Mt Lee Radio Site - Los Angeles

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- 1 hour video - URL might change when he reposts today - 41,000 views already

Action Kid hikes up to the Hollywood sign / Mt Lee radio tower

very rugged terrain - great views - very narrow streets - huge houses - 07:00 long stairs - 38:00 military Osprey flys over - 60:00 at Mt Lee comms site

the cellular connection never seemed to fail as he hiked up and live streamed

iirc LAFD has approx 8 comms sites and zero remote receivers for their 800 Mhz system

 

[es93546]

- 1 hour video - URL might change when he reposts today - 41,000 views already

Action Kid hikes up to the Hollywood sign / Mt Lee radio tower

very rugged terrain - great views - very narrow streets - huge houses - 07:00 long stairs - 38:00 military Osprey flys over - 60:00 at Mt Lee comms site

the cellular connection never seemed to fail as he hiked up and live streamed

iirc LAFD has approx 8 comms sites and zero remote receivers for their 800 Mhz system

I know the LAPD employs some remote receivers for their 480 MHz system. I recall reading somewhere that the LAFD had them as well. The repeater sites use these remote receive only sites with a voter, of course. When I've been in L.A. I've been able to hear tactical traffic for everything south of Mullholland Drive and I think all of the San Fernando Valley as well. I think Mt. Lee and Lukens are the main sites for the SF Valley. From my location in the Playa Del Rey area, along with a discone I used to put on the roof during my visits, I picked up a huge amount of radio traffic over a very wide area, from Banning Pass, the Ventura/Santa Barbara coast as well as the Cleveland NF. I could hear firefighters with breathing apparatus inside commercial buildings all over the San Fernando Valley, so I would think remote receivers were being used.

I've watched this video before, but had to fast forward through much of it, I just don't have time to devote to one hour plus videos. I remember as a high school senior my friends and I used to drive up to a major electronic site in the eastern Santa Monica Mtns. I think it was Mt. Lee, but it was a long time ago. I remember driving on a street that ended in a cul-de-sac, then picking an opening between a couple of houses that looked like a driveway and then ending up at the electronic site. The view was neat, if you like looking at city lights, where you could look at the San Fernando Valley and downtown L.A. and south to the Palos Verdes peninsula and harbor areas and then straight out to Santiago Peak. I moved away in the early 1970's and later was assigned to some fires on the Angeles and San Bernardino NF's, working night shift and not being able to see the hand in front of my face, while looking at most of the LA basin's city lights. Sometimes you could see fires on the Cleveland, the San Jacinto district of the San Bernardino, the rest of that forest, some fires on the Angeles and some west in the Santa Monica Mountains all from the same place. It was like the entire basin had fires on its rim. Taking a handheld scanner with you on fires, where you didn't have your own work vehicle, was a guarantee of destroying the scanner. Your luggage (red pack) and line gear got jostled around so much by hands other than your own that the scanner would be destroyed. They aren't made to be bullet proof like the King radios you are assigned. They take quite a likin and keep on ticking!