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Can anyone give me ny details on what they use ( Radio Wise ) Im very curious
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jamie davis towing
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Jamie Davis .. they are a towing operation in Hope, BC.
Here is their website: Heavy Vehicle Recovery, Emergency Rescue, Accident Recovery, Semi Truck Towing, Mobile Truck Repairs in Chilliwack, Hope, Merritt, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kootenay, Rocky and Cascade Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
Here is their website: Heavy Vehicle Recovery, Emergency Rescue, Accident Recovery, Semi Truck Towing, Mobile Truck Repairs in Chilliwack, Hope, Merritt, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kootenay, Rocky and Cascade Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
East_Algoma
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The info was sent to me quickly , thank you folks !!
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I would be interested as well . Please PM if you don't want to make a public post . Thanks
Had a similar thread going on another forum. There were a few you could try but nothing definitive. Sorry for the cross post;
www.scanbc.com • View topic - Jamie Davis Towing Frequencies
www.scanbc.com • View topic - Jamie Davis Towing Frequencies
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Is he one of the tow operators featured on the TV series "Highway Through Hell" or something like that? They usually work a stretch of highway known as the "Coke" (that's how it's pronounced, at least).
Is he one of the tow operators featured on the TV series "Highway Through Hell" or something like that? They usually work a stretch of highway known as the "Coke" (that's how it's pronounced, at least).
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That is the shortened name. Anyone in BC, heck western Canada will know what highway one is talking about by calling it 'the Coke'. Here is a link with details about the highway: http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/coquihalla/
It is pronounced 'cocahalla' highway. It runs from Kamloops to Hope BC. At one time it was a toll highway with the toll booth at the Coquihalla summit one of the highest points of the highway.
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That is the shortened name. Anyone in BC, heck western Canada will know what highway one is talking about by calling it 'the Coke'. Here is a link with details about the highway: http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/coquihalla/
It is pronounced 'cocahalla' highway. It runs from Kamloops to Hope BC. At one time it was a toll highway with the toll booth at the Coquihalla summit one of the highest points of the highway.
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They do use radios. They probably use LAD 1,2,3,4 and may or may not have access to BC MOT repeater network due to how closely they work with MOT on that highway. They may also rent a tone on a community repeater.
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They do use radios. They probably use LAD 1,2,3,4 and may or may not have access to BC MOT repeater network due to how closely they work with MOT on that highway. They may also rent a tone on a community repeater.
The "Coq" is actually Highway 5.
Yeah they are most likely using LAD as you can hear clips of truckers chatting away on what sounds like LAD on the show. However, as per the ScanBC forum post there is some speculation that Jamie Davis may be using one of his brothers (Aggressive Towing) frequencies.
There are no "community" repeaters on that highway as per the TAFL, only government and utility repeaters. From travelling this highway and listening to MOT repeaters, I have yet to hear any tow operators on there.
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Sorry dwc, I should have said 'what highyway a person is talking about' it was a poor choice of words on my part. I spent a lot of time driving the Coq back before the toll boths were removed. Do you know if there is continuous cell coverage on the highway now?
Sorry dwc, I should have said 'what highyway a person is talking about' it was a poor choice of words on my part. I spent a lot of time driving the Coq back before the toll boths were removed. Do you know if there is continuous cell coverage on the highway now?
Cell coverage is still pretty sketchy.
A few years ago I was driving the Coq in the middle of the summer and about 30 minutes outside of Merritt we stumbled on a lady whos engine had blown out.We all tried to use our phones to call for a tow truck but got the ol' NO SERVICE error. Fortunately I was able to raise someone in Kelowna on the VE7TYN repeater (SIRG Network) and they had a truck dispatched out within minutes.
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Yea that is not suprising. For such a busy highway I'm suprised Telus has not improved/added 800MHz cellular on that highway any. I usually monitored LAD1-4 and a couple of other... less than legal... 'trucker channels' while travelling the Coq. although I did have a long conversation with a ham in Vernon while I travelled Hope to Vernon one night. SIRG is/was a decent network, although it has been well over 15 years since I was a NORAC member.
Yea that is not suprising. For such a busy highway I'm suprised Telus has not improved/added 800MHz cellular on that highway any. I usually monitored LAD1-4 and a couple of other... less than legal... 'trucker channels' while travelling the Coq. although I did have a long conversation with a ham in Vernon while I travelled Hope to Vernon one night. SIRG is/was a decent network, although it has been well over 15 years since I was a NORAC member.
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So, just curious. What's LAD, and does it have anything to do with "radio controllled highways" that I've seen mention of elsewhere here in the forums?
So, just curious. What's LAD, and does it have anything to do with "radio controllled highways" that I've seen mention of elsewhere here in the forums?
LAD channels are kind of the MURS of Western Canada. Logging, oilfield, and other commercial road users use the frequencies. They are part of the uncreatively-named "basic ten" batch of frequencies licensed to such users.
LAD-1 – 154.1
LAD-2 – 158.94
LAD-3 – 154.325
LAD-4 – 173.37
153.05
162.21
163.05
165.48
166.62
168.12
LAD-1 – 154.1
LAD-2 – 158.94
LAD-3 – 154.325
LAD-4 – 173.37
153.05
162.21
163.05
165.48
166.62
168.12
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Gennerally, the 'Basic Ten', are used by the oilfield/logging industry for traffic control on logging/oilfield roads, these roads tend to be very narrow, and a lot of times not wide enough for two transport trucks to pass side by side. In BC they are more, as Jay911 stated, the MURS of Canada rather than road control frequencies, the logging companies will have other licensed frequencies that they use for road control. They are not used on highways for radio control but more for chatting between truckers. In Canada the basic ten are licensed up to 30w. In BC they are generally used as chat channels, in Alberta they are likely going to be used on Radio controlled roads for traffic control or for comms between pilot trucks and heavy, over dimentional loads. Sadly the 'Basic Ten' have really become more like a 10 channel VHF CB, if in Western Canada, and you scan the basic ten, it will sound like CB, bad language included. But minus echo/rogerbeeps, and skip.
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Gennerally, the 'Basic Ten', are used by the oilfield/logging industry for traffic control on logging/oilfield roads, these roads tend to be very narrow, and a lot of times not wide enough for two transport trucks to pass side by side. In BC they are more, as Jay911 stated, the MURS of Canada rather than road control frequencies, the logging companies will have other licensed frequencies that they use for road control. They are not used on highways for radio control but more for chatting between truckers. In Canada the basic ten are licensed up to 30w. In BC they are generally used as chat channels, in Alberta they are likely going to be used on Radio controlled roads for traffic control or for comms between pilot trucks and heavy, over dimentional loads. Sadly the 'Basic Ten' have really become more like a 10 channel VHF CB, if in Western Canada, and you scan the basic ten, it will sound like CB, bad language included. But minus echo/rogerbeeps, and skip.
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Spend some time tuned into LAD 1 or 2 down this way if you can stand it. Might as well call them CB.
And yes "radio controlled roads" is an apt description and these channels are used for such purposes in BC as well. The gist of it is that road users are to call out their location, type of vehicle, and direction, so that they can anticipate when they will come across one another - i.e. so a B-train full of propane knows to expect a pickup truck oncoming around one of the next couple of bends in the road.
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