California Highway Patrol being heard in Colorado

[Mick]

Picking up 42.44 100.0 Red2 KNEZ551 Redding CHP here in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Distance is 933 miles per Google Maps.

 

[mmckenna]

The beauty of low band. Also the bane of low band.

 

[mc48]

I'm in New York and back in the Day, I would routinely listen to the CHP with my BC210 in my truck using a 5/8 wave VHF Motorola antenna.

 

[ko6jw_2]

In the late 1970's I was in Seattle and arranged for a tour of their fire boat station. SFD was on UHF, but still had some 33 MHz channels. In the wheel house of the boat was an old GE low band radio on 33.70MHz. I commented to the captain that LAFD used that frequency for dispatch. He said, "Oh yeah, I talk to them sometimes." Not much use of PL in those days. We also used to get strong signals from the East Coast on our local sheriff's low band frequency.

As solar conditions improve we'll see a lot more of this (I hope). Six meters has been open lately.

 

[n3obl]

33.70 was a big western pa fire dispatch channel for 4 counties.

 

[WX4JCW]

39.5 was huge too

 

[nsrailfan6130]

33.9 & 33.94 were good ones too. The main one I had been hearing on 33.94 was Pasco Co FL.

 

[reconrider8]

i may have to try to monitor lowband again. havnt done so in years as all i have is a mobile lowband whip on my car

 

[W1KNE]

I'm in New York and back in the Day, I would routinely listen to the CHP with my BC210 in my truck using a 5/8 wave VHF Motorola antenna.

A few (maybe 8-9 now) years ago, I heard CHP in Quincy, MA. Growing up in the early 80s, they were common in western Mass.

 

[theoleman]

Thursday morning (1100 CDT), CHP Brown2, Tan, Purple, Turquoise were received in Coleman County TX for a couple of hours. Antenna is a 6 meter laird mobile.
The beauty of this location is scant trees, no power lines and nil cell phone towers!