IC-R20
LoBand Nation
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- Nov 19, 2018
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While downtown scouting parking and a good video spot for the coming parade I ran the itinerant frequencies search and visited a couple of the businesses listed to see if the staff had radios to update some of the existing listings like the Rickety Cricket, which had nothing.
After a few minutes I started getting consistent strong hits on 2 frequencies of 151.505 and 151.5125 both with DCS 026. Both with hangtime like a repeater.
.505 sounded like security with people addressing each other by 2600 numbered units, there was repeated mention of a 'Command Trailer' and a food tent across the street, which I saw nothing of when circling outside the fairgrounds though could be reference to the internal parking lot structure.
.5125 seemed to be maintenance/ground crew and I heard mention of quads with water tanks, vehicles calling out distances moving near each other, and something about someone throwing a football onto some sort of 'tracks' and asking security to get it. As well as mentioning various ambulances showing up at various times.
Both were structured around a 'Dispatch' unit for commands, each end of transmission had a roger beep, and the repeaters regularly keyed out a CWID which I wasn't able to catch but will set up my recorder on VOX later to try and snag a license. They also regularly do a rollcall unit 'code 4' check which is announced by the dispatcher before it's done so I'll try to get that on video too.
Itinerant Scanning earlier this week on Monday and Tuesday showed nothing and the sudden arrival seemed to coincide with the Rodeo event so it seems like the plausible source especially since the signal stopped being scratchy when I came back to main town. Interestingly when driving around North of town (between Gordon and Northern Ave which elevates high giving good line of sight to the rest of town) around the college to see what coverage was like I started picking up weak UHF with similar sounding traffic a lot of which sounded like direct simplex from handhelds and 1 strong base indicating a cross band input and follows the organization structure observed on the 2 VHF outputs.
467.7625 DCS047 Which sounded like one of the repeater inputs and had similar traffic messages to what was heard on the output
and
464.5500 DCS047 Which I only got in proximity of the fairgrounds though notice the same tones.
If anyone else is in the area this weekend a corroboration check of the mentioned frequencies would be appreciated. I know there used to be 3 other locals who posted regularly years ago but not sure if they're still active.
After a few minutes I started getting consistent strong hits on 2 frequencies of 151.505 and 151.5125 both with DCS 026. Both with hangtime like a repeater.
.505 sounded like security with people addressing each other by 2600 numbered units, there was repeated mention of a 'Command Trailer' and a food tent across the street, which I saw nothing of when circling outside the fairgrounds though could be reference to the internal parking lot structure.
.5125 seemed to be maintenance/ground crew and I heard mention of quads with water tanks, vehicles calling out distances moving near each other, and something about someone throwing a football onto some sort of 'tracks' and asking security to get it. As well as mentioning various ambulances showing up at various times.
Both were structured around a 'Dispatch' unit for commands, each end of transmission had a roger beep, and the repeaters regularly keyed out a CWID which I wasn't able to catch but will set up my recorder on VOX later to try and snag a license. They also regularly do a rollcall unit 'code 4' check which is announced by the dispatcher before it's done so I'll try to get that on video too.
Itinerant Scanning earlier this week on Monday and Tuesday showed nothing and the sudden arrival seemed to coincide with the Rodeo event so it seems like the plausible source especially since the signal stopped being scratchy when I came back to main town. Interestingly when driving around North of town (between Gordon and Northern Ave which elevates high giving good line of sight to the rest of town) around the college to see what coverage was like I started picking up weak UHF with similar sounding traffic a lot of which sounded like direct simplex from handhelds and 1 strong base indicating a cross band input and follows the organization structure observed on the 2 VHF outputs.
467.7625 DCS047 Which sounded like one of the repeater inputs and had similar traffic messages to what was heard on the output
and
464.5500 DCS047 Which I only got in proximity of the fairgrounds though notice the same tones.
If anyone else is in the area this weekend a corroboration check of the mentioned frequencies would be appreciated. I know there used to be 3 other locals who posted regularly years ago but not sure if they're still active.
