Norwich PD on Low Band

[Rt169Radio]

I have been hearing the Norwich PD off and on the past couple of days using their old freq of 33.900mhz, I get a clear signal and the audio quality doesn't sound like a patch over. Anyone know why they would be doing that?

 

[oilmillcharlie]

That is/was a low band fire frequency in S.E Ct. Do you mean 39.90??

 

[Rt169Radio]

That is/was a low band fire frequency in S.E Ct. Do you mean 39.90??

Yes & no, I did forget that they used 39.90 so your correct on that. But my scanner was picking them up on the QV ops freq of 33.900, I put another scanner on the same freq to double check and it was still coming through on that freq. A fire dept buddy of mine even confirmed he was picking them up on the same freq with one of his scanners.

 

[ecps92]

Dispatcher keyed up or cross patched the channel in error ?
IF you hear it all the time, more listening is needed, if it was a one-time event, then likely mouse error.

I have been hearing the Norwich PD off and on the past couple of days using their old freq of 33.900mhz, I get a clear signal and the audio quality doesn't sound like a patch over. Anyone know why they would be doing that?

 

[Thorndike113]

I know what you guys are talking about. Almost a couple decades ago now, I used to pick up Norwich Fire dispatch on 453.7875 which is/was the link going from the old KX dispatch to their base on Plain hill. Norwich, last I knew, was licensed to used 33.90. Why their 33.66 dispatch was coming over 33.90 is a mystery to me. There could be some link somewhere in there that is repeating that stuff from one base to another.

My question is, were you hearing the police dispatch on 33.90 or were you hearing them dispatching a fire department?

 

[mtfd515]

The reason you could hear the Norwich volunteers being dispatched on 33.90 was because a filter failed in the Plain Hill Tower and when Norwich transmitted, it bleed over onto the QV 33.90 radio. I will have to go back and play 33.90 to see if I hear the PD.

 

[Thorndike113]

The reason you could hear the Norwich volunteers being dispatched on 33.90 was because a filter failed in the Plain Hill Tower and when Norwich transmitted, it bleed over onto the QV 33.90 radio. I will have to go back and play 33.90 to see if I hear the PD.

AH, thats what I thought may have happened. It sounded like it may have been some sort of bleed over caused by something like that.

 

[mtfd515]

There was also a past incident where someone swapped cables on the tower to take a higher point on the tower to get better reception. They put the other cable on a lower antennea. that took sometime to realized why reception was poor.

 

[Rt169Radio]

I know what you guys are talking about. Almost a couple decades ago now, I used to pick up Norwich Fire dispatch on 453.7875 which is/was the link going from the old KX dispatch to their base on Plain hill. Norwich, last I knew, was licensed to used 33.90. Why their 33.66 dispatch was coming over 33.90 is a mystery to me. There could be some link somewhere in there that is repeating that stuff from one base to another.

My question is, were you hearing the police dispatch on 33.90 or were you hearing them dispatching a fire department?

I was hearing the PD on 33.90, now it wouldn't be much of a surpise to me if they were still on their old low band freq system. But last year they went to the CT state police system so I have no idea how they could transmit on the 800mhz band and end up on low band-on a different dispatch centers fire ops freq no less.

 

[Rt169Radio]

The reason you could hear the Norwich volunteers being dispatched on 33.90 was because a filter failed in the Plain Hill Tower and when Norwich transmitted, it bleed over onto the QV 33.90 radio. I will have to go back and play 33.90 to see if I hear the PD.

But last year the police dept went to the CT state police system so I have no idea how they could transmit on the 800mhz band and end up on low band-on a different dispatch centers fire ops freq no less.