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99.9% of the time 159.915 is race control.
As for hearing all corners from anywhere at the track, that depends on the corner and where you are. Due to the layout at summit point race control has a nice high gain base station and properly mounted antenna and they can hear everyone loud and clear. But depending on where you are a the track you may night hear some of the stations if your wearing a scanner on your belt line. WDCR does not use a repeater to rebroadcast the calls like other locations (watkins glen, Road Atlanta (though that may have changed.)
Glad you had a good time. Being able to hear what is going on gives a whole new dimension and perspective to what is going on.
We, of F&C genre, still have some difficulty hearing each other on some stations occasionally. Sometimes Station 10 will have difficulty hearing Station 7 or, Station 10 will have problems hearing Station 7, etc. It is mainly due to low power VHF radios, dense vegetation this time of year, varying atmospheric conditions, and the operators proximity to Armco barriers or other large metal objects (cars or trucks) between the transmitter and the other stations. Race control sits well above track level and has a mast antenna on the roof to boot so we don’t have much of a problem hearing all of the stations.
The problem with many multi-band scanners is they are set up to be able to receive a wide band of frequencies and the antenna is not tuned to a specific frequency or range. These receivers tend to loose a weak signal more readily than radios set up for a specific channel. THus we may not hear all of the stations all of the time on our scanners.
To answer an earlier question in this thread, we use the VHF high band for communications for the WDC Region at Summit Point. Some of the other tracks or SCCA regions use UHF (400 MHz range) for their communications. For those of us who travel quite a bit the multi-band VHF-UHF scanners are the best choice and usually work very well in track environments.
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but everyone hears Race Control (unless there is a keyed up radio in the area).
Hi i was at turn 10 and could hear some coners.Since the race i got a better ant for the scanner.Here at Nashville Superspeedway (NSS) they use UHF for the track both oval and road course.Ihope to be up for the labor day race weekend !That DSR sure was fast as was the red vette! June 14th and 15th is a Double Sarrc with a 3 hr night race at NSS. Thanks for the freqs. Angelo : )
Glad you made it. You should try the stands on the outside of the track near turn 7 and watch the cars down the chute... what a view!
The DSR was #8 Jean-Luc Liverato, he shattered the Summit Point lap record by over 2 seconds and set a blistering 1:07:634 as the new mark for DSR. His time was just a couple of short tics shy of the all time track record. Average speed at 104.01.
The red Corvette GT1 #23 was Amy Ruman whom also managed to set a track record for GT1 with a 1:11.294, average speed at 98.197.
Watch for both of these Nationals drivers and their cars at the June Sprints and at the Runoffs.
There were several records set on Sunday at the Nationals. What a day!!!
Maybe you should join us on the corners some day, can’t get closer to the action other than being in a car…