COTA FREQUENCIES FOR SCANNERS For those who go with a scanner, here are a few notes that may help in tracking down useful F1 comms. There are just 2 teams who still use analog comms: LotusF1 and Toro Rosso. Toro Rosso: All Torro Rossos communications are analogue in the VHF Band, with 2 car channels, a pit channel in english, a pit channel in italian, and one simplex pit channel used for tyre spotters/refullers. Car 18: 164.9125 or 164.925 Repeater (94.8Hz) 160.4375, 160.410, 158.625, 158.850, 159.4375 Input (DCS074) Car 19: 164.0375 or 164.100 Repeater (173.8Hz) 158.8625, 158.375, 158.850 Inout (DCS266) Pits 165.0125 (103.5Hz) and 158.3625 (DCS223) or 158.275 Input 164.5375 (67.0Hz) and 158.300 or 158.275 (D503) Input 152.250 (DCS025) or 167.450 (DCS754 or DCS025) Finding Toro Rosso communications: If the freqs above don’t work, search the 164 to 166MHz band in 12.5khz steps. The PL/DPL tones are static, so you can pretty much guarantee that if you find a freq in this band with say a PL tone of 173.8Hz then it will be Car 19. Jean Eric Vergnes race engineer, Andrea Landi, always calls him JEV. The best time to find freqs is when the cars are out on their first installation lap of the session, or when the cars have returned to the pits and are/have been wheeled back into the pits and the driver is debriefing his race engineer. Lotus F1: Most of Lotus communications are actually in digital TETRA. However they retain an analog UHF radio link for race engineer to car and car to race engineer. These are simplex links; the comms are not repeated on the analog channels. So there are 4 analog frequencies to find: Car 9 Pit-to-Car: 457.0125 or 457.1125 (85.4Hz) Car 9 Car-to-Pit: 467.5375 or 467.7125 (79.7Hz) Car 10 Pit-to-Car: 457.1125 or 457.1625 (218.1Hz, maybe 91.5Hz) Car 10 Car-to-Pit: 467.9125 or 467.775 (97.4Hz) Finding Lotus communications: If the freqs above don’t work, search the 457-459MHz and 467-468MHz bands in 12.5khz steps. The PL/DPL tones are static, so again you can pretty much guarantee that if you find a freq in this band with the right PL tone above youve got it. Lotus comms can be a little more difficult to find given that they operate at lower power and are not repeated. Again, the best time to find freqs is when the cars have returned to the pits and are/have been wheeled back into the pits and the driver is debriefing his race engineer. Its easier to find the race engineer-to-driver link, so start with the 457-459mhz search. When you get the race engineer frequency, wait for him to ask the driver for a response. Then quickly search the 467-468Mhz band for the driver side communications. Other team related comms: There are other analogue comms that you can listen into. The most common frequencies are: Pirelli engineers: 166.2125 or 166.250 (136.5Hz) and 172.2625 or 172.1125 (110.9Hz). Team Hospitality: 147.300 (233.6Hz), 154.600 (DCS023) McLaren, 466.100 (131.8Hz) Ferrari TV and radio broadcasters will be spread across the UHF band from 440 to 490Mhz. Dont forget that many of them transmit the Team Radio communications that you can get on the FanVision terminals. Should I get FanVision or take a scanner: Actually, if you can afford it, Id suggest you take both and pop an earpiece in either ear. On Fanvision, you will of course get the team comms from all teams, including those who are using digital TETRA. But for those that are analog, you will get access to ALL of their comms: on FanVision you will only ever get a very small percentage of communications that FOM decide they want to broadcast. FOM Analogue commnications: 451.300 452.000 452.800 456.300 457.000 457.800 COTA Circuit Frequencies: 461.8125 463.4625 463.9750 464.0375 464.0625 464.6375 461.4125 451.9000 461.5250 464.9625 461.7375 452.6750 452.4750 For those of you interested in the more technical challenge of being able to find F1 related communications, there are lots of other communications to find: McLaren: All McLaren communications are encrypted using a bespoke digital Kenwood system. The car channels use a cross-band repeater system (VHF for car-to-pit link thats repeated in the pits on UHF, and UHF for pit-to-car link that is repeated on VHF for onward transmission to the car). The two pit channels one per car, and UHF simplex. There is also one more VHF radio link from the pitwall to the team repeater system that can then rebroadcast on any of the car or pit channels. Car 3: 147.600, 147.625, 147.500 or 148.200, rebroadcast on 447.400 or 448.875 or 450.275 Car 3 Pit: 451.025 or 450.225 Car 4: 152.275 , 151.625 , 152.700, rebroadcast on 453.825, 452.150, 452.900 or 450.4375 Car 4 Pit: 455.300 or 452.900 Pitwall Link: 147.850 or 149.375 Finding McLaren communications: If the freqs above dont work, search the 147 to 156Mhz Band, and 447 to 470Mhz Bands in 12.5khz steps. The McLaren frequencies vary quite a lot between races. Pit channels can be very difficult to find given that they operate at low power and are not repeated. As the car channels simultaneously broadcast on the same UHF and VHF pair you can track these down much more easily. The pitwall link is the odd one out as it isnt always rebroadcast on the same UHF or VHF channel. The McLaren signal sounds like a clean white noise (open squelch) signal, not dissimilar to a Nexedge narrowband signal. It doesnt use sync tones like a P25 digital sytsem. FIA/FOM TETRA signals: Always in the 420-430Mhz band, input is -10Mhz in the 410-420Mhz band. Known freqs for COTA use are: 425.050 - 415.050 425.225 - 415.225 428.000 - 418.000 428.175 - 418.175 428.375 - 418.375 428.550 - 418.550 429.050 - 419.050 429.325 - 419.325 Ferrari TETRA: 422.100 - 412.100 and 422.900 - 412.900 Sauber TETRA: 428.175 - 418.175 and 428.925 - 418.925 UNID Team TETRA: 425.250 - 415.250 F1 Car GPS signals: 3 frequencies used within the 308 - 327Mhz band.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:33:04 +0000
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