2009/07/06 VHF Low-Band - East Ohio EN90

[mtindor]

2009/07/06
as heard from East Ohio EN90QL

29.48 FM simplex - southerners
29.60 FM simplex - VE3SKP QRZ 10m Simplex
29.62 146.2 KQ2H/R
29.64
29.66 146.2 ????DFW repeater - Dallas/FW
30.66 77.0 mexicans
30.74 107.2 mexicans
30.80 118.8 mexicans - lot of chatter
30.86 107.2 repeater - southerners
- referenced roads: 412, 264, wagon wheel; locations: cave springs
- trucking I believe
30.96 346
31.04 173.8 southern accent
31.24 174 "lorain to colmbia river"
31.24 731
31.52 114.8
31.56 192.8
31.76 151.4
31.84 107.2 "29 or 39 job complete - we're cleaning up the pump"
33.04 179.9 hazmat1 responding - "normal" accent
33.15 156.7
33.28 107.2
33.46 114.8 respond to brewster st up close to bradford - man fallen from bike
33.48 clintondale response - fire alarm activation #35 maple ave between 44 and 55 crescent
33.52 127.3
33.54 123.0 respond to mt herman campus? blah blah dorm ?
33.56 179.9
33.66 118.8 ems page - male possible heart attack
33.68 "test of all company 8 pagers"
33.72 131.8
33.80 "173 storage rd?"
33.84 114.8
33.86
33.96 114.8
35.04
35.11 186.2 mexicans
35.12 127.3 southern accents
35.32 141.3 mexicans
35.26 pulsing static
35.28 74.4 mexicans
35.50 pulsing static
35.52 mexicans
35.64 mexicans - paging
35.92 110.9 mexicans - repeater
36.00 114.8 southerners
36.92
37.04 127.3
37.10 162.2
37.12 156.7 records check
37.16 156.7 "boone Co Sheriff" - where?
37.22 141.3
37.48 151.4
37.54 131.8
37.58 114.8 KCB460 Unitil-Concord Electric - Merrimack Co, NH (copied callsign)
37.64 118.8 "i've arrived at Big Lots so that we could get the traffic"
37.76 131.8 new england accent - sounds like jerky boys "roofing"
37.88 88.5
37.88 118.8
39.12 136.5
39.18 118.8
39.48 123.0
39.72 100.0 records check / likely sheriff or pd - slight southern accent
39.76 162.2 EST
39.94 107.2 "weeeee"
39.98 sidney (where?) fire department pager test
42.02 100.0 mentioned segregation - probably a prison or jail
42.12 94.8 MSHP
42.14 186.2 MOHP "240 I'm approaching the mill"
42.16 94.8 MSHP
42.24 186.2 MOHP
42.36 123.0 TNHP
42.36 107.2 TNHP
42.38 173.8 NCHP
42.42 114.8 TNHP
42.42 162.2 TNHP
42.50 173.8 NCHP
42.52 173.8 NCHP
42.58 186.2 MOSP "referenced Sullivan and Bourbon" "ranger 42 can you copy us now?"
42.62 173.8 NCHP "nr columbus" "first bridge on I26"
42.64 173.8 NCHP
42.76 173.8 NCHP
42.86 173.8 NCHP
42.86 203.5 MOHP Troop A
42.96 151.4
43.00 162
43.04 103.5
43.10 162
43.28 107.2 local - fuel filters need changed - hear base/mobile (wnbx268? raymond schall / kitanning?)
43.32 074 southern accents
44.20 meteor scatter
44.22 141.3
44.88
44.70 77.0 OKHP
45.22 77.0 OKHP
45.48 131.8 pager test
45.60 110.9
45.76
45.94 107.2
45.98 203.5 WQJ490 (Childersburg prison - caught CWID) ???700 ???709 ????445
46.08 151.4 Bartow co, GA Fire - lots of pager tones
- respond 137 mountain view rd off ____ drive - possible structure fire - fire stations 1 and 9 respond
46.10 ?? rescue - 14 yr old male having seizure - babylon / kirkview
46.10 new england accents
46.10 100.0
46.12 156.7 fire paging
46.30 072 repeater
46.46 new england - boston? "make up classes tomorrow night"
46.50 EST "test"
47.24 162.2
47.28 136.5
47.68 131.8
48.08 82.5 local - West Penn Power
48.28
48.46
48.20 82.5
49.16 82.5 "brownsville?"
49.32 156.7 "294 1 and 1" - probably electric
49.52

[ibagli]

33.46 114.8
33.48 123.0
33.64 114.8 EMS (Possibly Barnstable County, MA; I hear them a lot)
33.64 114.8 Fire/EMS
33.80 179.9 Windham County, CT Fire
33.82 141.3 Calvert County, MD Fire
33.86 CSQ Susquehanna County, PA Fire
33.88 173.9
33.94 179.9
33.96 114.8
33.98 151.4 (Pretty sure this one isn't skip)
35.82 192.8
39.28 110.9 Maryland State Police
39.64 110.9 Maryland State Police
39.96 110.9 Maryland State Police
42.50 173.8 NCHP
42.82 173.8 NCHP "North of I-73"
45.14 156.7
46.32 CSQ (Probably Fire somewhere in NY)

[mtindor]

Nice. I didn't catch any MD stuff. I was shocked when I was hearing the boston accents, because when I started i was catching all the Mexicans and then eventually I was hearing TN/NC. So getting it from the NE caught me off guard. Them bastards sure talk fast too rofl.

I logged a Barnstable Co freq a few days ago I think - I don't think it was the same one you logged. When I went into the RRDB and looked at barnstable Co, I think there was a ton of 33 mhz freqs if I recall correctly.

Mike

PS: I need to ask KKN50 what in the world he is using to log his audio traffic - because he is able to produce audio logs for the things he can't identify. It'd be handy if i could do the same.

[ibagli]

Back before they PL controlled the inputs on the dozen or so 33.860 repeaters in my county, Barnstable (and some stuff in Connecticut) would open them up every time there was a band opening.

[kkn50]

Uniden BCD396T scanner connected to a laptop running Butel ARC396 auto-logging and recording software.

It logs each tranmission with freq/tone/date/time and creates a separate WAV file for each that is tagged with the same info.

You can leave your scanner running 24/7 and check the logs and files when it's convenient. Has certainly made scanning the low band much easier.

Originally Posted by mtindor

PS: I need to ask KKN50 what in the world he is using to log his audio traffic.

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by kkn50

Uniden BCD396T scanner connected to a laptop running Butel ARC396 auto-logging and recording software.

It logs each tranmission with freq/tone/date/time and creates a separate WAV file for each that is tagged with the same info.

You can leave your scanner running 24/7 and check the logs and files when it's convenient. Has certainly made scanning the low band much easier.

And it does this in search mode (where there aren't actually any frequencies stored) ? I was going to use IDTrackerII for my PSR-500 (which I think is a great app), but i didn't think it would do that. I play around a bit with it instead of assuming things.

Thanks bud!

Mike

[kkn50]

Search or scan mode.

Originally Posted by mtindor

And it does this in search mode (where there aren't actually any frequencies stored) ?

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by kkn50

Search or scan mode.

Ok im playing around now to see if I can get something working.

Mike

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by kkn50

Search or scan mode.

What sample rate do you use when recording?

Mike

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by mtindor

2009/07/06
as heard from East Ohio EN90QL

30.86 107.2 repeater - southerners
- referenced roads: 412, 264, wagon wheel; locations: cave springs
- trucking I believe

Probably be the Mid-Continent Concrete Company which apparently has several repeaters surrounding Cave Springs, Arkansas. License WQGE864.

Originally Posted by mtindor

33.54 123.0 respond to mt herman campus? blah blah dorm ?

Probably Gill, Massachusetts Fire, responding to Northfield Mount Hermon school

Originally Posted by mtindor

37.16 156.7 "boone Co Sheriff" - where?

Probably Boone County, Arkansas, per this thread.

What kind of setup are you using for radio, antenna, and antenna height?

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

Probably be the Mid-Continent Concrete Company which apparently has several repeaters surrounding Cave Springs, Arkansas. License WQGE864.

Probably Gill, Massachusetts Fire, responding to Northfield Mount Hermon school
Probably Boone County, Arkansas, per this thread.

What kind of setup are you using for radio, antenna, and antenna height?

Thanks for all the info! I'm using a PRO-197, DPD OmniX up 10 foot off of the back deck of our ranch home (think plumbing PVC as a mast stuck through where an umbrella used to go on a deck table). 50 feet of LMR 400 in between. My locatoin is at about 1200 feet (highest county elevation is a little over 1300).

Mike

[Gilligan]

Originally Posted by mtindor

Thanks for all the info! I'm using a PRO-197, DPD OmniX up 10 foot off of the back deck of our ranch home (think plumbing PVC as a mast stuck through where an umbrella used to go on a deck table). 50 feet of LMR 400 in between. My locatoin is at about 1200 feet (highest county elevation is a little over 1300).

Mike

Lucky you. I'm an apartment dweller but I remember the old days when I lived at home. I didn't work in the summer (still in school), so I'd go out in the backyard and rig up a 30-foot temporary mast using the old swingset for stability. The 10M ham repeaters were coming in and I heard a convoy on the move on 36 MHz once. Oh yea and then there was the time I heard the Hardees drive-thru from like 1.75 miles away. Another time I had a 5-ft whip attached to the scanner on my bike. Imagine my surprise when I heard my first scanner-skip (not expecting it). It was a 10M repeater identifying itself as being all the way out in Washington State and I was hearing it on my bike in Maryland. What a thrill. Oh, how I miss those days sometimes. I can't wait until I have my own home and I can put whatever I want up in the yard or on the roof. Time will tell... Thanks for the input.

[mtindor]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

What a thrill. Oh, how I miss those days sometimes. I can't wait until I have my own home and I can put whatever I want up in the yard or on the roof. Time will tell... Thanks for the input.

I know where you're coming from. Incidentally, where I live now I'm not at liberty to put up a tower or any kind of structure that could be seen by the masses and be determined an eyesore. I agree though - I'm fortunate enough to be at a high elevation and thus be able to still have some decent scanner reception without having to put something up 50 feet in the air. I'd still like to though But I can sympathize with your situation, although to a lesser extent.

I can remember when I first got into amateur radio back in the early 90s, I think the current solar cycle at that time was at its peak. I'd wake up in the morning at 5:00/5:30 am and there'd always be DX coming in on 10 meters from Germany and other places. Back then I wasn't listening to scanners for some odd reason, or I'm sure I would have heard a lot of skip back during hte cycle's peak.

Good news, if you can hold out a few years, the current solar cycle is on its way up and will reach its peak in a few years. So the skip that we all hear is going to become more frequent, stronger, and from more varied places. I can't wait

Mike