New York Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop

Scanner frequencies for the annual Times Square New Years Celebration

• Radioreference.com forum thread - "NYC New Year's ball drop"

Public Safety Radio Information

king county waahington Citywide Frequencies

Frequency	Input	License	Type	Tone	Alpha Tag	Description	Mode	Tag
470.83750	473.83750	WIF567	RM	136.5 PL	NYPD SOD	Special Operations Division	FM	Law Dispatch
470.63750	473.63750	WIF561	RM	EF1 NAC	NYPD VIP Escort	VIP Escort (Detective 2)	P25	Law Tac
470.66250	473.66250	WQON439	RM	167.9 PL	NYPD WTC	World Trade Center Patrols	FM	Law Tac
470.68750	473.68750	WIK936	RM	100.0 PL	NYPD CW 1	Citywide 1	FM	Law Dispatch
470.71250	473.71250	WIK929	RM	110.9 PL	NYPD CW 2	Citywide 2	FM	Law Dispatch
470.86250	473.86250	WIF562	RM	151.4 PL	NYPD CW 3	Citywide 3	FM	Law Dispatch
470.73750	473.73750	WIF565	RM	186.2 PL	NYPD DET CW	Detective Citywide (Detective 1)	FM	Law Tac
470.76250	473.76250	WIF563	RM	EF2 NAC	NYPD IAB	Internal Affairs Bureau	P25	Law Tac
471.01250	474.01250	WIF569	RM	EF3 NAC	NYPD OCCB	Organized Crime Control Bureau	P25	Law Tac
471.13750	474.13750	WIF566	RM	EF4 NAC	NYPD Command	Command	P25	Law Tac
470.81250	473.81250	WIF559	RM	123.0 PL	NYPD Traffic	Traffic Division (Highway Units)	FM	Law Dispatch
482.46250	485.46250	WIM527	RM	123.0 PL	NYPD SI Traffic	Staten Island Traffic Division (Highway Units)	FM	Law Dispatch
482.66250	485.66250	WIM487	RM	100.0 PL	NYPD SI CW 1	Staten Island Citywide 1	FM	Law Dispatch
482.63750	485.63750	WIM654	RM	110.9 PL	NYPD SI CW 2	Staten Island Citywide 2	FM	Law Dispatch
482.43750	485.43750	WIM523	RM	151.4 PL	NYPD SI CW 3	Staten Island Citywide 3	FM	Law Dispatch
471.11250	474.11250	WIF536	RM	110.9 PL	NYPD CDCW	Communications Div., Fleet Services	FM	Law Tac
123.10000			BM		NYPD Aviation	Aviation Unit	AM	Aircraft
470.88750	473.88750	WIF560	RM	EF0 NAC	NYPD CW 4	Citywide 4	P25	Law Dispatch

• If you have an extra scanner, consider monitoring/searching the federal frequencies 162.685-171 and 406-420.

Non-Public Safety Radio Information

Non-public safety frequencies reportedly used for the 2007-2008 event (source):

• 123.1000 (CSQ) Helicopter to Helicopter
• 123.0250 (CSQ) News Helicopters
• 123.0500 (CSQ) Hudson River Air Traffic
• 164.9125 (P25) Coast Guard boats p25 digital
• 450.2125 (CSQ) ABC Director for Dick Clark New Years Eve show

For cleanup, consider monitoring:

• 453.6000 (114.8) NY Department of Sanitation - Manhattan

Other sources of information

The December 2007 issue of Popular Communications had an article about holiday scanning in New York City.

N2NOV's NYC Multi-Agency frequency page

W2LIE's annual Live Feed of the Ball Drop

Radioreference.com New York City frequency page

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