John, at the risk of sounding like I'm picking nits, the BWX facility is in northern Campbell County some 60 miles east of downtown Roanoke, in fact it's even east of Lynchburg. The exit for Mt Athos Road is off 460 east of Route 29. That puts it about 30 miles northeast of Altavista.
While the plant may have an elevated TX/RX antenna at/near their Campbell facility, are we sure about any connection (figuratively or otherwise) to Roanoke?
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BoxAlarm187:
I will attempt to heal you very simply from your recent nix picking attack
regarding the BWX temperature inversion incident. First what was the end purpose of my post? It was to research as best I could with the available internet resources, which also are available to you and other posters, except for my past monitoring experiences. From them I attempted to make a reasonable educated guess.
My end purpose was not was a forensic site survey and analysis of BWX's transmitter/receiver site and location.
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From my past travel experiences on Rt. 460 to and from the Bristol area, my home area, I did not have the time luxury of noting much geographic details about the Mt. Athos road's exact location in Lynchburg. I remembered the exit was near the top of the hill traveling west and beginning of the Lynchburg bypass and mentioned it only as a point of reference. My main concern at the time was attempting to avoid a traffic accident by one or more
idiots doing
Daytona 500 like frequent lane changes charging up the hilly road to the Lynchburg bypass
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Regarding sentence four: Everyone has his own way of doing things.
As for me, part of my research routine efforts include doing a FCC Menu Reports search. For this situation, the BWX license is for a three frequency trs. I made a note of the repeater frequencies and did a frequency search for "452.2750 mhz". for all licensees in VA. Next I sight checked any obvious commercial site LTR provider(s) using that same frequency. In this case, the only possible site provider in the general area was Professional Communications, Blacksburg, VA with their antenna site located on Poor Mountain.
I next sight checked the frequencies.
452.2750 mhz. = YES; 452.4375 mhz.= NO and
452.9875 mhz.=NO. STOP! RED LIGHT ALERT!!! A LTR operator has to provide all three BWX trunked frequencies and this LTR provider did not. Conclusion: BWX was not a trs user on this LTR system and there are no other LTR providers listed for all three frequencies. My conclusion was BWX is a standalone trs.
END OF SEARCH!
In conclusion, if you had taken the time to do the same BWX frequencies check as I did, I'm sure quickly you would have concluded the same thing
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The difference was
I did the BWX frequencies used check and
you did not do the BWX frequencies used check.
BoxAlarm 187, no harm intended, but you can see now how simple it was to heal your nix pix attack.
. The reason I remembered to do this frequencies check every time for such a situation(s) was because in the past I also had forgotten
to do it and on future occasions was reminded of my past oversight. I've been there and done that. It's all just part of a learning experience.
If you want to read about mistakes, browse some of my past posts on various DMR tier installations.
John
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