Curios freq use in/around Norman.

[wright_wd]

Anyone else heard what sounds like a taxi company operating on 144.630mhz in or around Norman? That is a 2 meter ham freq, but for the last week or so, I've been hearing folks chatting like it was their own commercial system--some type of dispatch to Riverwind for a pickup, calls directing drivers to get fuel and return to base and even some crazy stuff about pants falling off and none of them are using amateur calls. Anybody else hear this chatter?

 

[Secret_Squirrel]

I haven't heard it but I would think that someone would catch hell over doing something like that. The "ham-cops" are hard enough on their fellow hams. I can only imagine what kind of ruckus they would create over something like this.

 

[OUAlumni]

What radio and/or radios are you listening to this on, just out of curiosity?

 

[KX5MOT]

I listened for a few hours this afternoon and heard nothing around 36th and Main.....

 

[wright_wd]

Yeah, Squirrel, that's what I figured too. I've asked a few local hams and scanner enthusiasts if they'd heard them and so far, I'm the only one. So far, I've heard them on my TH-F6a ht and my FT-8100 mobile (both ham rigs). They seem to be most active around 17:00 local. To see if I could prove my theory about a taxi service, I monitored that frequency from about 02:00 to 03:30 Saturday a.m. but got nothing. The first time I heard them was during my lunch break, around 17:50 last Monday while scanning the 2 meter band. I've only heard them once or twice since Thursday. I tried to contact them by calling CQ on that freq and got nothing.

 

[freqscout]

hmmm...can you hear it while at work, too?

 

[freqscout]

I listened for a few hours this afternoon and heard nothing around 36th and Main.....

Finally lost that cheesy Big M avatar and went with something a little more...racey?

 

[Gilligan]

were you able to get a PL or DPL tone on the freq?

 

[wright_wd]

Yep. I've heard them at work, in the vicinity of Porter and Rock Creek, and at home in the driveway, not far from N. E. 12th and Robinson. I'm going to try this week to catch them and make a recording of their traffic. So far no tone, but they have to be transmitting before my tone search will work.

 

[KX5MOT]

Well i've still have not heard anything on that freq, i guess i'm too far away.

Finally lost that cheesy Big M avatar and went with something a little more...racey?

Yeah some guy that uses a MA/COM radio got jealous so i figured i should change it.

 

[wright_wd]

Most current traffic was today at 17:58cdt by my watch. "Unit 31" was calling to "base" to report a job complete and then added a 10-3 code to the end? Unit 31 also reported that "the guy" was not around to take care of something, then base responded that he would call him. That was about it and it was not long enough for my tone search to catch a tone.
Anyway, that's the last I'll trouble you guys with this unless I come up with something a bit mroe SOLID. Thanks for all your input and help.

 

[Secret_Squirrel]

It's no trouble. Thanks for posting the info wright.

 

[plaws]

Most current traffic was today at 17:58cdt by my watch. "Unit 31" was calling to "base" to report a job complete and then added a 10-3 code to the end? Unit 31 also reported that "the guy" was not around to take care of something, then base responded that he would call him. That was about it and it was not long enough for my tone search to catch a tone.
Anyway, that's the last I'll trouble you guys with this unless I come up with something a bit mroe SOLID. Thanks for all your input and help.

It could be an image, but you said you hard the traffic on two different rigs. Do you know if both receivers have the same IF?

I've got it on priority in my BCD396T and will try to remember to add it to the scan list in my FT90R in the car.

Serious stuff if it turns out NOT to be an image.

So to recap:

• 144.630
• Usually around 1700
• Norman area

I'll try to corroborate.

 

[wright_wd]

That's correct, Peter. It seems around 17-18:00 must be their quittin time because they are usually talking about gettin gas and coming back to base.
I sure hope this doesn't turn out to be one of those "dang newbie doesn't know his gear" situations.

 

[freqscout]

Yeah some guy that uses a MA/COM radio got jealous so i figured i should change it.

Dang Provoice Freaks.

 

[wright_wd]

Alrighty then, I've got something SOLID now. I am a newbie . This is a radio issue with the Kenwood TH-F6A when monitoring 70cm on "A Band" and listening to 2m on "B Band". I know I mentioned I heard it on the 8100 as well, but I must have had the wrong channel tuned and THOUGHT it was on 144.630. Anyway, in my defense, here's the formula from the Kenwood manual for internal frequencies.

(A-band receive freq-59.85MHz) X 2 (2m band receive freq on the B-Band + 57.6MHz) X 4 = (+or-)59.85MHz or (+or-)57.6MHz
A-band freq=444.775 and B-band freq=144.630

If you can figure this out, you'll get the officially un-official, super secret, double-naught ham spy award presented by the Jethro Clampett Foundation for Higher Learning.

You may now commence with the obligatory "newbie" remarks and I promise I'll verify all suspect traffic on at least TWO radios from now on!

 

[NewbombTurk]

Jethro was a Bodine.

 

[wright_wd]

Doh!