BIG BAND OPENING

[radioman2008]

VHF Propagation Map (mennolink.org)
reports alor of red from florida to the NW up into Arkansas and Missouri

hearing 155.715 PL 186.2 RR says its Lee Co Alabama

also hearing
145.350 PL 91.5 poss alabama
147.285 DPL 332
154.875 DPL 155 Putnam co Sheriff fl
154.885 P25 NAC 455 unknown loc
154.920 107.2 poss Alabama Highway Patrol Troops A, F
155.190 P25 NAC 219 unknown loc
155.250 94.8 RR says it is La Valle Sauk County FIRE WI (doubt it but who knows)
155.445 131.8 poss Alabama Highway patrol Troop F
155.445 151.4 poss Alabama Highway patrol Troop G
155.505 114.8 poss Alabama Highway Patrol Troop C


picking up in Tampa Bay Fl

 

[lwvmobile]

Haven't had a lot of luck on the VHF bands, but I'm not set up the best for them right now. Doing pretty good on the UHF bands though, getting good signals on the 450Mhz band picking up a TIII Clay Electric pretty strong, but mostly seeing more sites and LCNs than normal on SLERS EDACS in 851-860Mhz and also FPL sites Live Oak and Lake City around 935 Mhz. I suspect in the wee hours of the morning all sorts of fun stuff will be out there to pick up.

 

[radioman2008]

just heard 155.860 PL 110.9 country twang medical call to 405 H and H Rd
cant find in google, but RR only entry in Muskoka District Ontario Canada, doubt it

also
152.545 PL 192.8 NO RR entry
154.980 PL 146.2 RR shows multiple agencies quite far from FL
155.130 RAN 12
155.145 PL 123.0 FD tone out, poss AL or OK per RR
155.565 PL 203.5 RR says Autauga AL PD disp
155.665 DPL 411 no direct RR entry for DPL but fd disp to 10563 Hwy 494, google says Meridian MS
155.780 RAN 11 Levy co Fl
155.835 PL 131.8 RR says Clarke CO AL Sheriff 1
155.860 PL 186.2 RR no exact match

 

[radioman2008]

154.190 PL 100.0 nothing close to FL, possibly Carter Tn FD
155.445 114.8 RR says alabama highway patrol troop A
155.760 DMR CC1 SLOT 1

 

[radioman2008]

propagation map is still heavily red all over the SE USA at 7AM 10/27

 

[lwvmobile]

Well, I did find a Con+ Site 162.2 DCC 1 and 162.3 DCC 1 on 461.025 Mhz and 461.825 Mhz a little while ago but haven't seen anything on there since. Not sure if I'm missing the control channel, and I'm also not sure what it is either. I did find 461.025 for Florida State College in Duval County, but I'm not sure if that's what I got or not.

 

[bravo14]

Well, I did find a Con+ Site 162.2 DCC 1 and 162.3 DCC 1 on 461.025 Mhz and 461.825 Mhz a little while ago but haven't seen anything on there since. Not sure if I'm missing the control channel, and I'm also not sure what it is either. I did find 461.025 for Florida State College in Duval County, but I'm not sure if that's what I got or not.

You might be picking this one up RadioReference.com - Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference Database there is no other system listed beside the one in the link.

 

[bravo14]

Last night and til about noon everything in the south was all red and I didn't pick up much stuff on uhf/vhf or 800 stuff. No I don't have a outside antenna.

 

[lwvmobile]

You might be picking this one up RadioReference.com - Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference Database there is no other system listed beside the one in the link.

Yep, that's the one. The groups I have match 'Concrete Company', sounded like some good ol' boys out there too working and carrying something, so was probably concrete mixer trucks or something.

Con+, 162, 6991, 50, Normal, 1, 2021/10/27 11:40, ""
Con+, 162, 7001, 50, Normal, 1, 2021/10/27 11:39, ""
Con+, 162, 1900081, 50, Normal, 1, 2021/10/27 11:38, ""

My best guess is that it was Sweet Mountain...wait a minute, its Sweat Mountain, GA.

Actually, looking again, might have been Montgomery AL.

 

[bravo14]

I put my travel antenna on roof and picked up a few things mostly in my area. I didn't pick up anything from Ga or TN. Mostly south AL and NWFL

 

[radioman2008]

propagation map is very red from florida to the NW again tonight...

 

[bravo14]

propagation map is very red from florida to the NW again tonight...

I don’t about how long the bands will last tonight. There’s a lot of rain heading east in WNFL by 11pm.

 

[lwvmobile]

Yep, supposed to have rain and thunderstorms during the course of the day tomorrow here.

 

[spdfile1]

This morning (Wednesday morning) I was driving back home from work (West Palm Beach to Port St. Lucie) and was monitoring a local 70cm machine on 443.900, well low and behold I was picking up the WC4PEM machine out of the Lakeland area wall to wall & tree top tall. Wasn't able to get into it though but sounded great!!!!!! Hopefully this morning (Thursday Morning) it'll be open again!!!!!!

 

[bravo14]

I was scanning certain freqs when it was raining didn't pick up much. As soon I stopped scanning certain freqs than BOOM a bolt dropped 1 street over and I jumped out of bed felt like a bomb going off.

 

[902]

We had a busy police department's repeater output in Alabama coming through our VHF repeater input with the correct CTCSS tone. Seemed to happen pretty consistently until the afternoon.

 

[CanesFan95]

This morning (Wednesday morning) I was driving back home from work (West Palm Beach to Port St. Lucie) and was monitoring a local 70cm machine on 443.900, well low and behold I was picking up the WC4PEM machine out of the Lakeland area wall to wall & tree top tall. Wasn't able to get into it though but sounded great!!!!!! Hopefully this morning (Thursday Morning) it'll be open again!!!!!!

That thing is a really good repeater.

 

[lwvmobile]

Getting some good openings tonight in the 800Mhz range, and had some signals I haven't seen before in my area on and off the last couple days, but just found one briefly but can't lock back onto it at the moment, but here's the info on it.

Well, I found an EDACS system that isn't SLERS, I don't believe. It appears to be Networked or Standard, not ESK like SLERS is, on 856.65. It had Site ID of null when using ESK, but noticed the commands weren't XOR'd, so switched to standard and got Site ID of 54, but SLERS site 54 doesn't have this frequency. I searched RR and only found this thread where somebody else found it too.

Trunking Frequency - Zeros

I don't know if I just now noticed this or if something changed but I noticed today that when looking at the frequencies for trunking systems and sites the following zeros are now missing. It appears to be only on the trunking frequency list as in the conventional area the zeros are showing...

forums.radioreference.com

Could possibly be off frequency slightly, but still decoding as non ESK. Can't 100% Verify accuracy of Site ID either.

 

[bravo14]

Last night and tonight it showing purple in NWFL not sure if purple is good or worse? I don't see nothing on uhf/vhf & 800. This pic is as of 12/25/21 9:27pm.

 

[ecps92]

Purple is sporadic-e

if you click on the upper left hand above the + the menu opens, then click on about and the colors/disatances are explained


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sporadic-e
★★★Qualit

Last night and tonight it showing purple in NWFL not sure if purple is good or worse? I don't see nothing on uhf/vhf & 800. This pic is as of 12/25/21 9:27pm.
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