I was in Bridgeport on 5/6, and 5/7/10. On my way down stopped at the Branford Rest area on I-95, and Bpt Police came in "loud and clear" on their main channel of 154.725 mhz. But for the fire dept it was another story. Could barly hear them on their main channel of 153.77 MHz. Somebody had mentioned earlier that BFD was coming in very poor in Shelton (?). I fully agree from the transmissons that I heard. Later while even in Bpt., the fire was coming in about half the volume of the police. And units were calling and I could only pick up a few that were appparently close by. Certainly, no repeater in use from what I could hear.
As a matter of fact, I seemed to be picking up Stamford Fire on 154.13 Mhz better than Bridgeport Fire while in Bpt. And the surrounding depts were all coming in good. (Milford, Stratford, Fairfield Fire, etc with no problem). It is my opinion that after listening those two days that at least for now, the Bridgeport Fire transmissions are worse than before. It seems they have much less volume. Whatever the problem, they certainly are NOT transmitting up to par in comparison to all the others.
I did NOT monitor any other Bpt.fireground channels or other Bpt P.D. channels. Only 154.725 and 153.77 Mhz.
