CenterPoint Energy and AES Ohio Frequencies for Montgomery County Ohio

[jsb1964]

Hello!

I live in Farmersville Ohio and I would like to be able to listen my local gas and electric utilities for power outages. I am unable to find the. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

 

[Jphila20]

Doing a quick look on the FCC web site, there are none for Ohio. They probably have a license from another state or corporate HQ.

 

[jsb1964]

Thank you for checking!

 

[kf8yk]

AES Ohio is the parent of DPL (Dayton Power & Light), I assume the following still applies: Dayton Power & Light Company | Harris OpenSky

CenterPoint has a few 900 MHz SCADA data licenses but nothing pops up for voice.

 

[jsb1964]

AES Ohio is the parent of DPL (Dayton Power & Light), I assume the following still applies: Dayton Power & Light Company | Harris OpenSky

CenterPoint has a few 900 MHz SCADA data licenses but nothing pops up for voice.


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That is awesome! Thank you!

 

[dwelty]

DP and L was on a Harris (Ma-com, Comnet, GE, etc.) Open Sky system that was unable to be listened to. Then approx 15 years ago they switched to a Motorola Harmony system, which is also not able to be listened to. My understanding is that Harmony is based on the iDEN system (old Nextel).

Unlike before Open Sky when they were mostly low band (48.18, 48.06, etc) with some high band and UHF in Dayton.

My understanding is Centerpoint Energy doesn't use any radios.

 

[n8yid]

I was going to jump in on this one; but, couldn't exactly remember the name of the system... Thanks for refreshing my memory!

Yup, DP & L has been off the monitoring list for ages... I used to listen to them, back when they were using the EDACs stuff... been a long time

 

[n8wel]

The Centerpoint energy 900 mhz freqs are telemetry control of gas from TC Energy (former Columbia Gas Transmission) at Meter & Regulation stations to Centrerpoint. These are control links for emergancy shutdown valves incase of a major rupture or Tornado at these sources of Meter & Regulation staitions supply that are critical.. There is a tower with enc;losed yagi pointing to either leased AES microwave circuits at Xenia or Phoneton or Fairborn MW towers once under DP&L. Such installations in Clark County are Selma Oh.- Howell major M&R on Townsley Rd., South Charleston Oh. east SR 41, and Troy M&R at SR41 & SR235. No installs at North Hampton Oh. Spence Rd. or New Carlise Oh. north on SR 235.

Also former DP&L 800 EDACS SCAT converted to Open Sky site at AES Mutual Oh. Microwave tower has been out of service in favor of a new P25 site at West Liberty Sub. to cover Champaign county. Xenia was EDACS SCAT also years back voice with control channel on one Freq.

 

[fordcobra04]

Dayton Power & Light -- P25 Buildout

Looks like one license has a pending app to update an existing site with P25 emissions, and another pending app to add new freqs with P25 emissions. DPL is likely commencing on buildout of their P25 system to replace the existing system they have in place (I think it is Motorola Harmony)...

forums.radioreference.com

This is what you're looking for... Stickied thread at the top of the Ohio page...

 

[wa8pyr]

DP and L was on a Harris (Ma-com, Comnet, GE, etc.) Open Sky system that was unable to be listened to. Then approx 15 years ago they switched to a Motorola Harmony system, which is also not able to be listened to. My understanding is that Harmony is based on the iDEN system (old Nextel).

Unlike before Open Sky when they were mostly low band (48.18, 48.06, etc) with some high band and UHF in Dayton.

My understanding is Centerpoint Energy doesn't use any radios.

Actually after low band they started out on an EDACS system. OpenSky was probably a never-ending nightmare they were glad to get away from (like everybody else). Harmony hasn't lasted as long as the EDACS system, either. Glad they finally decided to move to something that might actually work as well as EDACS did.