6/29/08 - lowband

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KF4ZTO

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Lots and lots of spanish-speaking taxi dispatchers booming in this morning in Richmond, VA.

logs:
26-28 - 11 meters going crazy, nearly all the legal 40 CB channels are breaking through,
what I like to call "the spanish connection" coming through on 26.715 and lots of SSB around 27.5 and 27.6 MHz. I need to get my HF radio down here.

28-29 - lots of SSB activity breaking through the squelch on my Pro-96
29.620 C118.8 - repeater keyups with beep - N0CBL working WB2K...something
29.620 C146.2
29.640 C127.3 - rebroadcast of Pittsburgh, PA NOAA weather radio, with alert tones
29.660 CSQ? - very weak, ham repeater
29.680 C118.8
29.750 C100.0 - spanish speaking
29.770 C162.2 - spanish taxi dispatcher, telephone ringing in background
30.740 C107.2 - "zero eight, zero eight" - spanish with MDC1200 bursts
30.740 C146.2
30.880 C225.7 - spanish taxi dispatcher - i hear these guys pretty regularly when the band is open
30.900 C131.8 - North Carolina Forestry Service?
30.960 C173.8
31.020 C179.9 - taxi dispatcher, spanish/english
31.040 C173.8
31.240 C136.5
31.400 C91.5
31.440 C100.0
31.480 C127.3 - road crews?
31.520 C114.8
31.720 C103.5 - spanish, reading telephone numbers
31.880 C88.5
31.920 C192.8 - spanish speaking, talking about apartment numbers
31.960 C82.5 - spanish/english
32.210 - 32.230 - data, wideband...don't really know what to make of this...
33.160 C77.0
33.480 C123.0
33.500 data
33.540 C123.0
33.680 C114.8
33.740 C114.8
33.740 C156.7
33.880 C186.2
33.900 CSQ? - kind of weak, didn't get tone "West Manchester Township"
33.940 C179.9 - EMS dispatch
35.130 C162.2
35.180 C82.5
35.280 C74.4
35.320 C141.3
35.460 CSQ - "unit 141 copy"
35.680 - very strong pager transmitter
35.740 C203.5 - spanish/english "Golden Gate Hotel" then reading phone numbers in spanish
35.840 C156.7
35.860 C123.0
35.920 C110.9
35.960 C151.4
37.020 C146.2 - police
39.400 C110.9
39.540 CSQ - keyups, sounds local? Virginia SIRS channel.
42.640 C186.2
 
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daneg

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You said 33.90 for West Manchester Township. There was a fire this morning over in York County, West Manchester Township...maybe thats what you heard? Which is odd because I live in the county over and didnt hear it haha.
 

KF4ZTO

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It's a possibility, considering I was hearing PA ham repeater on 29.640, The signal on 33.90 was pretty weak though, all I managed to copy was "Manchester Township" and something about a shopping mall.
 

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It was good opening on low band today. Of course, the ten and six meter bands were jumping with Field Day ops. I heard beacons in CA, LA, AZ and FL at the same time on 28 mhz - a good radius.

Also logged on 50 mhz stations in Saint Barthelemy ( http://www.w0sd.com/stbart/bart.htm ) and Cayman Island.
 

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It's a possibility, considering I was hearing PA ham repeater on 29.640, The signal on 33.90 was pretty weak though, all I managed to copy was "Manchester Township" and something about a shopping mall.

If you google West Manchester Township there is only one which is in York County in PA. I would say most likely that would be it.

Matt S
 
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