Another Lowband Skip Question

[Dispatrick]

also last night i picked up Dover Rescue on 46.420 being requested to birchwood mutual aid i did a search of Dovers And Birchwoods and none of them are in the same county unless i missed something and they border each other from different counties

thanks

 

[jeffmulter]

25 miles from you, as the crow flies, does not quality for skip.

Dover Rescue and Rockaway Twp / Birchwood Fire Company are both in Morris County, N.J.

http://fdnytrucks.com/files/html/otherstates/Morris County/Rockaway Twp-Birchwood.htm

Sorry ... I had an unfair advantage. I once lived in Morris County.

 

[Dispatrick]

ahh tought i picked up something far away,ill keep listening

thanks for your help

 

[jeffmulter]

We've all been there ... you think you have a distant one, and it turns out to be a new local.

And visa versa.

I'm a big advocate of PL / DPL tone monitoring for conventional channels, and all my base equipment can decode or decode-and-filter tones. Last spring, I was making changes to a Pro 2006 scanner file, so that scanner was running in carrier squelch mode.

Just after 6 p.m., the 2006 stopped on 39.10 - which the county fire departments in my neighboring county use for dispatching. I recognized the callsign and pager test broadcast, although it wasn't my neighboring county ... it was the municipal dispatcher testing the rescue squad pagers for the N.J. town I grew up during the 60's (Scotch Plains, in Union County).

So, you never know.