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Been a long time but yesterday heard Northville talking with a unknow Community on a BOL 155.3700
Before MPSCS id hear it from time to time
Before MPSCS id hear it from time to time
Been years since i've saw that frequency pop-up.Been a long time but yesterday heard Northville talking with a unknow Community on a BOL 155.3700
Before MPSCS id hear it from time to time
Pre-MPSCS that frequency was used a lot. We'd even pick up Indiana regularly, and sometimes northwest Ohio.
I haven't looked at licenses in a while, but I wonder if anyone in SW Michigan is even still on it. That and 155.865 MEPSS.
Calhoun ditched Point & MEPSS out of necessity around 2006, when we had to make room in the Centracom II consoles for MPSCS talkgroups. Something had to go, and those 2 frequencies were "expendable". As I recall though, nobody told MSP Operations about it, and we got a phone call and LEIN message from them wanting to know why we missed the weekly MEPSS test. I often wonder if the transceivers are still sitting in the huts at the tower sites. Our P2P transmitter cranked out something like 1kw with a 5db gain antenna at 110' feet AGL from a hill overlooking downtown Battle Creek. I always thought it would be fun on a boring night shift to "work some DX"! 😉...I'm fairly convinced nobody around us has any P2P or MEPSS capability anymore. My system has not had that capability since ~2015 or before.
Cops will tell you (and they're not wrong) that it's challenging at best to switch to "Statewide Whatever" or "G Event Something" when they're alone in the cruiser going down the highway at Warp 8. Under those conditions, they're lucky to remember what zone/channel "Statewide Whatever" is even located in. So it falls on dispatch to get the other departments on the horn somehow.I have it programmed in all my radios and I do catch traffic on it still. Not a lot, but I have heard a couple of recent chase coordination's with MSP and surround areas. And listing to one of them, it really kind of blew me away that for a long time now "interoperability" has been the buzz with the latest and greatest technology, but during the most recent traffic I monitored, it was still VHF legacy 155.37 and telephone calls to coordinate MSP, Monroe Co Sheriff and one of the local PD's in Monroe County going after a pretty violent offender...