Dane Co.: 2-way traffic on 158.775 paging?

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biglaz

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In Dane county 158.775 is the paging channel. Just a few minutes ago I heard two people talking back and forth, one telling the other about a fire and attempted murder he was at. Anyone know what this could be? The frequency has a station class of Base only, so I doubt anyone should be using this on a mobile to communicate with someone.
 

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No, it's definately someone from within Dane county. The information they were discussing was an active incident in the county.
 

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Howdy All...

Were you able to catch a PL/DPL? Any Unit numbers, locations? Mukwanago Fire uses this frequency with a PL of 91.5 from Waukesha County. I realize that is more than 40 miles away, but I have caught Racine county fire departments paging on their UHF system from Dane County (So Mukwanago isn't that farfetched).

Without a PL/DPL it would be very hard to listen to identify since Dane County pages a fire incident on 158.775 almost every 5 or 10 minutes.

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It was a fairly strong signal, so I doubt it was coming from Waukesha county. The scanner I had it on doesn't do PL. Going off of a hunch and what I could draw from the context of the conversation, I believe it was two stations talking to one another; perhaps Fitchburg station 1 and 2. Even if that is the case, they shouldn't be on that frequency.
 

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Well...I suppose the only other thing I could think of is that maybe it was bleedover from another frequency (But i am guessing you have already ruled that out). I know Fitchburg use 154.2500 and 154.17500.

By chance are you close to any radio towers? Other than that, I have a few contacts in Dane County and I will see what I can dig up.

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I'm about 3mi from the public safety tower south of Verona. That's the closest one.

I have heard this happen on a couple other occasions as well, I just can't remember when.
 
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