I listen to Slide Mtn for most of Washoe County, its the strongest. McClellan NSRS doesnt have much Washoe County stuff on it except Truckee Meadows and Washoe Sheriff i hear on McClellan.
Slide Mtn is where i hear all of the WCRCS stuff, the downtown site may have more of WCRCS stuff of it but it is so weak hear that its not practicle to monitor. I can hear 002 Slide(WCRCS),022 McClellan(NSRS),023 Pine Grove(NSRS),Pinenut(NSRS),120 Muller Rd(NSRS),Bald(NSRS),Corey(NSRS) fair to excellent. I can give more detailed info if needed this is off the top of my head.
Pine Grove is active it seems unless NHP,NDOT or NV Energy are in that area it doesnt make a sound, however i have heard NHP south of yerington using it as well as the Bald Mtn & Corey pk sites.
Interesting Bill, that you are able to pick up Bald and Corey from the Gardnerville area. I can't pick up Corey from Mammoth. I am able to hear VHF frequencies from Corey quite well, but the 800 MHz frequencies don't come in at all. I'm able to pick up ham UHF from there as well. I wish I could hear the 800 MHz stuff as I would really like to hear what happening on the highways in Nevada. The Glass Mountain range is between me and Corey. With elevations above 9,000 feet it is blocking the more line of sight higher frequencies.
I think I have Pine Nut programmed into my Nevada file, but maybe not. With every EDACS site needing a separate bank in scanners, I'm not able to put but a few into my scanners, especially some of the previous generation ones like my PRO-96. That might explain my difficulty picking up the NSRS in the Double Springs area.
I wish Nevada has opted for a Motorola Smartzone system. I've programmed all the control frequencies for the Southern California Edison system and pick up the closest site no matter where I travel, from Visalia to Phoenix. It only needs one "system" configuration (including one list of frequencies) to do this. Having to take up one system for each site really limits me when I travel about Nevada. I would love to take a trip into Nevada to drive on the highways I haven't been on and to gather information about some of the sites that don't have confirmed control channel info on them listed in the database. That would take a couple of weeks and put a lot of miles on the car, something I don't do much anymore as the price of gas, mileage and the cost of replacing a car have gone up so much since our income has been reduced due to our early retirements.
Another thing I noticed about the database for the NSRS is that it lists the talkgroups of the old Sierra Pacific company and not the NV Energy (or whatever it used to be called) system in southern Nevada. It often seems as though if the organization's vehicles don't have red or red/blue lights on them no one takes an interest in the radio system. It is great that some time has been spent of figuring out the NDOT talkgroups however.
KF7RAY, I haven't had a chance to put the lat and long into my topographical software yet to determine where that site is on the license you gave me the link to. The microwave site west of Holbrook Junction is where the Douglas County south repeaters are located. The microwave backbone of the State of California is also there. The eastern Sierra loop of this system hops from Conway Summit to Pine Grove and then on to this site. From there it goes up to Scout Peak on the Lake Tahoe rim.
Slide Mountain has fewer frequencies on the Washoe County system so I've been assuming that it carries less traffic there than the Peavine or Red Mtn. sites. I may have noticed less traffic up there on just some of the talkgroups with busier dispatch talkgroups being equal to all three sites.