Walker County SHSU Foot Patrol

[JonL008]

I have the Pro-106 and I program the Sam Houston State University Foot Patrol frequency (155.55000) into my scanner and the PL Tone (107.2), however, doing this hardly lets me hear them. Every now and then i will hear them but they will have high static and be very hard to understand ( I am not 2 miles from the school or PD). Most of the time I hear some other county department talking on it even though I entered the PL tone. It does say that the SHSU Foot Patrol is VHF, is my scanner not able to pick this up well or is there something im not doing to be able to receive them well. I have even tried not using a tone and I still get the same thing.

Any one have any suggestions?

Thanks,

JonL

 

[mfn002]

I've noticed the same thing. I don't think they use it very much because of the interference on the repeater input frequency. I don't know what county is doing this, but it sounds like a fire channel, and I once heard a dispatcher mention that a call was "in Porter's territory". Bryan PD used to have a similar problem with their secondary channel when they were still VHF. In that case, it was a remote input for Burnet County SO that was interefering with the input frequency. As far as I could tell, they never fixed it.

 

[rattlerbb01]

I've noticed the same thing. I don't think they use it very much because of the interference on the repeater input frequency. I don't know what county is doing this, but it sounds like a fire channel, and I once heard a dispatcher mention that a call was "in Porter's territory". Bryan PD used to have a similar problem with their secondary channel when they were still VHF. In that case, it was a remote input for Burnet County SO that was interefering with the input frequency. As far as I could tell, they never fixed it.

That's an easy one to figure out. A fire channel talking about "Porter's territory" would more than likely be neighboring Montgomery County, and the Porter VFD that they are referring to. Now the input to SHSU's old VHF repeater is 158.805, and the PL tone is 107.2. That is sandwiched exactly 15 KHz between County Fire 1 (158.820 PL 107.2) and County Fire 2 (158.790 PL 107.2). They have multiple transmitters for each fire channel spread around MoCo, so this is probably what is ripping SHSU's VHF channel a new one. Now since it didn't happen in the past, that leads me to believe 158.790, County 2, is the culprit, since it is a pretty new frequency, replacing the old County 2 158.895.

 

[mfn002]

Thanks, rattler. That makes sense. Don't you think that Montgomery County would have checked that first before getting the FCC license?

 

[rattlerbb01]

Thanks, rattler. That makes sense. Don't you think that Montgomery County would have checked that first before getting the FCC license?

No