DCNR 151.1750 New Usage

[captclint]

Tankers and Recons were working a fire near Lebanon, and hitting a repeater on 151.1750 241.8 PL They were communicating with Hazleton Tanker base some 60 miles north. The repeater is in lower Luzerne or Columbia based on RSSI.

Hazleton has used Air/Grd 159.285, Air/Air 151.4525 and Air East 151.3850, but never 151.175, and 241.8 is a new PL. The only other use for 241.8 is Air East(also in lower Luzerne). They kept referring to it as ARIES. It seemed to be more like a statewide name, and not a tower name like Arista. I remember seeing reference to ARIES somewhere, but can't find it now.

 

[Steveradio]

I will just have to dedicate a bank for DCNR old/new frequencies since we had that fire on the Blue Mountain in Lehigh/Carbon county and of course the same time we were getting slammed at work so could not listen/scan fully like would have. just curious did anyone catch any frequencies for that since noticed Lehigh County does not have a designated repeater?

 

[captclint]

since noticed Lehigh County does not have a designated repeater?

Lehigh appears to be District 17. The primary freq for D17 is 154.88250 simplex and 159.08250 is the Secondary simplex. However, to catch other usage, you should have the Tac's, Air/Grd 159.285, Air/Air 151.4525, Air East 151.3850, and 151.4450 Statewide. They might use Pt Clinton or Stover Repeaters.

 

[Steveradio]

When used be more active do recall using the Pt. Clinton Repeater often, dont think they talk as much when the parks such as Hickory Run etc were using the systems.

Beltzville Park and most of the others are using the 800 junk

 

[HM1529]

There are more repeaters in the pipeline right now. Nothing is approved, yet, but there is an app in the coordination phase right now. I guess they are still filling in gaps because of the narrowbanding.

 

[mattl3320]

I don't know if this had anything to do with this but the news said something about fort indian town gap forest crews working a back burn to help clear the area of over growth.