Another Loveland DTRS Site?

[soundchaser]

While mapping some of the Larimer County DTRS sites, I've come across a site that is in the FCC database, but not in the RR database. The odd thing about it is that it uses some of the same freqs that are used on Bald North (3-061) and Loveland (3-063), which leads me to believe it's either a simulcast site or a backup site. Maybe someone closer to the site could log it. The freqs are:

852.8500
852.2750
851.8750
851.7000
851.3875

The address is 5300 Frontage Road along I-25.
WPXC683

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

From the address I'm thinking its the temporary site they sometimes use for the fair at the ranch and such . similar to what they do down in Denver for the Cow show

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/let...p=LetterPdf&licSide=Y&archive=null&letterTo=L

not sure what that means

 

[soundchaser]

PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/let...p=LetterPdf&licSide=Y&archive=null&letterTo=L

not sure what that means

That's referencing Antenna #1, which is the site in the center of Loveland. The site I'm referring to is #2. There are 3 sites on that license, Loveland, the unknown one, and Drake.

 

[soundchaser]

From the address I'm thinking its the temporary site they sometimes use for the fair at the ranch and such . similar to what they do down in Denver for the Cow show

Turn your scanner on and see if you get a control channel on one of those freqs. The map shows Berthoud as being able to receive it.

 

[ecanderson]

Trying to monitor those freqs would be interesting since the 852.27500 is the Drake primary CC. With that kind of overlap, it's hard to imagine it's anything more than a potential backup system.

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

try 851.8750 no triaffic but Ill get five bars then nothing kinda strange

 

[soundchaser]

Trying to monitor those freqs would be interesting since the 852.27500 is the Drake primary CC. With that kind of overlap, it's hard to imagine it's anything more than a potential backup system.

That might be outdated info for Drake (assuming the FCC is more current than RR). There is only one freq in the FCC ULS listing for Drake and that is 851.725. When I plot Drake using a 100 watts, it is probably a few hundred yards at best (about 10 pixels on the map); no overlap.

ULS License - PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan,806-817/851-862MHz,Trunked License - WPXC683 - Northern Colorado Radio Communications Network - Frequencies Summary

 

[soundchaser]

try 851.8750 no triaffic but Ill get five bars then nothing kinda strange

That's what a voice channel would look like. So it's not the CC.

 

[soundchaser]

Ok, Drake is also listed under a different call sign: WQJW324 and now has 4 freqs:

851.07500000
851.32500000
852.11250000
852.27500000

 

[scanlist]

The "Frontage Road" site was licensed by the NCCA around 2000 as part of their trunked radio system prior to the eventual merge into the current DTRS system. Those frequencies ended up being used on other sites as mentioned in this thread.

To my knowledge the Frontage Road site never went live as, at the time, there was a DTRS site in Windsor that covered that area when they merged with DTRS.

Eventually the Windsor site was taken down and the Windsor site frequencies were reassigned to Greeley 35th and O Street sites.