Mike,

Here are several reasons we listen to fast food outlets and a suggestion to do
so discreetly!

1) To us a phrase coined and copywriter by the folks at Monitoring Times
Its monitoring every thing that's “DC to Daylight” to get an entry for your
radio log, its the fun of the chase, especially if the frequency found isnot
in any known data base!

2) The accidental or with out a choice, monitoring of the fast food head
sets!

Because they share frequencies, with other users, that are already programmed
in the radio scanner!

When the head sets are on the VHF High band and us itinerant frequencies around
154.000 MHZ you're going to hear them inadvertently when driving by the outlet!
If your monitoring the itinerant frequencies with the scanner. .Like roadwork
traffic flag persons, who are switching to FRS handy talkies. You can find the
itinerants here

http://www.strongsignals.net/access/content/faf.html

This is a great use for tone coded squelch. If your favorite business band
VHF frequencies that are shared with the fast food industry uses tone squelch
and if your radio has this feature you will not have to listen to the head
sets.

With the Uniden tone code feature on some scanners, a tone can be locked out.
When you find a fast food frequency do a tone search with your scanner radio,
then lock out that freq.'s tone in order to here other business on the VHF
itinerant frequency. Or tag the freq. /channel in the scanner with that
tone code so you will only hear the order window headsets.
A check of http://www.cityfreq.com for your area may show fast food
frequencies along with many other business. If the fast food outlet is onVHF
the license may be outdated.

They may also have headsets on the non licensed 900 MHz band 902-929 MHz
Using wide band FM (WFM) you can sill hear them with a regular scanner
In narrow FM (nFM) it will just sound tinny and distorted.

Do a frequency search with the radio scanner, concentrate on
920 MHZ to 928 MHz. I haven't herd the order boards here, just WFM headsets.
The range at 900 MHz is ½ mile or just around the parking lot. 460-470MHz
range under a mile, VHF at 154 MHz will get out several miles.
Also search around 461.00-462.500, 463.700-465.00 MHz and 467.730 to 470.00 MHz
also on VHF around 154.500 to 155.00 MHz. and the order board may be downon
the VHF-low band .

The Uniden BC250D preprogrammed SPECIAL service search works well. On a highway
with lots of fast food outlets, watch for cars in the drive up then listen for
the head sets. Take the antenna off your scanner and if you still hear that
head set freq. then it's probably the correct one. In a rural setting a signal
is enough to narrow it down. If your lucky they may greet the folks withthe
name of the outlet!

When posting frequencies please include the TONE CODE along with the operator
and location so all of us can use them!
It really helps even, if a radio can do a tone code search, it's much more
simple
to have them available. This helps identify stations who don't give out call
signs much, with out having to do a tone search! This is something to look for
in frequency
directories.

In several states and foreign countries its illegal to monitor in a vehicle or
even own a
radio (other than broadcast band receivers) let a lone a ‘police scanner’
capable of receiving government signals!
Check this web site for more information and the states where its outlawed

http://www.strongsignals.net/access/content/new_user.html

http://www.afn.org/~afn09444/scanlaws/
Jim

"Michael F." wrote:

I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I haveput
in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks in advance.

Encrypted? Sure....

My local Dairy Queen uses one of the two 154.XXXMHz MURS frequencies...
Forget which one exactly... Try checking those out. You might get lucky...

PH


"Jesse" wrote in message
...
"Michael F." wrote in
:

I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I
have put in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks in
advance.



Sorry to be the one to tell you - DQ went encrypted long ago,and Sonic is
now on SatCom.
You would nned to invest in approx. $27,000 worth of equipment to monitor
them now.

I was at a McDonald's that had two windows, one where you paid, the other
where you picked up your "food". There was a girl at each window

The McDonald's in my area has three windows in the drive-through.

I forget what the third one is for, though. the other two are as you said.

"Michael F." wrote in message
...
I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I have
put
in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks in advance.


They may be using other frequencies than what you programmed in.

Tom

Also, they may be hard-wired, so all the searching in the world isn't going
to help.


--
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc

You also must realise that they only need to transmit a few feet. So
you may not hear them unless your in there parking lot.....

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:38:12 -0800, "Tom Sevart"
wrote:


"Michael F." wrote in message
...
I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I have
put
in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks in advance.


They may be using other frequencies than what you programmed in.

Tom

"PowerHouse CB & Scanner" wrote
in :

Encrypted? Sure....

My local Dairy Queen uses one of the two 154.XXXMHz MURS
frequencies... Forget which one exactly... Try checking those out.
You might get lucky...

PH

Oh sure PH - You fell for the oldest trick in the books.
They want you to THINK that your hearing them,with all the talk of sugar
cones and such,while they enjoy complete security with the really juicy
comms.
The Japs tried the same thing in 41,making fake transmissions from the
homeland seas,and all the while their carriers were heading where ... ?
Pearl Harbor - Thats where.
So don't be lulled into a false sense of security just because you hear
some minimum wage bozo yacking - They hire clowns like that just to fool
the public.
Rest assured,you'd need connections in the NSA to monitor DQ comms.



"Jesse" wrote in message
...
"Michael F." wrote in
:

I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I
have put in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks
in advance.



Sorry to be the one to tell you - DQ went encrypted long ago,and
Sonic is now on SatCom.
You would nned to invest in approx. $27,000 worth of equipment to
monitor them now.

I have a feeling the 900 Mhz head sets may be hard wired form the order board

mike to a speaker back inside, at the window. The headset would only be for
the clerk to
talk to the order board and the antenna for this may be inside at the order
window also.
Jim
Tom Sevart wrote:

"Michael F." wrote in message
...
I have a Dairy Queen and a Sonic within 1/2 mile from me. I know I have
put
in the correct frequencies. Why can't I here them? Thanks in advance.


They may be using other frequencies than what you programmed in.

Tom

THE 900 MHZ SYSTEMS IVE HEARD HAVE THE ORDER BOARD AUDIO..... THE SYSTEMS ARE
USUALLY WFM