156.180 Hendricks County Fire

[W9NES]

Just found Hendricks Co. Fire on my Bearcat 300 using 156.180 on Sat 5-9-08.Heard Plainfield Fire making a dispatch.Could this freq please be added to the database for Hendricks County,Thank You.

 

[jerk]

Just found Hendricks Co. Fire on my Bearcat 300 using 156.180 on Sat 5-9-08.Heard Plainfield Fire making a dispatch.Could this freq please be added to the database for Hendricks County,Thank You.

You can submit it... then the database will be updated,
However the FCC site show this as an input or mobile frequency.
Callsign: KWU260

 

[W9NES]

Newsalan,It is being used as a Simucast freq. as I did hear the dispatch today around 11AM. It is Hendricks County Fire and all I am hearing is the dispatch.My guess it is being used for paging only.Thanks for your input.

 

[AK9R]

156.180 is an old Plainfield Fire frequency that has been used for fire station tone-out and dispatch ever since Hendricks County went on SAFE-T. It is used the same as 154.130.

The 156.180 transmitter is in Plainfield while the 154.130 transmitter is in Danville. The 154.130 transmitter is more centrally located and runs more power. However, the problem with 154.130 in this area is that Brown County Fire has a repeater with the output on that frequency. The Brown County transmitter is on the big hill in Brown County State Park and you can easily hear it in Hendricks County. I guess Plainfield was worried that if the Brown County Fire repeater was transmitting at the same time a dispatch came out for Hendricks County, the Brown County repeater would win the RF battle, so Plainfield uses 156.180 instead.

 

[W9NES]

Thanks BOB W9RXR.Thanks for setting the record straight on this.Best Requards,Tim DeLong W9NES

 

[AK9R]

I believe 156.180 is the input to the Plainfield Fire Department repeater that's on 154.160.

You can hear the initial fire/EMS dispatches on 154.130, 154.160, and 156.180. 154.130 carries the alert tones for the pagers while the other frequencies do not.