CT DOT

[loudjr]

1) does DOT still use the low band system ?

2) I don't hear the weather round up on CLMRN system or the low band system?

 

[cg]

1) yes, and CLMRN
2) was mentioned as not being heard a month or two back. I have heard it since then so possibly not done as consistently as before.

 

[Reconrider]

I'm probbaly wrong, but the voice they DOT uses on CLMRN, sounds analog or just bad radios, or bad radio use by operator.

 

[ecps92]

Yes they have and still use Low Band, one of our SNE members had 47.3000 146.2 the other day

1) does DOT still use the low band system ?

2) I don't hear the weather round up on CLMRN system or the low band system?

 

[keys]

1) does DOT still use the low band system ?

2) I don't hear the weather round up on CLMRN system or the low band system?

We usually do not broadcast roundup. E mail and apps. Low band in use primarily however CLMRS being deployed. Definitely a audio difference. I had my low band and Johnson CLMRS on District 1 and definitely a difference

 

[awasser1]

yes there was an open mike for like 20 min this pm. tied up my scanner LOL

 

[cg]

They are a mix of CLMRN radios and patched VHF Lo. If you are listening to the trunked system, the nice clear units already have the 7/800 radios. The ones that sound like crap are the low band radios being patched over. The signal is normal if you are listening on a low band radio.

chris

 

[awasser1]

Ah thanks. i do notice the difference

 

[Kitn1mcc]

you can hear it coming thrue. as someone who does radios and also plows using the low band between the trucks in a group does make it easier than tying up the system

 

[matt04]

They are a mix of CLMRN radios and patched VHF Lo. If you are listening to the trunked system, the nice clear units already have the 7/800 radios. The ones that sound like crap are the low band radios being patched over. The signal is normal if you are listening on a low band radio.

chris

Most of the larger plow trucks sound like they still have the VHF in my area and I have seen them with the VHF Lo antenna when I saw a few pull out of a local DOT yard. Most of the pickup trucks I have seen recently don't have the Lo Band antenna.

 

[Kitn1mcc]

listen to the low band and the 800 at the same time you can hear the delay between the two

 

[coolrich55]

Heard the weather round up for the first time today during this winter season. 47.30 and CLMRN. Brings back memories of when I would listen when I was a kid in school. Would try to predict if my school was cancelled lol.