracks are right next to the car show, and I would always visit Napperville every time I would go to Portillos for a beef sandwich, and fries, and I would always watch trains at the Naperville station. so If you train fans know the frequencies please let me know, since Illinois is my home state, and Wheaton, and Napeville are home spots to watch trains. Thank you, and enjoy train watching.
There are quite a few but I would suggest you pick 161.100 for the BNSF at Naperville and 160.890 for the U.P. at Wheaton. These two will get you most of the action on the mainlines.
Here is a link to photographer Keith Schmidt’s alternate webpage, Steam Trains and Tractors, that has a frequency guide created by Milwaukee area railfan, and fire fighter, Dan Grudzialanek:
Channels??? I’m not sure what you are referring to.
The railroads refer to frequencies by “channel” which is how they program their radios but on one way scanner type devices I know of no “channels” parse.
My Bearcat XL92 has “channels” too, and that’s just one of the many reasons I have NEVER been able to program the durn thing, nor bring in a single AAR frequency. It hops over frequencies between 158 and 200 mHz just as pretty as you please. Designed to frustrate??
What I mean by channels is lets say I was at Kirkwood Missouri, and I had to tune in to channel 74 frequency 161.220 to find out when trains were passing by in Kirkwood. The other thing is I have a Uniden Bearcat BC72XLT, and requires channels to find Kirwoods frequencies, but I think you are talking about a diffrent scanner that doesn’t require channels. So thats what I mean by channels. I hope this helps everybody understand what I mean.
The AAR channel for the UP frequency through Wheaton is 52; BNSF’s is 66.
You made me hungry when you mentioned Portillo’s. There are plenty of them around for taking the goods to other spots: Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Route 59 (or was that the Naperville location you were thinking of?), Geneva (or Batavia–on Randall Road). Or, if someone buys an extra dog with the works at Northlake, said dog might gain him admittance to a certain nearby location…
Thank you very much for that information. I hope you don’t go overboard on Portillos, since I metioned that on the subject. Actually one more thing the AAR channels you told me does channel 52 work on frequency 160.890 in Wheaton, and does channel 66 frequency 161.100 work in Napperville?
Ok, now I look stupid. Sorry, exactly the same link. Only mine doesn’t activate. How the heck does one get a link to work within the context of an answer?
I’m not sure what you’re asking here. I programmed my scanner so that the assigned AAR channels (52 and 66, for example) appear on those channels in the scanner. Mine isn’t a Bearcat, so I don’t know what you need do to your scanner. The frequencies given, however, are valid.
Re: Model 92 --In my case I have the manual both HC and online. It’s just that I can’t understand it. The makers presuppose more knowledge than I have. - Even in Fostoria someone wh
I feel your pain Al,concerning understanding how. I have a trunk tracker that I’ve been unable to program since day one. [sigh] Some day I may stumble onto the correct process.[;)]
I have to keep the manual for the trunktrack scanner with me all the time. I usually use the trunking part when I travel, which isn’t frequently. I can generally get it to do what I want, though. Part of the trick is understanding how trunked radio works, if that’s what you’re trying to program. Conventional (like the railroads use) isn’t usually an issue.
I almost always have good luck finding frequencies by searching for scanner +the locale or frequencies +the locale. Sometimes it’s too much information (unless you want to listen to the drive through at the local fast food store), and sometimes none at all…