RR User Guide

RadioReference.com Policies and Procedures

• RR Database Submission Guidelines - Want to submit data to the Radio Reference Database? Look here for information on how to send us data.
• Data Removal Policy - Why was my article (page, data) dropped?
• Legal
• Terms and Conditions of Use
• What is the Infraction System?

RadioReference.com General Site Questions

• I cant seem to login to the site. What am I doing wrong?
  • See the Login Problems article for some suggestions and fixes

• "What services are provided without charge on this site?"
  • See the Free Services article for a specific list of free services available in this site

• "I purchased a subscription, so why am I not listed as a contributing user?"
  • Answer: There are a number of reasons why, however the most common include:
    • You made your donation with a Paypal e-check, which requires a few days to clear Paypal before you are granted access as a donating users.
    • You mailed in a check, which takes a few days to go through the mail and clear.

• "I subscribed, and now I see an entry called MyRR. What is this?'"
  • Answer: This is the page you get that shows what states, counties and other items you have selected for review. It's a quick way to keep an eye on only those areas in which you have an interest.

RadioReference Web Service

• ''How do I use the RadioReference.com Web Service?''
  • Answer: The RadioReference.com Web Service is a SOAP interface to all of the system information in the RR Database. It is available to all donating users of the site. See the RadioReference.com Web Service article for more information on applications that support the Web service, and the specification for applications developers.

• ''What do I need to do to access the Web Service?''
  • Answer: To access the web service, one must purchase a premium subscription

• ''Is there a new release for the Web Service?''
  • Answer: See the RadioReference.com Web Service3.1 article for more information

RadioReference Database

• ''In the Radio Reference Database, What are Location Based Attributes and how are they interpreted?''

Location based attributes are used to specify when a frequency or talkgroup is used in a portion of a region (northern part of the city, South County, ect.) rather than the entire region. Please see the Location Based Info article for more information.

• ''What are Tags, and what purpose do they serve?''

Tags are used to group frequencies and talkgroups by services; eventually one will be able to query the database by location and service, giving much more accurate results. See our Tags article for the valid values for this feature.

• ''How do I categorize data when adding tags to the database?''
• ''What standard abbreviations are recommended for adding data to the database?''

See our Database Administrator Handbook for guidelines on abbreviations, tags and other issues encountered when adding tag and service information to the database.

• ''How can I dynamically pull data from the database into my website?''

Please see our API article for more information.

• ''How can I find out more about the conventional data in the database?''

Please see the Common Conventional Programming Questions article

• ''How can I find out more about the trunked data in the database?''

Please see the Common Trunking Programming Questions article

• ''How can I order the RR CD? I am traveling where the Internet is hard to connect to''

Please see the RR CD Apr2009 for where you can order the CD and what software works with it. Here is the October 2008 release of the CD

• ''Why is the data for my local federal/military system missing? It was there some time ago''

There was a time when federal or military systems that sent a note to the webmaster had their data removed due to security concerns. This policy was changed in 2008 - please see the Restricted Info article for more information

• ''How can I interpret the various radio service codes in the database?''

Please see the FCC Radio Service Codes for the link to the glossary for these codes.