486.2375

[sssummer]

I'm new to scanning (AND new to Delaware, relatively). I've searched the FCC data for this frequency but to no avail (I checked DE, PA, & MD). It's very active during all hours of the day and evening, and I began to suspect it had something to do with the hospital in Christiana when they began talking about exam rooms. I also picked up some conversations about a head cook, a leak in an exam room, and something about a woman in need of psychiatric help.

Is anyone familiar with this frequency? I'd love to know exactly what it is.

-Summer

 

[Audiodave1]

You can bet it is an image of a real frequency. Possibly around 464.5375 (your frequency minus the 21.7Mhz internal intermediate frequency of your scanner)

From the Grove scanner site:

Images are produced in every receiver. They are recognizable as a duplicate of the legitimate signal, typically offset by 21.4, 21.6, or 21.7 MHz (twice the intermediate frequency--I.F.) from the actual frequency, depending upon the scanner. With up-conversion design, image frequencies may fall outside the tuning range where they aren't a problem.