Excellent report Jay, just shows how far behind I am in following this developing system. But so far in Edmonton I can only hear Stony Plain which is used mostly by bootleg truckers.
The system was explained to me as an XJ system because most of these repeater channels were being held by Industry Canada from the old VHF telephone system which had channels called XJ ect. Most of the new call letters are in the area of XJT 531-639 and there are some exceptions. They use three tones 162.2, 173.8 and 186.3 like the fireline Simplex series. They use both UHF links and links on 14000.00 and 11700.00 which come up as out of band on my 996XT.
The frequencies are 152.480, 152.495, 152.510, 152.525, 152.540, 155.555, 152.570, 152.585, 152.600, 152.615, 152.630, 152.645, 152.660, 152.660, 152.675, 152.690, and 152.705. So at least 16 frequencies with 3 tones will give you about 48 channels 201-249. The frequencies are not numbered in frequency order but in the order they were licensed. 152.480 and 152.555 the newest.
This is an excellent example of a province wide system using recycled spectrum. One tech told me they got tired of waiting for the new province wide system to get repeaters so they went to work with IC to find VHF frequencies that were not being used. He says with new radios they can still add to the system and expand beyond the 16 frequencies to over 24 which could support province wide EDACS even in Calgary and Edmonton. Most of theirs being isolated would have to be SCAT but would still give lots of flexibility.
Channel 207 Tent Ridge should be 152.570.
Harry
I'm just happy you posted such a good frequency/location list that caused me to ask some questions up here. You know when you've made a good post and captured someone's attention when they can find a typo. I had to edit my own post when I noticed a mistake.
