153.7625

[chaser915]

I have posted about this before and had another question. To recap, all of my county's mobile units for the fire depts. use 153.7625 with PL 179.9, while dispatch remains on 46.18.

Using the same freq/PL are either fire or EMS units way south of me. Whoever covers Palisades Parkway comes to mind as one of them. I also get units from way up NORTH like Watertown. Now, I have noticed alot of activity from the Town Of Philadelphia too, which I believe is also up near Watertown.

Signals are strong, not something that I could use the ATT feature to cut out. All have the same PLs.

I will ask for your expertise. Short of just locking it out and only activating it when I hear activity from dispatch, is there ANYTHING else I can do?

Thanks. This is driving me crazy!

 

[GTR8000]

Your question was already answered in this post in your other thread on this exact same subject:

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?p=541333#post541333

What I don't think you're understanding is that in Schoharie County, 153.7625 is setup as a repeater, and it is either simulcasting or crossband repeating 46.180. What this means is that ANYTHING that repeater picks up over 46.180 will get broadcast over 153.7625, regardless of PL. The PL is irrelevant actually, as evidenced by the fact that Rockland County (the Palisades Parkway transmissions you're picking up) DOES NOT USE 179.9, we use 131.8 on 46.180. No one around here uses 153.7625, so you are NOT picking us up on that VHF frequency.

So what it boils down to is you can do NOTHING to rectify the problem of hearing distant stations that use 46.180. You are at the mercy of the county in this situation. Now, had they set the repeater up with a receive PL for 46.180, this problem would not exist.

 

[chaser915]

Geez sorry to impose, as your rather frosty response suggests.
Sorry to use such valuable bandwidth.

I wont post any more and will ask the admin. to delete my account.

Happy New Year.

 

[APX8000]

Happy New Year to you too !!!

 

[LathamScan]

While we're on the topic of 153.7625 -

I was cruising around in the North Adams & Williamstown, MA area yesterday and I was picking up quite a bit of traffic on 153.7625 (179.9). It was Middletown Dispatch dispatching fire departments to calls, using the callsign KCB-854. I looked it up in the FCC database, and this is a department in Connecticut using 46.18 MHz.

Now, for the strange part. I can't find a valid FCC license for 153.7625 anywhere in or near Schoharie County. I have found one licensed for Dutchess County, but it indicates it is a repeater input rather than an output or base station.

Just adding my info.

 

[nozzlenut83]

While we're on the topic of 153.7625 -

I was cruising around in the North Adams & Williamstown, MA area yesterday and I was picking up quite a bit of traffic on 153.7625 (179.9). It was Middletown Dispatch dispatching fire departments to calls, using the callsign KCB-854. I looked it up in the FCC database, and this is a department in Connecticut using 46.18 MHz.

Now, for the strange part. I can't find a valid FCC license for 153.7625 anywhere in or near Schoharie County. I have found one licensed for Dutchess County, but it indicates it is a repeater input rather than an output or base station.

Just adding my info.

Dutchess County Highway Dept uses 153.7625 (127.3) as their repeater output with the input on 159.0975. Not sure what happened with the license or the building of the system. Things must have been switched around.

Hope this helps,
nozzlenut83

 

[LathamScan]

I have heard 153.7625 (127.3) before and I wasn't sure who it was. Now that you mention it, I remember back when we put Albany County Sheriff's ESIRS repeater on the air we got a phone call from Dutchess County. They were worried the 159.0975 output of ESIRS was going to interfere with one of their repeaters. I hadn't heard anything since, so I guess it isn't causing harmful interference.

I have not heard 153.7625 (127.3) and 153.7625 (179.9) on the air at the same time, though. Usually, it's one or the other.

Thanks for the info.

Kevin

 

[DaveNF2G]

Now, for the strange part. I can't find a valid FCC license for 153.7625 anywhere in or near Schoharie County.

I just tried the range from 153.755 to 153.770 MHz for Schoharie County and also came up with nothing from the FCC database.