Football Scanning

Football season is just about to begin. Here are some scanning tips to monitoring the action of Steelers and Pitt football games.

Heinz Field :
Heinz Field is on the City Of Pittsburgh TRS system. You can leave it as type II and program in the talkgroups, and close the bank. The fleet map for the City of Pittsburgh TRS with Heinz Field is Block 0 S 12, Block 2 S 12, Block 4 S 4, Block 5 S 4, Block 6 S 0, and Block 7 S 3. You will want to close the bank to receive only these talkgroups.
53248 - Fleet
53264 - Dispatch
53280 - Stadium Operations
53296 - Security
53312 - Event Staff
53328 - Public Relations
53344 - Ticket
53360 - Marketing
53376 - Merchandising
53392 - Maintenance
53408 - Electrician
53424 - CONSTL
53440 - CPS
53456 - Score Board
53475 - Video
53488 - Football Ops
53504 - Grounds
53520 - Guest Services
53536 - Gates
53552 - CSC Alternate
53584 - Warehouse
53600 - Concessions
53616 - Club
53632 - Kitchen
53648 - Suites
53664 - ARA Management
53664 - Fire Department Inspections
53696 - Event 1
53712 - CSC Management
53728 - Steeler Management

In addition to the TRS they use 461.550 PL 218.1 simplex with security outside of the stadium.

NFL :
The NFL is licensed to several frequencies. I have monitored a few at the games. It appears they have a pair (Input / output) for every team for the quarter back radios. These radios run as a repeater (low power) so that the NFL can cut it off when rules state. These radios are also voice inversion scrambled, so you really can't understand what they are saying. They also use freqs to coordinate game day activities. NFL freqs I have been able to confirm :

461.0875 - DPL 134 - Cleveland Browns
461.1875 - DPL UNK - Tampa Bay Bucaneers
461.3625 - DPL 226 - Denver Broncos
461.4875 - DPL 311 - Philadelphia Eagles
461.5625 - DPL 025 - Cincinnati Bengals
461.7125 - DPL UNK - Miami Dolphinis
463.2375 - DPL 464 - Baltimore Ravens
463.2875 - DPL UNK - New York Jets
463.8875 - DPL 131 - Green Bay Packers
463.9125 - DPL 047 - Kansas City Chiefs
464.4375 - DPL UNK - Tennessee Titans
464.6875 - DPL 143 - New Orleans Saints
464.7375 - DPL UNK - Jacksonville Jaguars
464.9375 - DPL UNK - New England Patriots
462.0625 - DPL 245 - Pittsburgh Steelers

It is not possible to monitor the coaches. The NFL uses a proprietary system made by Telex (even though they have Motorola on the head sets), called the Lombardi system.

Pitt will also use these frequencies at games :
452.300 - PL 156.7 - Athletics
453.150 - PL 103.5 - Police (Repeater)
453.800 - PL 103.5 - Buses (Repeater)
468.875 - DPL 263 - Athletics
469.125 - UNK PL/DPL - Athletics
470.8375 - PL 114.8 - Athletics
473.8375 - PL 156.7 - Athletics

Those freqs are mainly coordinating activities around the field (cheerleaders, band, stats, equipment, and on field activities. Again it is not possible to monitor the coaches

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