Elmwood Park/ Rockland County Ham

[jaymatt1978]

Alright maybe I have been listening to the scanner too long but I swear this is true. Over the past few days I have been listening to Elmwood Park PD (472.3000) and have been picking up one of the Rockland Repeater Assoc. 440 repeaters. Whenever the key up the machine it comes over 472.3000 loud and clear. I know it's Rockland because I hear the ID;s and the PL comes up 114.8. Anyone else expirencing this problem??

 

[xpawel15x]

I monitor EP occasionally and I never heard anything other than EP PD on that freq. I'll let you know if I hear anything else.

 

[SCPD]

Sounds like a glitch. Are they commenting about it over the air? I remember a few years back NJ Transit PD was simulcating over a few of the amateur frequencies. Eventually it stopped.

 

[SCPD]

The RR database has a PL of 151.4 for Rockland. Which one is right?

 

[fineshot1]

Alright maybe I have been listening to the scanner too long but I swear this is true. Over the past few days I have been listening to Elmwood Park PD (472.3000) and have been picking up one of the Rockland Repeater Assoc. 440 repeaters. Whenever the key up the machine it comes over 472.3000 loud and clear. I know it's Rockland because I hear the ID;s and the PL comes up 114.8. Anyone else expirencing this problem??

Your probably getting an image frequency conflict. You did not mention what scanner you are using. This type of situation has been discussed to death on this website. It can happen when a combonation of strong signals beat togther (internal to your receiver) and cause this to happen causing confusion on the scanner owners part.

 

[EMD91123]

I remember one night while working dispatch for Paterson Police on 460.3 we were getting Teterboro Airport Tower 119.5 coming over on the base radio's as well as the patrol car radios. Luckily one of my hobbies is aviation and I called the FAA and advised them of the situation and it was cleared up the next day. One of our patrol units asked if HE WAS CLEARED FOR LANDING.

 

[SCPD]

Final Approach to Dunkin Donuts!

 

[jaymatt1978]

I'm using a BC895 and have had Elmwood Park[ in there for awhile, but this just started happening a few days ago.

 

[fineshot1]

I'm using a BC895 and have had Elmwood Park[ in there for awhile, but this just started happening a few days ago.

The only thing that means is that the other offending strong local(to you) signal went into service recently. I do not remember the math involved to figure out the offending frequency but if you find out the IF frequency internal to your scanner there may be a way to compute the frequency that may be causing this problem to you unless you have a scanner with signal stalker or close call feature which may be another way to find it. If you do have one with one of those features activate it and leave it on and hook it up to an external antenna and it may find that signals freq.

 

[nydxa]

Try this. 2x (your scanner's IF freq) + Rockland repeater = 472.300
It's most likely an image in your receiver.
I recall with an old Bearcat, I'd program 167.050 to listen to the old FCC repeater. I'd also hear the Metroplex repeater on 145.45.
Same formula applied 145.45 + (2x IF freq) = 167.05