2019 VHF Low Band Logs

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger from 7-6-19 to 7-21-19. (Part Two)

32.325 PL 150.0 A-A
32.475 PL 150.0 airfield
32.500 PL 150.0 Outlaw Ops
32.650 PL 150.0 Helos
32.700 PL 150.0 Helos
32.750 PL 150.0 Medevac
32.900 PL 150.0 convoy
33.400 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
33.950 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
34.000 PL 150.0 Ft. Dix NJ
34.025 PL 150.0 Unk Range Control
34.100 PL 150.0 Spartan Ops VA
34.200 PL 150.0 RC Camp Bullis
34.300 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
34.500 PL 150.0 Ft. Sill
34.700 PL 150.0 Camp LeJune
34.750 PL 150.0 Helos
34.825 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
34.900 PL 150.0 Ft. Campbell
34.950 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
34.950 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
35.000 PL 150.0 TXNG
35.500 PL 150.0 MS ?
36.000 PL 150.0 Camp Bullis Tx

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger from 7-6-19 to 7-21-19. (Part Three)

36.100 PL 150.0 Ft. Pickett
36.350 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
36.475 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
36.500 PL 150.0 Ft. Carson
36.525 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
36.600 PL 150.0 A 10s
36.700 PL 150.0 IANG
36.850 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
37.050 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
37.100 PL 150.0 ?
37.500 PL 150.0 Medevac
38.025 PL 150.0 ??NG
38.100 PL 150.0
38.150 PL 150.0 GANG
38.300 PL 150.0
38.350 PL 150.0 Ft. Carson
38.500 PL 150.0 Ft. Carson
38.900 PL 150.0 Ft. Knox
40.000 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
40.100 PL 150.0 OHNG
40.200 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
40.500 PL 150.0 Guard

 

[marvinsuggs]

Quiet

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger

38.900 PL 150.0 Helos, possibly National Guard Drop Zone Training Exercise
49.950 PL 150.0 A-10's
51.500 PL 150.0 .Mil Helos in 6 Meter band in Louisville Ky area ​

 

[kkn50]

Logs: Recent
San Antonio, Texas
Uniden BCD996XT scanner with 10 meter dipole antenna

25.0000 AM WWV Ft Collins CO
26.6350 AM ROS
30.5250 150.0 US MIL "Eyeball Eyeball, Owl, how copy, over"
33.8200 141.3 KCO372 FD/EMS - Calvert County MD
34.0500 150.0 US MIL - Helos
36.8000 150.0 US MIL - Helos, Texas
36.9000 150.0 US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
37.7000 150.0 US MIL
39.2200 192.8 KMA801 CA HP
39.3600 162.2 WPPD852 CA HP
39.6800 118.8 KDG272 CA HP
39.7200 162.2 WPPC737 CA HP
39.8000 162.2 WPHM449 CA HP
39.8600 173.8 WPYP239 Freeway Service Patrol, Orange County Transportation Authority, CA
39.8800 118.8 KMD453 CA HP
40.6700 CSQ SNOTEL
42.5600 118.8 KMH962 CA HP
43.8800 146.2 Dump trucks
44.5800 CSQ BNSF Hy-Rail Limits Compliance System (Packets)
44.6200 186.2 KMB443 CA HP
45.0200 192.8 KCQ240 CA HP
45.5000 192.8 WQA721 CA HP
48.3200 141.3 WNJT255 Morse ID. FELHC, Inc. Snowshoe substation top of mtn, Snowshoe, WV
49.5800 179.9 Unidentified US business - possible oil field related

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger on 8-9-19​

32.200 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
32.450 PL 150.0 NCNG

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger on 8-15-19

40.950 PL 150.0 Wendel H Ford Training Center ​

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger from 8-16 to 8-25

32.200 PL 150.0 Unk US.mil
32.050 PL 150.0 Misery Base
32.850 PL 150.0 TNNG
46.750 PL 150.0 Ft. Bragg
46.900 PL 150.0 TNNG

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger on 8-28-19

41.700 PL 150.0 US.mil Helo, unk location

 

[mancow]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger on 8-28-19

41.700 PL 150.0 US.mil Helo, unk location

For a long time that was Kansas guard helos but in the last couple years they seemed to switch to 32.1.

I did see one go over about 3pm central time yesterday so maybe they are still using it.

 

[kkn50]

Logs: Recent
San Antonio, Texas
Uniden BCD996XT scanner with 10 meter dipole antenna

FREQ......SQ......DESCRIPTION
31.8000 151.4 Farmers - "setting that corn up", last heard in 2011
34.2000 150.0 US MIL - Range Control, Camp Bullis TX
35.8600 103.5 "Get up close to that fence and Jerry Wayne can bring that one and put it over here by it too and it'll be out of the way of this pile."
36.9000 150.0 US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
38.3500 150.0 US MIL - Butts AAF, Ft Carson, CO
39.3400 162.2 WPHM449 CA HP
39.3600 162.2 WPPD852 CA HP
39.6800 118.8 KDG272 CA HP
39.7200 162.2 WPPC737 CA HP
39.8800 118.8 KMD453 CA HP
42.1200 118.8 KMH995 CA HP
43.2800 77.0 Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
43.7000 D156 San Antonio - electrical contractors

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger from 8-29-19 to 9-4-19

32.250 PL 150.0 MING
38.900 PL 150.0 Range Control
42.250 PL 150.0 Helo "On Forty TwoTwo Fifty"

 

[Dispatrick]

It's been pretty quiet but finally got some noteworthy hits yesterday. These are all stations I pick up regularly but it's the first time I've heard most of them in a month! What's causing the poor conditions?

9-7-2019 between 17:15 and 18:15 EDT

Alabama DOC 45.980 203.5

MO HP TROOP D 42.060 203.5

MO HP TROOP G 42.380 173.8

 

[trashman43]

Monitored from Central Ky using a Pro 197, Win500 and a 6 meter Ringo Ranger from 9-4-19 to 9-7-19​

.Mil

30.450 PL 150.0 Ft Hood RC
32.175 PL 150.0 Helo
36.800 PL 150.0 "Were a 2 ship formation"
40.175 PL 150.0 ?

Business​

48.660 PL 136.5 Tenn. Gas Pipeline

 

[217]

It's been pretty quiet but finally got some noteworthy hits yesterday. These are all stations I pick up regularly but it's the first time I've heard most of them in a month! What's causing the poor conditions?

9-7-2019 between 17:15 and 18:15 EDT

Alabama DOC 45.980 203.5

MO HP TROOP D 42.060 203.5

MO HP TROOP G 42.380 173.8

Sporadic E peaks predictably in the summertime and the peak is most noticeable in mid June, trailing off through late July and into early August. Although I have had some small spurts this month including today. It also can happen whenever sporadically. kkn50's logs prove that fact.

 

[kkn50]

As 217 wrote, we're out of the peak E-Skip season until probably December. Sporadic openings, but not much. Sunspots are low, F-Skip is not there for VHF Low Band. I'm not hearing much other than locals. I monitor FT8 on ten and six meters - not much there either.

What's causing the poor conditions?

 

[kkn50]

Recent Logs
San Antonio, Texas
Uniden BCD996XT scanner with 10 meter dipole antenna

Very little activity.

FREQ......SQ......DESCRIPTION
32.1800 77.0 Taxi, Alajuela, Costa Rica - on 9/4/19 16:49-17:41z then QSB
32.7500 150.0 US MIL - Medevac training "one patient, critical" - helos air to air, air to ground
34.2000 150.0 US MIL - Range Control, Camp Bullis TX
36.9000 150.0 US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
43.5200 77.0 Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
43.7000 D156 San Antonio - electrical contractors

 

[kkn50]

Check here for FT8 openings on ten and six meters. I rarely hear anything on VHF Low Band if those two bands are dead.

Digimode Automatic Propagation Reporter

It's been pretty quiet but finally got some noteworthy hits yesterday. What's causing the poor conditions?

 

[KF4ZTO]

Noting C.W. Wright Construction- license KRT982 - CB-like truck to truck traffic on 30.580 MHz CSQ - none of my radios are decoding either a PL or DPL. So in addition to the other CTCSS tones they’ve been logged with. They’re local to me on a job site, presumably this is their talk-around or general chat channel in their radios. 30.580 CSQ 30.580 no tone

 

[W8UU]

Noting C.W. Wright Construction- license KRT982 - CB-like truck to truck traffic on 30.580 MHz CSQ - none of my radios are decoding either a PL or DPL. So in addition to the other CTCSS tones they’ve been logged with. They’re local to me on a job site, presumably this is their talk-around or general chat channel in their radios. 30.580 CSQ 30.580 no tone

I've found carrier squelch operation to be fairly common on low band channels, especially legacy systems like KRT982 (that's an old school callsign, for sure!). I'm guessing that, in the early days, PL was an add-on product that increased the cost of each radio and wasn't a programmable option like it is now. So you ordered a bare-bones one or two channel 100 watt Mocom 70 or GE Executive II mobile radio, crystalled to your channel, and added a whip antenna and you were good to go. You'd think that adding PL or DPL (at some point) would be important to low band users because those frequencies are the most prone to skip interference.