Central Florida Listeners Group

CFLG is a group of people who are interested in shortwave listening, broadcast band DXing (listening to commercial AM and FM stations in other parts of the country/world), trunked radio systems (both public safety and private systems), pirate stations, VHF/UHF scanning, and many other aspects of the communications hobby. Most of the members are Amateur Radio operators in the Central Florida (i.e. Orlando) area. The group has been around since November 1992. The group is not formally incorporated, there is no "official member list" or anything like that, it's just a bunch of people with a shared interest in the scanning hobby, who talk every week and who get together in person every so often.

This page is NOT the official home page for CFLG. This page is here to serve as an "index" of pages relating to CFLG. I registered the domain and created the page during the net on 2007-10-07, because I was listening to the net and it seemed to take FOREVER to give out a few URLs for the group's home page and other associated pages. I figured it might be easier to give out a short, easy-to-remember name, and "cflg.us" certainly fits the bill.

The group's home page is http://www.qsl.net/cflg/. However, I have offered to donate the "cflg.us" domain name to the group, as well as free web hosting on my server, if they want to use this domain name as their official web site. I haven't heard back from anybody yet.

The group's primary activity is an amateur radio "net", on the KT4AZ 147.120 repeater in Orlando, every Sunday evening at 8pm local time. Group members check into the net once a week to talk about things that they enjoy listening to on a regular basis, as well as unusual things they may have heard during the past few weeks. If you have an Amateur Radio license, feel free to check in (the repeater's input is PLUS 600 KHz, and requires a CTCSS tone of 103.5 Hz.) If not, feel free to listen (set your scanner to 147.120.)

The group also has face-to-face get-togethers from time to time, so that people can meet each other, put faces with the call signs, and generally enjoy each others' company. It also gives non-amateurs who may listen on a regular basis, a chance to meet everybody as well.

Net Notes

Below is a list of the notes recorded by the net control operator for each net, as they are sent to me. If you are running the net and need to send these notes to me, please send them in plain text format, and I will post them here.

• 2009-04-19

Scanning Links

• http://www.qsl.net/cflg/ is CFLG's official home page. The server hosting that page can be rather slow, please be patient.

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFLG/ is a "Yahoo Group" which many of the members use to keep in touch, particularly the memebers who don't have Amateur licenses, and the members who used to live in the area but have since moved.

• http://www.radioreference.com/ is "the world's largest radio communications reference website, with complete conventional frequency assignments, trunked radio system information, frequencies, and talkgroups, FCC License assignments and maps, 10-Code Lists, agency maps, files, downloads, links, and detailed agency information for most public safety, military, and local government activities."

• http://home.cfl.rr.com/scanner/ is the East Central Florida Scanner Page. It's probably one of the best "reference" sites out there in terms of frequencies for this part of Florida. If you're looking to get started with listening in the Orlando area, this is probably the best site in terms of finding frequencies, and in terms of trunk system information.

• http://www.strongsignals.net/ is a HUGE site, a reference for the listening hobby in general. It is not specific to the Central Florida area.

• http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp is the FCC's License Search page. This can be useful if you need to look up the owner of a given call sign (Amateur or otherwise) or if you need to identify the licensee of an unknown frequency on which you may be hearing activity.

  Note that the FCC does have other interfaces available to search their databases, http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/General_Menu_Reports/ is one of them.

• http://heliosj.iddings.us/main/scanner is a page created by Jeff Iddings W4GPL (I like that call sign!) where you can listen to live audio from his scanners, which are monitoring the Orange and Seminole county trunk systems.

Amateur Radio Links

• http://www.oarc.org/ is the home page of the Orlando Amateur Radio Club.

• http://www.qsl.net/lmars/ is the home page of the Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society, in Seminole County (north of Orlando.)

• http://www.k4fc.org/ is the home page of the Lake Amateur Radio Association, in Lake County (northwest of Orlando.)

• http://www.147120.com/ is the home page for the KT4AZ 147.120 Repeater, located in the northwest corner of Orlando. This is one of the most active repeaters in the Orlando area, and because its antenna is almost 500 feet in the air, it has one of the best "footprints" out there. I have personally used the repeater from as far out as Leesburg and Melbourne.

• http://www.eham.net/ is a web site full of articles dealing with just about every facet of Amateur Radio. Very highly recommended, if you aren't already familiar with it.

• http://www.rigpix.com/ is a web site full of pictures of, and information about, radios and their accessories.

Other Links

These are links to pages which don't necessarily have to do with scanning or Amateur radio, but which I think are of interest of the kind of people who are normally "into" ham radio and scanning.

• http://www.leap-cf.org/ is the home page for Linux Enthusiats And Professionals, Inc., the local Linux User Group for the Orlando area. Many of LEAP's members are also hams, and I often get asked about Linux and LEAP when I'm out with other hams, so I figure this link makes sense here.

Home Pages

• http://www.kg4zow.us/ is John Simpson KG4ZOW (that's me!) I work as a freelance computer consultant, http://www.jms1.net/ is my "normal" web page.

• http://www.qsl.net/n4tyv/cflg/ is a page written by Randy Johnson N4TYV, who used to live in the Orlando area but has since moved away. The page seems to indicate that at one time he had an archive of recordings of old nets, but the page doesn't seem to have any links to them.

• http://www.kc4zvw.us/ is a page written by David Billsbrough KC4ZVW. It includes more links than this page does. Definitely worth checking out.

Please email me (address below) if you have any suggestions for this page, links to be added to the lists, or would like to see your own home page listed here, especially if it relates to Amateur radio or scanning.

Thanks (so far) to Joe Mattern WX4ADX for suggesting several of the links on this page.

Copyright 2007-2010 John M. Simpson KG4ZOW <kg4zow@kg4zow.us> (PGP key)
Last updated 2009-04-20 08:11:23 -0400