Open carrier: 460.375, CTCSS 100.0

[KB7MIB]

Has anyone else in the Peoria/Sun City area (or anywhere else in the Valley for that matter) heard the open carrier on UAIRS 460.375 with a tone of 100.0? It's been there for a couple of days now.

It's not very strong in the area of 91st and Peoria Aves, moving the scanner around causes the signal to come and go.

I've also caught it near 107th and Grand Aves while mobile.

John
Peoria

 

[rwier]

Has anyone else in the Peoria/Sun City area (or anywhere else in the Valley for that matter) heard the open carrier on UAIRS 460.375 with a tone of 100.0? It's been there for a couple of days now.

It's not very strong in the area of 91st and Peoria Aves, moving the scanner around causes the signal to come and go.

I've also caught it near 107th and Grand Aves while mobile.

John
Peoria

Hi John,

I-17 and Peoria here. Using HP-1 (E), i made a new FL (Sentinel Software) with a single analogue frequency (460.375/CTCSS 100.0). Put it in the HP-1 (E) and began scanning that single frequency. Sentinel chose "Custom 1" as the "Service Type" so I turned "Custom 1" on in the scanner. Set the squelch to zero (normal is two). Not a peep. No sign of a signal.

Note: This is not a procedure that I have tried before, so my report may not mean a thing.

Did a search in RR Frequency DB and returned http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?freq=460.375&tone=&action=isf&stid[]=4&coid=1

 

[rwier]

Also see Common/Shared Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

 

[N9JIG]

Has anyone else in the Peoria/Sun City area (or anywhere else in the Valley for that matter) heard the open carrier on UAIRS 460.375 with a tone of 100.0? It's been there for a couple of days now.

It's not very strong in the area of 91st and Peoria Aves, moving the scanner around causes the signal to come and go.

I've also caught it near 107th and Grand Aves while mobile.

John
Peoria

Thank you! I thought I was going crazy hearing this!

I hear it out here 15 miles west of Surprise and when I went into town yesterday it varied in signal strength.

 

[KB7MIB]

Circa 2009, per the SWFD-10, the UAIRS 460.375 CTCSS lineup was:

156.7 UAIRS-AZ
141.3 UAIRS-1
131.8 UAIRS-2
110.0 UAIRS-3
123.0 UAIRS-4
167.9 UAIRS-5
100.0 UAIRS-Direct

On VHF AIRS (155.475 with 155.190 input), the CTCSS lineup was:

156.7 VAIRS-AZ
141.3 VAIRS-1
131.8 VAIRS-2
110.9 VAIRS-3
123.0 VAIRS-4
167.9 VAIRS-5
156.7 VAIRS-Direct

On 8AIRS 866.0125, the CTCSS lineup was:
156.7 8AIRS-AZ
141.3 8AIRS-1
131.8 8AIRS-2
110.9 8AIRS-3
123.0 8AIRS-4
167.9 8AIRS-5
156.7 8AIRS-Direct

(BTW, there's an either open carrier or an interfering signal on 8AIRS around the ASU West campus. Every time I'm northbound on 43rd Ave, as soon as I get to Sweetwater Ave, it pops up. I don't recall if there's a tone on it.)

The AIRS-AZ channels (156.7 tone) were all supposed to be linked together for cross-band interoperability. Bringing up one would bring up all 3.

The AIRS channels were allocated:
AIRS-1 Maricopa County
AIRS-2 Pima/Santa Cruz/Coconino Counties
AIRS-3 Yuma/La Paz/Pinal/Gila Counties
AIRS-4 Mohave/Navajo/Apache Counties
AIRS-5 Yavapai/Cochise/Graham/Greenlee Counties

The VCALL, VTAC, UCALL, UTAC and 8TAC channels all had a CTCSS of 156.7.

The VTAC channels were allocated:
VTAC-11 Yuma/La Paz/Pinal/Gila Counties
VTAC-12 Maricopa/Mohave/Cochise/Graham/Greenlee Counties
VTAC-13 Pima/Santa Cruz/Coconino Counties
VTAC-14 Yavapai/Navajo/Apache Counties

Some of this may have been reallocated in the past 6 years, and may no longer be accurate.

John
Peoria