2007/12/29 VHF Low - So Texas

[kkn50]

2007/12/29
QTH: South Texas, EL09
Rig: BCD396T w/ dipole & ARC logging/recording software

Band opened at 17:21 CST with hams then at 19:22 CST with very strong signals from the Missouri Highway Patrol.

29.640 - Hams, ID sounded like "N4R repeater"
35.960 - "if we did that you wouldn't get to quit until midnight!"
42.060/203.5 - Police, Missouri HP
42.120/203.5 - Police
42.380/173.8 - Police
42.400/173.8 - Police, Missouri HP
42.440/162.2 - Police
42.580/186.2 - Police, KAA958, Missouri HP
42.640/186.2 - Police, KAB302, Missouri HP
42.820/186.2 - Police, Missouri HP
42.860/203.5 - Police, Missouri HP
42.940/203.5 - Police, Missouri HP
44.200 - Meteor scatter
44.580 - Meteor scatter

 

[brandon]

Do you run the ARC software during the day to catch these or do you monitor at the right time? Your always on top of the band openings As always, great logs and thanks for sharing!

 

[kkn50]

I have a laptop running ARC and one scanner devoted to VHF low band running almost full-time. I only spend about ten to twenty minutes a day, depending on activity, listening to what it records and reviewing the logs (the logs catch freq, tone, time). Sure beats hours at a time in front of the radio as in the old days (1970s-1990s for me).

Do you run the ARC software during the day to catch these or do you monitor at the right time? Your always on top of the band openings As always, great logs and thanks for sharing!