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Are you talking about this thread on Nassau/Suffolk Fire and EMS Message Board?
Its funny, people have asked for the freq and what is their web address and all they say is their site is not up yet,nothing about a freq. The thread started Jan 11, 2007, 2:35pm and as of today there is still no answer on the freq.
Are you talking about this thread on Nassau/Suffolk Fire and EMS Message Board?
Its funny, people have asked for the freq and what is their web address and all they say is their site is not up yet,nothing about a freq. The thread started Jan 11, 2007, 2:35pm and as of today there is still no answer on the freq.
Its rather annoying that they *REQUIRE* MDC...
I realize that this thread is somewhat dated, however I was doing some reasearch on the group myself and I found this thread and felt that I should post what I've learned so far.
Robert Bambino, a Fire Marshall in Suffolk County is licensed for the WQEU308 repeaters. There are two repeaters, 478.9mhz and 477.85mhz in which are used, operated and maintained by Christopher Allen, a Brentwood Fire Fighter whom many of you might remember from the old Brentwood "Buff" repeater that was illegally retransmitting fire and police calls on GMRS. Christopher Allen was reported to the FCC by a local ham operator who was supposedly a radio tech where Allen was scalded by them and had to remove all of his radio transmitting equipment. THAT is why Bambino's name is on the Licenses. (Yes, there's more than one, actually, there's three in total; WQJN646 and WQJZ869 are the other two in question). Chris Allen is not allowed to license any repeaters.
Their website has been taken down. They are a for-profit "company"; "LIBNS". They charge $100/per year per user to have access to their system. It was up to the user to pay and provide their own radio, and Chris Allen would reprogram the radio with their repeaters in it, and then Password Protect the radio so the users cannot obtain the frequencies. (which is obviously easy to do either way) Since then, they took all their user's 100 dollars and ran with it after a year. They closed half of the users out of the system and went completely MotoTRBO, and it was all pre-meditated. They planned this the entire time.
Anyone ever think about how the heck these guys put up a repeater that gets Island wide coverage? The repeater gets portable coverage all the way past NYC. It's a teriffic setup. The fee's alone just to have the repeater at the site is about $2500/a month. Not to mention how they have numerous repeaters at numerous sites with numerous antennas and they are all patched into eachother with voting and everything else! And lets not forget the repeaters they had BEFORE they went MotoTRBO. It's because when these guys were working on fire departments' radio systems they'd put in some "upgraded" equipment and make the "old" equipment disappear. And as for the sites that the repeaters are at: They'd go in to the equipment room to "repair" the maintain the repeaters and "just slip alittle extra something" in to the rack and plug it in.
And there ya have it, the truth about LIBNS! Oh, btw, these guys are all vollies. on the system!
Robert Bambino, a Fire Marshall in Suffolk County is licensed for the WQEU308 repeaters. There are two repeaters, 478.9mhz and 477.85mhz in which are used, operated and maintained by Christopher Allen, a Brentwood Fire Fighter whom many of you might remember from the old Brentwood "Buff" repeater that was illegally retransmitting fire and police calls on GMRS. Christopher Allen was reported to the FCC by a local ham operator who was supposedly a radio tech where Allen was scalded by them and had to remove all of his radio transmitting equipment. THAT is why Bambino's name is on the Licenses. (Yes, there's more than one, actually, there's three in total; WQJN646 and WQJZ869 are the other two in question). Chris Allen is not allowed to license any repeaters.
Their website has been taken down. They are a for-profit "company"; "LIBNS". They charge $100/per year per user to have access to their system. It was up to the user to pay and provide their own radio, and Chris Allen would reprogram the radio with their repeaters in it, and then Password Protect the radio so the users cannot obtain the frequencies. (which is obviously easy to do either way) Since then, they took all their user's 100 dollars and ran with it after a year. They closed half of the users out of the system and went completely MotoTRBO, and it was all pre-meditated. They planned this the entire time.
Anyone ever think about how the heck these guys put up a repeater that gets Island wide coverage? The repeater gets portable coverage all the way past NYC. It's a teriffic setup. The fee's alone just to have the repeater at the site is about $2500/a month. Not to mention how they have numerous repeaters at numerous sites with numerous antennas and they are all patched into eachother with voting and everything else! And lets not forget the repeaters they had BEFORE they went MotoTRBO. It's because when these guys were working on fire departments' radio systems they'd put in some "upgraded" equipment and make the "old" equipment disappear. And as for the sites that the repeaters are at: They'd go in to the equipment room to "repair" the maintain the repeaters and "just slip alittle extra something" in to the rack and plug it in.
And there ya have it, the truth about LIBNS! Oh, btw, these guys are all vollies. on the system!
VERY interesting reading...
A response from either would be even more interesting.
A response from either would be even more interesting.
radioman2001
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Covering Long Island isn't that hard. With my one repeater at Alpine New Jersey I cover most of it out to the forks of Suffolk county. 2 repeaters on the best(highest) sites, Like North Shore Towers, with directional antenna's so as not to waste the transmitter energy to the water could easily be done. Most problems with repeaters is co-channel, while I havn't looked at their license, I would suspect that with a FB8 they could do it easily.
Now my comments are not about the personell, just their system. I also notice that this was you first post, so do you have a problem with these gentlemen?
Now my comments are not about the personell, just their system. I also notice that this was you first post, so do you have a problem with these gentlemen?
scannerman5555
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Robert Bambino, a Fire Marshall in the Islip town not suffolk county !
Chris Allen is on a ham radio freq now !
but I will not post it .......... on any web site ........
don
p.s. on a side note :
1 ch C.I. / Haupp Amb uses 1 of these freq too to disp to there members
the other 3 freq's nothing on them but a MotoTRBO sound on 1 freq !
Chris Allen is on a ham radio freq now !
but I will not post it .......... on any web site ........
don
p.s. on a side note :
1 ch C.I. / Haupp Amb uses 1 of these freq too to disp to there members
the other 3 freq's nothing on them but a MotoTRBO sound on 1 freq !
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Wow. Just Wow. Posts have been deleted and this thread is closed.
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