39.525 PL 79.7
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d119
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39.525 doesn't follow the 20kHz standard spacing, it would be 39.520.
Speaking from experience, if you look at my logs in the Skip/Tropo forum, Southern California has a wonderful, steady path to certain points on the East Coast at certain times of the day. So yes, what you heard WAS Craig County SO in Virginia, I hear them regularly. The local user for that channel is Orange County FSP South, and you can tell when you're hearing them (DTMF ID on units, very CHP-like operation). You're lucky you caught Craig, usually FSP talks so damn much I can't listen through it all on my recordings. Craig has MDC on some of it's units, FSP does not.
Craig is very informal, "good ole' boy" sounding. If you heard Craig, if you park a radio on 33.880 or 33.860 for a day with any reasonable antenna, I'm sure you'll hear Licking County, Ohio and Washington County, Maryland. I can set my watch by them. There is also a lowband repeater in West Virginia on 37.100 that beacons its CWID, you might sit on there and listen for a few hours, see what you hear (KET358).
Everything is on 20kHz even spacing (39.500, 39.52, 39.54, 39.56, etc.) in VHF-Lowband (save for some specialized stuff), so if you scan in 20kHz steps, your life becomes much easier and faster.
Speaking from experience, if you look at my logs in the Skip/Tropo forum, Southern California has a wonderful, steady path to certain points on the East Coast at certain times of the day. So yes, what you heard WAS Craig County SO in Virginia, I hear them regularly. The local user for that channel is Orange County FSP South, and you can tell when you're hearing them (DTMF ID on units, very CHP-like operation). You're lucky you caught Craig, usually FSP talks so damn much I can't listen through it all on my recordings. Craig has MDC on some of it's units, FSP does not.
Craig is very informal, "good ole' boy" sounding. If you heard Craig, if you park a radio on 33.880 or 33.860 for a day with any reasonable antenna, I'm sure you'll hear Licking County, Ohio and Washington County, Maryland. I can set my watch by them. There is also a lowband repeater in West Virginia on 37.100 that beacons its CWID, you might sit on there and listen for a few hours, see what you hear (KET358).
Everything is on 20kHz even spacing (39.500, 39.52, 39.54, 39.56, etc.) in VHF-Lowband (save for some specialized stuff), so if you scan in 20kHz steps, your life becomes much easier and faster.
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d119
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Doesn't surprise me.
wtp
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bring the squelch to 2 to hear more.
d119
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What antenna do you guys use on low-band?
d119
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I use a Diamond CP610. It feeds a Uniden BCD996P2 and a dedicated PC that runs ProScan, and it sits there and logs 31, 33, 35, 37, 44 and 45MHz including frequency, PL, and audio.
I dropped 39MHz due to to much environmental noise hanging the thing up. Take a look at 2025 VHF Low Band Logs if you'd like to see some of the stuff myself and the other low-banders receive on a regular basis.
ecps92
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Yes, based on US / FCC channel plans, not always what can be found when the bands open from other countries.
YMMV but 5 kHz is still best for searching in IMHO.
d119
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I guess it depends on what you want to listen to. I'm only interested in stuff stateside.
d119
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If you want to split hairs (EDIT: what a great pun!), 12.5kHz would be the ideal spacing, considering that is what most of the European stuff operates in.
ecps92
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which would be found/caught if using 5kHz
We've run across (Non VHF Low) where Canada uses 5 kHz in our Federal 12.5 kHZ and it will be caught, but only a strong signal.
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