Blue Mountain Ski Area - Palmerton (Carbon County)

[wa3ysu]

Does anyone have any confirmed frequencies and usage for the Blue Mountain Ski Area in Palmerton (Carbon County)?

I did some research and found very little, except these five frequency references:

152.930 ?? (PL=131.8? Transportation?)
155.160 ??
461.750 ??
464.325 ??
464.925 ??

Any insight would be appreciated!!

Kel

 

[Steveradio]

152.9300 PL131.8 Transportation - Base to Unit # 20 they normally call for pick up at the top or bottom of the hill.

155.1600 PL131.8 Ski Patrol * Confirmed

For the UHF side, unknown. For some reason down in the valley the other two frequencies with base scanner come in pretty good. If you find any information please pass along, wouldn't hurt to monitor those UHF frequencies if you are taking a ride up.

Steve

 

[wa3ysu]

I confirmed in use on 1/8:

KNEN792 - The Tuthill Corp, D/B/A Blue Mountain Ski Area
155.160 PL=131.8 - Simplex - Ski Patrol

WNWC603 - Blue Mountain Ski Area
464.325 DPL=732 - Repeater - Operations (includes lift operators and grooming machines) - very active repeater but relatively low power - The base ID's as "Control".


I did not personally confirm:

KJL334 - Blue Mountain Ski Area
152.930 PL=131.8 - Others have advised that the transportation mini-buses operate here, but I did not try to verify. I did see VHF antennas on the buses though, as well as on some of the maintenance trucks.

 

[svw]

Bms

Here is the following for Blue mountain Ski:


155.1600 131.8
152.930 131.8

Both of these are used for maint. 155.1600 was the old BMS Ski patrol Channel

464.325 R #732
461.725 CSQ on the RX and 186.2 on the TX

Both of these are used for ski patrol, both are confirmed, I Work for the palmerton Ambulance and we make 10-12 trips a day out to the blue.


scott

 

[wa3ysu]

Thanks Scott!!! I missed the 461.725 freq you note completely. Ironically, it looks like it is unlicensed too, or at least I could not find it in the FCC license files.

The 464.325 activity was nearly non-stop operations most of the day between lifts, grooming machines and "Control", and I did not hear any Ski Patrol ops there. I am guessing that the Ski Patrol is primarily on the 461.725 freq you note, with capability on 464.325???

Odd that I heard lots of periodic chatter on 155.16 regarding checking trails/etc, but I guess that could indeed have been maint since I did not hear any specific comms talking about injuries.

Thanks again for the added information!!

 

[captclint]

Here is the following for Blue mountain Ski:

Scott, Would you please update Carbon database since you are clearly in-the-know?

 

[svw]

BMS and data base

Ski partol is on the repeater, patrol1 is top shack the rest they just use their names on the radio to see who is close to the injury, and yes you will the lifts and other stuff they are always talking to the patrol passing on information about accidents, i will send the updated and take a look at the channels and pass along any updates, it is a low power repeater and have to be with in a few miles, the repeater is in our ambulances , thats how we talk to them. The radios they use are ht750 with the stubbu antenna so its uhf for sure.


scott

 

[svw]

Bms

the 155.1600 in regards the checking the trails is the for the groomers, Top Shack has both radios in the base.


scott

 

[wa3ysu]

Thanks again Scott!

Could you advise what the 461.725 freq is used for by Ski Patrol, and is that simplex, or is there a low power repeater on that one too?

 

[svw]

Bms

The 461.725 is just a simplex channel they use it to talk to each other so they dont jam up the repeater channel, its not very strong our ambulance building is less than 6 miles and we cant hereit at all. It does not even cover the whole mountain very well.



scott