2021 VHF Low Band Logs

[empireco]

Just got about 15 minutes of multiple transmissions on
41.5 150Hz Base working multiple UH60's!!! "Clear to land runway One Three" Fort Carson in Colorado has a runway 13 and ADSB shows multiple UH60's working the area! Also getting SNOTEL on 40.670!!!
What a night!

 

[K5TXC]

Hearing 40.670 - SNOTEL in Fort Worth, TX this morning.

 

[Kitn1mcc]

do they make a SNOTEL decoder

 

[tyytor]

do they make a SNOTEL decoder

Hi yes they do but is high $$$, it is better to Google it and go to the web site that shows the information, they show the actual transmitter site information, grafts and various locations being received.

 

[kkn50]

Logs for 2021/05/24 - 2021/05/29
Childersburg, Alabama
Uniden SDS200 with ST2 Antenna

FREQ	SQ	CALL	DESCRIPTION
25.0000	AM	WWV	Ft Collins CO
33.4400	179.9	KCD346	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Tolland County CT
33.4600	114.8		Fire dispatch - Provincetown MA (voice ID)
33.4800	179.9		Fire Dispatch - Tolland CT
33.5600	D251		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Unidentified
33.6400	131.8		Fire Dispatch - Spencer, MA
33.6600	114.8	KCD566	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Truro MA
33.6600	179.9	KCB979	Fire Dispatch - Norwich CT
33.7600	179.9		Fire Tac - Possible Windham Co, CT
33.7800	77.0	KCF415	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Cheshire Co NH
33.7800	114.8	KNGE459	EMS Dispatch - Falmouth MA
33.8800	179.9		EMS Dispatch - Possible New London county or Windham county CT
33.9600	179.9	WQF238	Fire Dispatch - Lyme/Old Lyme, CT w/ callsign voice ID
35.0800	82.5		Unidentified US business - "go ahead and start throwing it through the street"
35.6800	CSQ		Digital paging
35.8400	192.8		Possible Bonded Concrete, West Sand Lake, Rensselaer Co NY
37.0200	146.2		Police Dispatch - West Milford NJ
37.1000	162.2	KET358	Morgantown Utility Board WV
37.4600	CSQ	KWG479	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.4600	CSQ	KXD499	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.5800	CSQ	KGC284	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.5800	CSQ	KGA859	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.6000	CSQ	KGA860	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.6200	CSQ	KGA862	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.6600	CSQ	KGA857	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.6600	CSQ	KQX988	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.7000	CSQ	KQZ249	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.7400	CSQ	KGA863	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.8200	CSQ	KVA725	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.8600	CSQ	KGE748	PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, PA w/ Morse ID
37.9800	110.9		EMS Dispatch
39.1800	107.2		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Possible Oakham MA
39.6000	146.2		EMS Dispatch - Paramus Municipalities NJ
39.6400	114.8	KNGB789	Police Dispatch - Benardsville NJ
39.7800	100.0		Police Dispatch - Uxbridge MA
39.8600	162.2		Police Dispatch - Possible Northbridge MA
39.9600	100.0	WAWD749	Fire Dispatch - Frontier Co, NE "attention Curtis Fire Department, we need spotters for the approaching storm"
40.6700	CSQ		SNOTEL
41.5000	150.0		US MIL - Airfield "you'll be number two to the runway"
42.0600	192.8		WV HP - Martinsburg / Charles Town Dispatch (paired with 45.78)
43.2800	77.0		Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
43.5200	77.0		Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
45.4800	131.8	KNJB860	Area Rural Transportation System - Cullman AL
45.6200	162.2		Fire - Likely Mamaroneck NY
46.0400	141.3		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Possible Middlesex Co CT
46.0600	97.4		Fire Dispatch - Cumberland County PA
46.0600	167.9		Fire Dispatch - Possible Westchester County NY
46.0600	141.3		Fire Dispatch - New Haven County CT, Guilford Control 1, Madison Control 2
46.0800	114.8		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Possible Geauga county OH
46.1000	100.0	KEG503	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Jericho Fire District, Jericho NY
46.1000	D754		Fire Dispatch - Wilbraham MA
46.1000	88.5		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Unidentified
46.1200	167.9		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Dunkirk NY
46.1400	167.9		Fire Dispatch - Possible Chautauqua Co NY
46.1800	141.3		Fire Dispatch - Middlesex Co CT, Valley Shore (Big Gun WQF238), Control 3 (Old Saybrook), Control 9 (Clinton), Middletown Control, Cromwell Dispatch
46.1800	186.2		Fire Dispatch - Possible Adams Co PA
46.2200	123.0		Unidentified - low audio
46.2400	151.4		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Danbury CT
46.3800	123.0		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Putnam Co NY
46.4600	CSQ	KCT272	Fire/EMS Dispatch - County of Baltimore, MD
46.4600	114.8		Fire Response - Ulster Co NY
46.5000	141.3		Fire Dispatch - Possible Yonkers NY
46.5600	D343		Fire/EMS Dispatch - Unidentified
48.4000	CSQ		Electrical Utility - Unidentified
48.4600	CSQ	A941	Partial Morse ID "A941" - not in FCC database
49.1000	CSQ		Ringing tone
49.1400	151.4		Fire Dispatch - Ridgefield CT
49.5000	67.0		Pike Electric Ch 13 <nationwide contractors>

 

[217]

Two notables today on low band VHF. Canada's Ministry Resources and Forestry and Lancaster county PA. Bird Dog working with tanker 273 on the forest fires in Ontario, Canada.

Bird Dog

Lancaster county PA 33.9MHz

 

[kkn50]

Logs for 2021/05/22 - 2021/05/30
San Antonio TX
Uniden 996XT with ten meter dipole

FREQ	SQ	CALL	DESCRIPTION
34.2000	150.0		US MIL - Range Control, Camp Bullis TX
35.9800	94.8		Dump trucks "hurry back, they waiting on you"
36.9000	150.0		US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
39.2200	192.8	KMA801	CA HP
39.2600	118.8	KVV806	CA HP - Input is 42.740
39.3400	162.2	WPHM449	CA HP
39.4000	186.2	KTN273	CA HP
39.4400	146.2	WPPY951	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
41.9500	150.0		US MIL "BEARMAT" - Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms CA
42.1000	203.5		MO HP - "Springfield"
42.4400	146.2		CA HP
42.4400	179.9	KUV545	CA HP
42.5600	118.8	KMH962	CA HP
42.9200	162.2		CA HP
43.2800	77.0		Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
43.4400	77.0	WNCG835	Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX <very active - a good indicator freq for band openings to south Texas from your location>
43.5200	77.0		Ingram Readymix, San Antonio TX
44.6200	186.2		CA HP
44.7400	186.2		CA HP
45.0200	192.8	KCQ240	CA HP
45.4200	136.5		CA HP
45.5000	192.8	WQA721	CA HP
45.7000	136.5	KMH277	CA HP
48.3600	110.9	KNFC210	Los Angeles, Dept of Water & Power w/ Morse ID
49.4800	67.0		Pike Electric Ch 12 <nationwide contractors>
49.5400	67.0		Pike Electric Ch 2 <nationwide contractors>

 

[Dispatrick]

Picking up on 75.5000 and 75.7600 some sort of data transmissions. Signals are distant but can't figure out what they are.

EDIT: it's AFSK if that helps to identify.

 

[Kitn1mcc]

Hi yes they do but is high $$$, it is better to Google it and go to the web site that shows the information, they show the actual transmitter site information, grafts and various locations being received.

oh ok i will take a look

 

[Kitn1mcc]

46.04 is only being used by the town of Essex

 

[tyytor]

Picking up on 75.5000 and 75.7600 some sort of data transmissions. Signals are distant but can't figure out what they are.

EDIT: it's AFSK if that helps to identify.

Hi could be power company data link or remote monitoring or switching?
Fcc frequency search revealed a few on those 2 frequencies do any cw I'd?

 

[chrismol1]

Picking up on 75.5000 and 75.7600 some sort of data transmissions. Signals are distant but can't figure out what they are.

EDIT: it's AFSK if that helps to identify.

There's a few 75 MHz paging still licensed out there

 

[marvinsuggs]

May 2021 Richmond,TX Bearcat BCT8 scanner Sirio GPA 27-45 MHz ground plane antenna.

33.86 Washington Co, MD FD
33.88 Licking Co, OH FD
33.90 Noble Co, OH FD
33.92 W Licking Joint Fire Dist, OH
33.98 Perry Co, OH FD
35.36 Paragon Readymix, Utica,MI
34.90 Fort Hood, TX
37.72 Sumter Electric, Sumterville ,FL
45.98 Alabama DOC/ Athens

 

[mancow]

Yesterday, 37.6 National Grid net with multiple locations checking in.

 

[kkn50]

Logs for 2021/05/31 - 2021/06/03
San Antonio TX
Uniden 996XT with ten meter dipole

FREQ	SQ	CALL	DESCRIPTION
31.6400	118.8		Dump Trucks
32.1500	150.0		US MIL - Helos
35.4400	131.8		Troy Ready-Mix, Troy MO
36.9000	150.0		US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
39.4400	146.2	WPPY951	CA HP
39.9800	88.5	KGL481	EMS Dispatch - Greene Co NC
40.8250	150.0		US MIL
42.1200	118.8	KMH995	CA HP
42.1250	150.0		US MIL - "CHAOS MAIN" "CHAOS ONE". Field medic training. Numerous nine line reports and graphic casualty reports from inbound medevac helos - too realistic for me, I had to stop listening.
42.4400	179.9	KUV545	CA HP
42.5600	118.8	KMH962	CA HP
43.0400	107.2		Itinerant frequency - truck to truck
44.6200	186.2		CA HP
48.3600	110.9	KNFC210	Los Angeles, Dept of Water & Power w/ Morse ID
48.3600	110.9	KNFC215	Los Angeles, Dept of Water & Power w/ Morse ID

 

[217]

KCB781 Barnstable county Massachusetts with the morning roll call today. 33.700Mhz.
Received in North Carolina on a Uniden BC75xlt with 33.420MHz dipole.



Roll call KCB781

 

[217]

6/5/21 Received in North Carolina on a Uniden BC75xlt with 33.420MHz dipole.

Quinebaugh valley dispatch, Colchester, New London County, CT
WNHR373 Waterford dispatch, Jordan and Oswegatchie, New London County, CT
KCE526 Bethlehem Vol Fire, Litchfield County, CT
Quinebaugh valley dispatch, Plainfield fire dept, Windham County, CT
KCF415
60-Control dispatch, Westchester County, NY
Lancaster Co dispatch, PA
KCF 415
60-Control dispatch, Westchester County, NY
Trumbull center, Fairfield county, CT
Truro fire, Barnstable County, MA
Lancaster Co dispatch, PA
60-Control dispatch, Westchester County, NY
Provincetown fire, Barnstable co, MA
KCF415
60-Control dispatch, Westchester County, NY
Lancaster Co dispatch, PA
KCF415
Barnstable co, MA
WQCI243, Suffolk co, NY

VHF low skip

 

[kkn50]

Logs for 2021/06/04 - 2021/06/06
San Antonio TX
Uniden 996XT with ten meter dipole

FREQ	SQ	CALL	DESCRIPTION
25.0000	AM	WWV	Ft Collins CO
36.7500	150.0		US MIL - Helos
36.9000	150.0		US MIL - Martindale Army Heliport Ops, San Antonio TX
39.2200	192.8	KMA801	CA HP
39.3400	162.2	WPHM449	CA HP
39.4000	186.2	KTN273	CA HP
39.7200	162.2	WPPC737	CA HP
40.6700	CSQ		SNOTEL
41.2500	150.0		US MIL - Range Control
42.1200	203.5		MO HP "Vehicle fire, I-44"
43.0000	151.4		Farmers
44.5800	CSQ		BNSF Hy-Rail Limits Compliance System (Packets)
44.6200	186.2		CA HP
44.9400	186.2		CA HP
45.0200	192.8	KCQ240	CA HP
47.0800	D073		Repeater, carrier, roger beep, no audio. Possible FL DOT

 

[Scanning-NWA]

6/11/21 Received in Northwest Arkansas on a Uniden BCT15X with Comet Triband 2M,6M,70CM Base Antenna/Diamond MX-2000 Triplexor.

Skip, so far this year's season, has been sporadic and only momentary until this day I came home from work to the best skip day so far for me:
40.67 CSQ SNOTEL
29.60 FM Simplex
29.62 FM KQ2H Manhattan, NY Repeater
52.525 FM Simplex
48.70 US Military Range Control
46.75 US Military Fort Bragg Range Control
43.24 151.4 Unknown PD
45.80 173.8 Jefferson, NJ PD
39.78 100.0 Uxbridge, MA PD
39.72 100.0 WPJP401 Giles County, VA
37.02 146.2 West Milford, NJ PD
48.9 CW ID Unknown
46.48 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - North Bay Fire Mgt. Area
46.62 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Bancroft MNRF District
46.78 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Fireground
46.84 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Parks - Earl Roe
47.76 118.8 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Parks - Arrowhead

P.S. - Special message for 217 - I love your "In Search Of Exceptional Sporadic E Conditions" banner. That's me also! I used to have a Realistic PRO-77 scanner. It was my very first scanner and entrance into the hobby. Back then, there was lots of great skip that came in on even a back of scanner telescoping indoor antenna. I ordered lots of crystals from Radio Shack for my PRO-77 (wish I still had it). Not many Radio Shack stores left now.
All the great skip logs in this forum, past years internet research and scanning, have been a great help to getting my Uniden BCT15X (committed to the search of VHF LOW BAND Skip and local Missouri/Oklahoma Highway Patrol) programmed for this task.

 

[kkn50]

Do you have any other frequencies for Canada Ministry Natural Resources ?

46.48 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - North Bay Fire Mgt. Area
46.62 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Bancroft MNRF District
46.78 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Fireground
46.84 110.9 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Parks - Earl Roe
47.76 118.8 Ontario, Canada Ministry Natural Resources - Parks - Arrowhead