Any tips for monitoring First Energy (JCP&L PSE&G) during an outage?

[howie38]

After suffering through another power outage last night, it occurred to me that maybe I should load the truck communications on my 996P2.
I have JCP&L here but it does border with PSE&G so I'm looking for both. Got all the ' NJ utilities' conventional stuff, but not hearing anything on there.
Any suggestions for the Pemberton area?

 

[policefreak]

PSE&G comes in good on my SDS100 off the Main Simulcast and the repeater is in Pemberton where 640AM comes from. JCP&L seems a little harder and it comes from Allentown, NJ. With a 996P2 YMMV.

 

[bigray246]

I monitored First Energys trunk system awhile ago, never heard anything on any talk group!

 

[tonemaster]

PSE&G comes in good on my SDS100 off the Main Simulcast and the repeater is in Pemberton where 640AM comes from. JCP&L seems a little harder and it comes from Allentown, NJ. With a 996P2 YMMV.

What talk groups do you have in there that would hear emergency dispatches, gas leaks, etc. for BurlCo?

 

[policefreak]

What talk groups do you have in there that would hear emergency dispatches, gas leaks, etc. for BurlCo?

Which system?

 

[tonemaster]

Which system?

The PSE&G P25 Phase II

 

[howie38]

PSE&G comes in good on my SDS100 off the Main Simulcast and the repeater is in Pemberton where 640AM comes from. JCP&L seems a little harder and it comes from Allentown, NJ. With a 996P2 YMMV.

I don't see any systems listed as Pemberton unless it's the one called 'Main'.
Either way, I'm not hearing anything, and I'm in Pemberton.

 

[Enforcer52]

In my area I can pickup Sam Houston Electric Co-Op (my provider), Mid-South Electric Co-OP, Entergy, and Centerpoint. None of them dispatch by radio, they all dispatch work orders by data directly to the computers in the trucks.

The linemen only talk on the radio if they can't find a location, or to tell the dispatch what the pole number is, or the transformer number, etc.
Then when repairs are complete they will advise dispatch that they are complete and/or ask dispatch to re-energize the line or meter or whatever is controlled by the grid.

Mostly useless to listen to most of the time, not like the 'good ole days' before onboard computers and cell phones. During the recent hurricane here about the only time you heard them was when they were re-energizing a line but if you didn't know the location of the line number or pole number you were 'sol'.

Same thing goes for the telephone companies and water companies, computer dispatching and cell phone usage mostly.

 

[howie38]

Oops. after several hours I finally got something off of 'Main' on 'South Electric/ South Switch'