33.82 Low Band Middlesex County question.

[misterpaul71]

Hi folks, caught a fire call today on 33.820 tone 167.9 "Headquarters Station 51 you have a call" in Monroe Township, call was to Bailor St, Stratford Meadows at Monroe - can anyone confirm where the call would have come from - is it Monroe itself? The 167.9 tone isn't listed in the database on here. Any help would be great.

Heard via skip in Ireland @ 0908 est.

 

[RadioDitch]

Hi folks, caught a fire call today on 33.820 tone 167.9 "Headquarters Station 51 you have a call" in Monroe Township, call was to Bailor St, Stratford Meadows at Monroe - can anyone confirm where the call would have come from - is it Monroe itself? The 167.9 tone isn't listed in the database on here. Any help would be great.

Heard via skip in Ireland @ 0908 est.

Per FCC data...

 

[Tech792]

Yes it was Monroe. For some reason, they started simulcasting their fire pages on 33.82 in the past few weeks.

 

[robbinsj2]

Station 51 is Monroe #1.

In 2008 I logged Spotswood using 33.82/167.9 to alert its own and the Helmetta fire companies; back then Spotswood worked on East Brunswick's trunked system and Helmetta on their own UHF conventional channel. Prior to that the Spotswood dispatcher used 33.82/162.2 and units talked-back at carrier squelch. The 15 years which have passed and the current database here suggest that is now outdated but I wonder if there is some dispatch consolidation or "information sharing" (making it easier for other companies to be aware of nearby activity) at play in this Monroe change.

 

[kd2pm]

1982 I was stationed in Germany on top of a mountain and actually got the Fords FD nightly test on 33.82. That was awesome since I lived the next town over. That was the one and only time I got skip from NJ

 

[Scannerfreak6743]

Should this be added to the RR DB under Monroe?

 

[rr60]

1982 I was stationed in Germany on top of a mountain and actually got the Fords FD nightly test on 33.82. That was awesome since I lived the next town over. That was the one and only time I got skip from NJ

Tickled fuzzy memory Ed. Ran a Master Pro on 33.940 into a Phelps Dodge dipole up on Johnston Drive before it was built out. Got several QSL cards from Germany over the years.