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ecps92
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VHF has been open of late
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“VHF has been open of late”
In amateur radio it’s referred to as a “band opening”, in CB it’s often called “skip”, an atmospheric condition hams rely on to reflect their signals, bounce them from the ground to the atmospheric layer, increasing the distance the signals will travel.
I’ve worked two amateur repeaters along the east coast, one on the Delaware Memorial Bridge and another on Cape Cod. I was using a local repeater in Ct. All three repeaters used the same PL to activate. It’s called Tropospheric Ducting, set up by a weather front that covered at least the distance between the bridge and the cape. While my contacts were not technically being bounced off of the ionosphere, the weather front acted in the same manner.
In amateur radio it’s referred to as a “band opening”, in CB it’s often called “skip”, an atmospheric condition hams rely on to reflect their signals, bounce them from the ground to the atmospheric layer, increasing the distance the signals will travel.
I’ve worked two amateur repeaters along the east coast, one on the Delaware Memorial Bridge and another on Cape Cod. I was using a local repeater in Ct. All three repeaters used the same PL to activate. It’s called Tropospheric Ducting, set up by a weather front that covered at least the distance between the bridge and the cape. While my contacts were not technically being bounced off of the ionosphere, the weather front acted in the same manner.
MarkB513
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I'm hearing it also from my mobile in Cheshire, so it's very doubtful it's MA. It sounds like a county dispatch or simulcast of a dispatch out of New York, possibly Suffolk? I have not had time to research, but I've heard fire/ambulance dispatches for "Port Washington", wherever that is. A lot of whirling old school tones. They always end the dispatch with the dispatchers # and never a call sign!!!! It has to be extremely annoying for Hamden themselves.
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Since the band is open again (woooo)
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What PL are you getting ?
LI has a 127.3 user
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MarkB513
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It's the same PL as Port Washington's new repeater as of 9/17/2022. Their input frequency (including the dispatch apparently) is the same as Hamden's, 150.775. I didn't notice they were actually coming over Hamden's repeater until I heard it again last night. Yea this must really be annoying for Hamden...
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ULS License - Public Safety Pool, Conventional License - WPWL482 - PORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT (fcc.gov)
MarkB513
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I agree. And then there's western Suffolk County Fire/Rescue dispatch on Med-102. Why would you pick a med channel for a countywide dispatch, especially on Long Island??? And wasn't the idea of expanding the med channels, for med-channel usage or coordination? I can hear them in the background of Northwest C-MED in the Meriden/Cheshire area while driving around. Thank goodness it's a different PL.
I am pretty sure that's the job of the frequency coordinator. Problem is, there are too many of these fly by night national coordinating services that a check and a smile will get you the coordination letter needed to get a frequency. I've seen a few of these over the years from so called "radio experts" who think they know how to be radio techs.
The only one who can alleviate this issue is Hamden's radio vendor changing PL tones. Sadly that's the only real fix for it.
Doesn't surprise me unfortunately. Back when I was at C-MEd New Haven, we were getting interference on Med 10 and Med 7. Come to find out when it was looked at, someone on LI set up a trunked system utilizing the UHF Med channels as the control channels. Yes that was a $ show at the time.
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