170.300 Public Safety Logged???

[R7000]

Group,

I'm in Lafayette and am hearing some public safety/emergency calls on 170.3. I think it is north of me, no Cajun accents. The PL is 82.5 if I remember right.

Anyone??
Tom

 

[rcvmo]

You're probably picking up an image of a channel in the 159 MHz range.

170.3-10.7= 159.6

170.3-11.155=159.145

170.3-21.4=148.9
Does any of the subtraction results look close to any local channels?
rcvmo

 

[R7000]

I suppose that is possible, but I've heard it on both a 780xlt and Icom R7000 at home, and BR330T while driving near Alexandria.

I'd like to get someone in Cenla to try 170.3.

Thanks
Tom

 

[KC0QNB]

I believe 170 range is Fed, my guess is an image also.

 

[ChrisP]

FWIW 170.3 MHz is not even allocated for voice. It's a narrowband data channel for federal/non-federal hydrological data. There are a number of these narrow band channels in this area of the band.

There's also a wireless microphone allocation at 170.3050 MHz. I wonder if someone is using that for some sort of low-power monitor or repeater. I've seen that before...

- Chris