OHP Frequencies

[poppafred]

I recently made a trip to Dallas to visit my daughters and grandaughters. I have a Pro-197 and used Win500 to program in all the OHP frequencies that RadioReference lists.

On my trip down on May 12th and my return home on June 2nd, I never heard a single OHP transmission.

Has there been a recent change in the radio system?

I will admit, I didn't program in the 44mHz frequencies because I was thinking they were probably outdated listings. Do they actually use that band?

I figured that now is the time to get it right before I make a return visit.

I appreciate any help you folks could offer.

 

[n5bew1]

Did you travel through McAlester or Durant. If you did the low band freqs are still used. Troop D in McAlester uses 45.22 HQ talk out. and Durant troop E uses 44.70 HQ talk out. The relays listed in the database for the appropriate areas of your travels will let you hear troopers in the field if you are in range. The trunked system is probably a long ways off for those rural areas. I hear a 45.22 relay from McAlester near the Wewoka/Seminole area for Seminole county some days here in Norman. It also helps to have a long antenna for low band to do it right.mobile.

 

[n5usr]

Even in the areas covered by the DPS trunking system, the troopers will use them quite a bit for "side conversations" and when coordinating with each other on a larger incident scene.

There are also areas where the 800MHz radios just can't reach, even though they are nominally in the coverage area, and the troopers will switch to lowband for those areas. Thus dispatch will also show up over there on occasion if they aren't raising someone on 800, and all BOLOs go out on both sometimes simultaneously.

 

[bsummers]

Ohp

I think most of the traffic in that area is going to be on the low band. They have used that for years. Even in the OKC metro area, I have heard traffic on there. Had a trooper tell me once that he could talk across the state on low band.

 

[xerb1962]

OHP low band is where it's at. Always have 44.7 and 45.22 turned on!

What n5bew1 says too. Get the right antenna!