My friend Dave runs a site that, while not necessarily aesthetically pleasing, is chock-full of good information for scanning in New York State. Go to www.nf2g.com and once you are in, click Frequencies for a list of NY counties. From there, when you select a county and then a class of service, there will be a heading over each subclass. If the subclass heading is a clickable link, it will take you to a list of codes used in that area.

Another good place to go to ask questions is the Popular Wireless BBS. It is at www.popularwireless.com . I am one of the moderators there; my screen name there is Critter.

Of course, every company, agency, organization etc. that uses radios will have its own jargon. For that matter, I even know of one family that uses Esperanto to obfuscate their communications.

Ham radio jargon is something I could help with, maybe. If you have heard a term used on ham radio, post it, and I can translate it for you. There are, really, several different sets of it, with considerable overlap; which set is being used is mostly a function of what band is being used and where the endpoints are.

I forget, Doc, are you a ham operator? Maybe this last bit isn't news to you.