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What a great night for listening to the Bell Fleetnet TRS down here in Michigan. I have the following sites at S-9+ right now

  • Bissett Creek
  • Penetang
  • South River
  • Whitby
73s

Ron
 

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I doubt you'd be getting Bisset Creek, that's up in my neck of the woods and we don't even get that here.

I'd be double checking over the database on the control channels that your hearing, perhaps your actually hearing Zone 1 and not Zone 2 Fleetnet

Bell Fleetnet - Ontario Provincial Government Zone 1 Trunking System, Southwest Zone, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies - Zone 1
Bell Fleetnet - Ontario Provincial Government Zone 2 Trunking System, Southeast Zone, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies - Zone 2
Bell Fleetnet - Ontario Provincial Government Zone 3 Trunking System, Northeast Zone, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies - Zone 3
Bell Fleetnet - Ontario Provincial Government Zone 4 Trunking System, Northwest Zone, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies - Zone 4


What a great night for listening to the Bell Fleetnet TRS down here in Michigan. I have the following sites at S-9+ right now

  • Bissett Creek
  • Penetang
  • South River
  • Whitby
73s

Ron
 

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If this is the case, then Ron is most likely hearing:

Wardsville, Goderich, Listowel and Stratford which would be in the same region.

What would confirm are the OPS channels for OPP, 1OPS01 to 1OPS15.
 

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What a great night for listening to the Bell Fleetnet TRS down here in Michigan. I have the following sites at S-9+ right now

  • Bissett Creek
  • Penetang
  • South River
  • Whitby
73s

Ron

Can you make out which OPP units you are hearing? They should begin with 6 i.e. 6 Oscar or 6 Echo, etc.
 

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How I found the sites I was hearing, was with the help of a nearby friend who was running UniTrunker. It was just amazing trying to listen to the Bell Fleetnet system. Sometimes there were up to 4 towers on one frequency. Conversely, there are a few confirmed reports that the Alabama State Highway Patrol, was received in southwest Michigan, and southern Wisconsin on 154.920 and 158.790 MHz. Now that is what I call some long-haul skip on VHF-High band.

73s

Ron
 
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Keep in mind, that the 4 zones share control channels. Just because you pick up a site on one frequency, doesn't mean it isn't a site from another zone.

Scrap unitrunker, and go with Trunk88. It tells you the System ID and the Site ID, which you can then check on RR to know exactly what site you're picking up.

T88 will also work with a MUCH crapier signal than Unitrunker, so you'll be able to decode those far off sites much better.
 

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Keep in mind, that the 4 zones share control channels. Just because you pick up a site on one frequency, doesn't mean it isn't a site from another zone.

Scrap unitrunker, and go with Trunk88. It tells you the System ID and the Site ID, which you can then check on RR to know exactly what site you're picking up.

T88 will also work with a MUCH crapier signal than Unitrunker, so you'll be able to decode those far off sites much better.

Then in that case, I'll go with what I said in post #4
 
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