2025 VHF Low Band Logs

[sprman1955]

Todays logs:
31.320 csq French polytones loud
31.750 UK POCSAG very loud here
35.640 pl 110.9 French heard
30.00 pl 151.4 Mil Coms
35.550 pl 123.0 tones and beeps
35.810 pl 127.3 beeps heard
35.490 pl 136.5 French heard
35.740 pl 123.0 beeps heard
35.660 pl 110.9 beeps
36.010 pl 127.3 beeps
35.850 pl 110.9 beeps
35.910 pl 110.9 French heard
35.310 pl 110.9 beeps
32.940 pl 141.3 Spanish taxi dispatch Costa Rica
36.050 pl 110.9 French heard
35.790 pl 136.5 French heard
25.00 AM WWV heard with time pips S-10 here
Band open here nice and quite Angelo

 

[sprman1955]

Some very impressive loggings in recent days from all of you! I am hearing nothing here in NJ, beyond 10M AM & FM simplex / repeaters and local VHF fire paging above 30 MHz. Part of the problem is the very high noise floor I have locally.

I know my antennas are fine, an attic 27MHz groundplaneand an outdoor sloper - I have heard DX with these antennas before. The attic groundplane brought in plenty of VHF low DX going back to Cycle 22. Receivers are mainly a BCT-15X and a Bearcat 210XLT.

I'll keep searching!

I hear most of mine from 8am to 11 am CST here in TN. Some i hear with squelch turned off try that.Angelo

 

[grosminet]

10/26/2025 logs , QTH Lyon France, antenna GP 27-45 / AR5000

33.640 MHz us voice
33.780 MHz us voice
33.900 MHz Us voice
33.450 MHz unknown language
33.500 MHz unknown language
33.750 Mhz Russian

Usa is generally firemen always 04:00 to 06:00 pm local time and always around 33 MHz

 

[grosminet]

17:49 local time
33.780 MHz
33.640 MHz
33.480 MHz
33.440 MHz roger bip at the end

USA voices hard to understand due to propagation and short exchanges . Where and what could it be ?

 

[kc2asb]

10/26/2025 logs , QTH Lyon France, antenna GP 27-45 / AR5000

33.640 MHz us voice
33.780 MHz us voice
33.900 MHz Us voice
33.450 MHz unknown language
33.500 MHz unknown language
33.750 Mhz Russian

Usa is generally firemen always 04:00 to 06:00 pm local time and always around 33 MHz

There are still fire departments using this range and they conduct pager tests in the late afternoon/evening.

See if you can match up your 33 MHz captures with the other logs in this thread.

 

[marvinsuggs]

Today’s Low Band Captures Richmond,TX Bearcat BCT15 X scanner Sirio GPA 27-45 MHz ground plane antenna, Butel ARC PRO software.

31.82 D244 Chestnut Ridge Trans, Spring Valley, NY? (Expired License)

33.10 118.8 Cestnut Ridge Transport, Spring Valley, NY

33.58 114.8 Yarmouth, MA FD

33.64 114.8 Bourne, MA FD

33.78 114.8 Falmouth, MA FD

33.86 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD

35.32 D074 Van Pool Transportation, Wilbraham, MA Expired license?

44.58 CSQ BNSF Hy-Rail limits compliance system

 

[d119]

I am enjoying these logging posts. While I normally don't monitor much VHF low these days, reminds me of talking DX out of my police vehicle in 1979 and 1980 on 39.5. Was pretty neat stuff. (ya kind of got in trouble for it too but hey).

Glad you're enjoying the logs - at least for me, it's a decent amount of work and I appreciate that people appreciate it.

And on that note, today's captures from Southern California:

Frequency	Tone	Callsign	User	Confirmed via
31.800	D703	Unknown	Unknown trucking/escort?	Freq/PL/Traffic
31.480	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.060	136.5	KCD451	Trudeau Sand & Gravel Saranac Lake, NY	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.760	123.0	KIA208	Carruth & Son Concrete Waldorf, MD	Freq/PL/Traffic (Mention of gravel)
35.140	156.7	WRFM852	Lee Cardice Monticello, FL	Freq/PL (Carrier only w/ PL)
37.020	146.2	KZM737	W. Milford, NJ Police Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic (Fleetsync heard)
33.580	179.9	KRU978	Preston, CT Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.440	131.8	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.980	D331	WQFZ483	Winkle Bus Co. of West Haven, Inc (CT)	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.740	Carrier	KLB621	WL Roenigk, Inc. (Western PA)	Freq/No PL/Traffic
33.060	123.0	WQAH877	Thomas Bus Service Burlington, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.080	141.3	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.920	146.2	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice/noisy.
37.700	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown	Intermittent dead carriers, varying signal strength.
31.200	91.5	WQPM979	Central HVAC Mountain Home, AR	Freq/PL/Traffic (both sides)
31.640	118.8	KFG780	Havin Materials Union, MO	Freq/PL/Traffic (expired license)
37.380	114.8	VCZ479	Donegan's Haulage Perth, ON	Freq/PL/Traffic
31.600	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "You got a copy, Jeff?"
35.820	151.4	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "553, I just blew a hydraulic line or somethin' so I'm done."
35.040	141.3	KVW581	Northern Clearing Ashland, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.100	146.2	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Male voice: "Waiting for one hopper when those guys get back."
33.900	136.5	KGB393	Radnor Twp, PA Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.900	Carrier	KNFQ946	Noble Co, OH Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic (MDC on dispatch)
31.360	173.8	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "Grab your bucket and come on back."
39.980	88.5	KGL481	Greene Co, NC Fire/EMS 1	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.900	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Dead carrier w/ PL.
35.900	82.5	Unknown	Unknown	Male voices, unreadable.
37.100	162.2	KET358	Morgantown, WV Utility Board	Freq/PL/Traffic (Beaconing CWID)
31.960	107.2	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: foul language, mostly unreadable.
33.880	82.5	KQH904	Licking Co, OH Fire F2	Freq/PL/Traffic ("Fire Control")
33.860	77.0	KGC676	Washington Co, MD Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.980	Carrier	KGD259	Warren Co, PA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic
44.580	Carrier	Multiple	BNSF HLCS	Freq/No PL/Traffic
33.920	Carrier	WNKC982	Lancaster Co, PA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic

 

[marvinsuggs]

17:49 local time
33.780 MHz
33.640 MHz
33.480 MHz
33.440 MHz roger bip at the end

USA voices hard to understand due to propagation and short exchanges . Where and what could it be ?

Possibly these. What PL tones?
33.78 77.0 SW New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid

33.78 114.8 Falmouth, MA FD

33.78 123.0 SW New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid
33.64 114.8 Bourne, MA FD

33.64 136.5 Milford Area, NH FD

33.64 179.9 Windham, CT FD
33.48 114.8 Barnstable, MA FD

33.48 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD
33.44 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD

 

[d119]

Possibly these. What PL tones?
33.78 77.0 SW New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid

33.78 114.8 Falmouth, MA FD

33.78 123.0 SW New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid
33.64 114.8 Bourne, MA FD

33.64 136.5 Milford Area, NH FD

33.64 179.9 Windham, CT FD
33.48 114.8 Barnstable, MA FD

33.48 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD
33.44 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD

Agreed with Marvin. Believe it or not, just like VHF and UHF, there are multiple agencies all over lowband, all on the same frequency. In fact, I routinely hear a semi-local agency that gets clobbered by another agency on the same channel that's 2800 miles away. And I'm good with that

I don't think the primary user hears the distant user within their coverage area, I think that happens due to where I'm located. They're using directional antennas as well.

Basically, without a tone provided, it's anyone's guess who it could be. Though in certain circumstances, *confirming* the *lack* of PL also helps identify who it is, but you need to be certain there wasn't *any* PL received.

Ex:

33.920 NO PL = Lancaster Co, PA Fire Dispatch
33.920 PL 167.9 = Riverside Co, CA Disaster Net

If you aren't tracking tones, you're going to have a difficult time unless you're doing reverse-lookups on addresses to determine county and state, but even those can be difficult due to common street names, etc.

And the lack of FCC database availability right now is causing me quite the backlog in research on quite a few unknowns I'm trying to track down.

 

[W8UU]

Agreed with Marvin. Believe it or not, just like VHF and UHF, there are multiple agencies all over lowband, all on the same frequency. In fact, I routinely hear a semi-local agency that gets clobbered by another agency on the same channel that's 2800 miles away. <snip>

Basically, without a tone provided, it's anyone's guess who it could be. Though in certain circumstances, *confirming* the *lack* of PL also helps identify who it is, but you need to be certain there wasn't *any* PL received.

Part of the problem with legacy low band systems is that many of them have been carrier squelch since Day One -- which could have been 1958. Some systems added CTCSS over the years but many did not. That means you have to listen for call signs, dispatch center identifiers, street names, town names, regional dialect, and time zones to help narrow things down. All part of the fun of DXing low band!

 

[sprman1955]

Todays logs
32.940 pl 141.3 Spanish taxi dispatcher Costa Rica loud
35.910 pl 118.8 French heard
35.640 pl 110.9 French heard
36.010 pl 127.3 French heard
31.600 pl 151.4 Mil Coms firing range
31.320 French polytones
30.000 pl 151.4 Mil Coms sounds like tanks
35.950 pl 127.3 French heard
30.800 no code some kind of wide band signal heard
Nice morning of dx here .Angelo

 

[grosminet]

Strange for french 35 MHz step and pl . 35 Mhz is used for some motorway (Autoroute du sud de la France : ASF ; motorways south france . Signalisation is BIIS 1200 . I have to check if my local repeaters have pl . Generally step is 12.5 khz . 31.320 MHz could be urban light management .

 

[kd4moj]

Is anyone using a database prgm or spreadsheet to keep track of these excellent frequency posts?
...DOUG
KD4MOJ

 

[d119]

Is anyone using a database prgm or spreadsheet to keep track of these excellent frequency posts?
...DOUG
KD4MOJ

All of my posts are logged into a notepad .TXT file, and also transcribed into RR. At the end of each year, I close out that file and start a new one. I always make the "core log" files available to whomever wants them, @marvinsuggs loves 'em. So yes - mine are archived and "public" if requested when the year is closed out.

But for this year, here's today's captures from Southern California:

Frequency	Tone	Callsign	User	Confirmed via
39.480	Carrier	WPCC379	Los Angeles County, CA	Freq/No PL/Traffic (EAS RMT)
33.940	179.9	WNHR373	Waterford, CT Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic (noisy)
33.800	179.9	KXV431	Windham Co, CT Fire Dispatch (QVEC)	Freq/PL/Traffic (very brief)
35.140	156.7	WRFM852	Lee Cardice Monticello, FL	Freq/PL (unintelligible)
33.040	D131	Multiple	First Student	Freq/PL/Traffic. Multiple locations, unknown which one.
37.440	131.8	Unknown	Unknown materials comapny.	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.040	141.3	KVW581	Northern Clearing Ashland, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.380	114.8	VCZ479	Donegan's Haulage Perth, ON	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.740	Carrier	KLB621	WL Roenigk, Inc. (Western PA)	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.980	Carrier	KLB621	WL Roenigk, Inc. (Western PA)	Freq/No PL/Traffic
39.120	Carrier	KNFM345	State of Virginia - VDOC	Freq/No PL/Traffic (CWID)
31.640	118.8	KFG780	Havin Materials Union, MO	Freq/PL/Traffic (expired license)
31.480	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Freq/No PL/Traffic ("Yard and a half") ("Mix Time")
37.020	146.2	KZM737	W. Milford, NJ Police Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic (FleetSync heard)
35.060	136.5	KCD451	Trudeau Sand & Gravel Saranac Lake, NY	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.880	82.5	KQH904	Licking Co, OH Fire F2	Freq/PL/Traffic ("Fire Control")
31.200	91.5	WQPM979	Central HVAC Mountain Home, AR	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.720	136.5	WSDQ559	Montauk Bus Service Suffolk, NY	Freq/PL/Traffic (noisy)
35.920	D156	WQIG620	AJ Myers & Sons Harmony, PA	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.740	Carrier	KYL829	King William Co, VA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic ("King William")
39.560	97.4	WQTF209	State of NY Dept. of Parks & Rec	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.900	82.5	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "Got enough trucks to finish out?"
33.060	123.0	WQAH877	Thomas Bus Service Burlington, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.700	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown	Intermittent dead carriers of varying signal strength.
44.580	Carrier	Multiple	BNSF HLCS	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.980	Carrier	KGD259	Warren Co, PA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.080	118.8	Unknown	Unknown materials company	Mention of silica, loads, water, etc.
35.180	156.7	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "That'll be your mark for your row there."
33.680	Carrier	KBH343	Morgan Co, OH Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.960	131.8	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "Do they go in with the rest of the paperwork then?"
35.100	146.2	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Male voice, unreadable.
37.100	162.2	KET358	Morgantown, WV Utility Board	Freq/PL/Traffic (Beaconing CWID)
33.860	77.0	KGC676	Washington Co, MD Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic

 

[marvinsuggs]

Today’s Low Band Captures Richmond,TX Bearcat BCT15 X scanner Sirio GPA 27-45 MHz ground plane antenna, Butel ARC PRO software.

30.92 167.9 First Student Transport, Warwick, RI

31.24 D131 First Student, Norwich, CT

31.82 D712 Educational Bus Transportation, Suffolk Co, NY

33.48 179.9 Tolland Co, CT FD

33.58 114.8 Yarmouth, MA FD

33.72 179.9 Lebanon, CT FD

33.78 114.8 Falmouth, MA FD

33.80 179.9 Quinebaugh Valley, CT FD

33.96 127.3 Westminster, MA

35.18 162.2 Vernola’s Towing Svc, Norwalk, CA

37.12 74.4 SCADA/Contra Costa Co, CA

43.44 77.0 Ingram Readymix, Houston, TX

44.58 CSQ BNSF Hy-Rail limits compliance system

 

[marvinsuggs]

All of my posts are logged into a notepad .TXT file, and also transcribed into RR. At the end of each year, I close out that file and start a new one. I always make the "core log" files available to whomever wants them, @marvinsuggs loves 'em. So yes - mine are archived and "public" if requested when the year is closed out.

But for this year, here's today's captures from Southern California:

Frequency	Tone	Callsign	User	Confirmed via
39.480	Carrier	WPCC379	Los Angeles County, CA	Freq/No PL/Traffic (EAS RMT)
33.940	179.9	WNHR373	Waterford, CT Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic (noisy)
33.800	179.9	KXV431	Windham Co, CT Fire Dispatch (QVEC)	Freq/PL/Traffic (very brief)
35.140	156.7	WRFM852	Lee Cardice Monticello, FL	Freq/PL (unintelligible)
33.040	D131	Multiple	First Student	Freq/PL/Traffic. Multiple locations, unknown which one.
37.440	131.8	Unknown	Unknown materials comapny.	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.040	141.3	KVW581	Northern Clearing Ashland, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.380	114.8	VCZ479	Donegan's Haulage Perth, ON	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.740	Carrier	KLB621	WL Roenigk, Inc. (Western PA)	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.980	Carrier	KLB621	WL Roenigk, Inc. (Western PA)	Freq/No PL/Traffic
39.120	Carrier	KNFM345	State of Virginia - VDOC	Freq/No PL/Traffic (CWID)
31.640	118.8	KFG780	Havin Materials Union, MO	Freq/PL/Traffic (expired license)
31.480	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Freq/No PL/Traffic ("Yard and a half") ("Mix Time")
37.020	146.2	KZM737	W. Milford, NJ Police Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic (FleetSync heard)
35.060	136.5	KCD451	Trudeau Sand & Gravel Saranac Lake, NY	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.880	82.5	KQH904	Licking Co, OH Fire F2	Freq/PL/Traffic ("Fire Control")
31.200	91.5	WQPM979	Central HVAC Mountain Home, AR	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.720	136.5	WSDQ559	Montauk Bus Service Suffolk, NY	Freq/PL/Traffic (noisy)
35.920	D156	WQIG620	AJ Myers & Sons Harmony, PA	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.740	Carrier	KYL829	King William Co, VA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic ("King William")
39.560	97.4	WQTF209	State of NY Dept. of Parks & Rec	Freq/PL/Traffic
35.900	82.5	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "Got enough trucks to finish out?"
33.060	123.0	WQAH877	Thomas Bus Service Burlington, WI	Freq/PL/Traffic
37.700	Carrier	Unknown	Unknown	Intermittent dead carriers of varying signal strength.
44.580	Carrier	Multiple	BNSF HLCS	Freq/PL/Traffic
33.980	Carrier	KGD259	Warren Co, PA Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.080	118.8	Unknown	Unknown materials company	Mention of silica, loads, water, etc.
35.180	156.7	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "That'll be your mark for your row there."
33.680	Carrier	KBH343	Morgan Co, OH Fire Dispatch	Freq/No PL/Traffic
35.960	131.8	Unknown	Unknown	Male voice: "Do they go in with the rest of the paperwork then?"
35.100	146.2	Unknown	Unknown materials company.	Male voice, unreadable.
37.100	162.2	KET358	Morgantown, WV Utility Board	Freq/PL/Traffic (Beaconing CWID)
33.860	77.0	KGC676	Washington Co, MD Fire Dispatch	Freq/PL/Traffic

Thanks for the shoutout brother 😎

 

[kd4moj]

Thanks for the info.

 

[mancow]

There are some messed up 10 meter repeaters out there. N6LIV 29.660 just keys over and over non stop. Recently, 29.680 has been doing the same with faster re-keys.

 

[kc2asb]

There are some messed up 10 meter repeaters out there. N6LIV 29.660 just keys over and over non stop. Recently, 29.680 has been doing the same with faster re-keys.

I've heard 29.680 during band openings. 29.640 is NY and local to me. I think 29.620 is is KQ2H, upstate NY, but I have not heard it recently.

 

[K9KLC]

I've heard 29.680 during band openings. 29.640 is NY and local to me. I think 29.620 is is KQ2H, upstate NY, but I have not heard it recently.

I'll have to see about 29.620 next time it's open up that way, I used to talk there occasionally. that thing was pretty good usually here when the band was open. I don't do a lot of 10 FM but occasionally when it's really good I like to get on there.