Oglethorpe Speedway; April 25, 2008

Last night, my schedule allowed one of my rare trips out to Oglethorpe Speedway. I always enjoy getting out to the short track and last night was no exception. There was some good racing and plenty to listen out for on the radio.

The Track Operations/Race Officials channel is unchanged from last year. The "Race Receiver" used for the Officials to talk to the Drivers during the races is now on 454.0000 MHz.

461.5000 - Track Operations/Race Officials (DCS 026)
454.0000 - Race Receiver (Officials to Drivers)

There were plenty of radios in use by the teams, mostly in the Street Stock and Late Model fields, although there were some in use in all of the levels racing. I really didn't try to match car numbers with frequencies last night, but one channel stood out in particular: 463.6875 MHz. The female spotter on this channel, apparently the driver's wife, did an outstanding spotting job making it the most interesting team frequency to monitor.

450.7250
451.4750
452.7750
455.1250
456.9500
461.6500
461.7125
461.7625
462.6250
463.2750
463.6875
464.5750
464.7875
468.7250
469.3875

Once again, I would reccomend taking two radios to the track in order to monitor most efficiently. One radio scanning the officials and the race receiver would keep you on top of the action while you used the second radio to search for and scan the teams.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net