Low Band Skip

[fireside]

Hearing Floyd County VA. fire KWI730 on 45.32. Heard a dispatch for a man trapped under a collapsed floor 11:35AM CDT

 

[k9rzz]

I got a kick out of this guy heard on 43.00 mhz. Have no idea who it is.

http://hometown.aol.com/J999w/43MHZ+BAD+SKIP+.wav

John K9RZZ
Milwaukee

 

[chaser915]

I am in Albany NY and right now at around 2300 hrs I have a simple pro-2054 with an inside antenna (from scanner world, not sure of what its called) and I am hearing strong signals on:

42.64
42.82
42.64
42.58
42.56
42.86
42.14
42.40
42.36

 

[LPD7]

From Lowell MA got alot of Missouri Highway Patrol with my Stock anteanna

These were mine:

42.40/173.3- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.92/173.8- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.14/186.2- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.64/186.2- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.82/186.2- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.58/186.2- Missouri Highway Patrol
42.86/203.5- Missouri Highway Patrol

 

[illini52]

Keep a listen on 42-43 MHz for Illinois State Police. They won't be on too much longer on these freqs so be sure and get the recorder going.

 

[illini52]

Here's my logs from today. I just have a piece of wire as a scanner antenna.
33.9 131.8 hz Fire
33.86 94.8 hz Fire
33.8 179.9 hz Fire
33.44 Repeater that kept opening up
33.96 179.9 hz Fire

 

[k9rzz]

I didn't have time to really listen much, but did have 43.0 mhz on for a while, lots of activity.

 

[PCPA]

Got curious about what others experienced back in June because on June 25 I was headed south on US 131 from Grand Rapids MI, and then east on I-80. At that time my monitor was a Unidean BC 200XLT, which always scans channel # 1 if priority is activated. My priority channel was southcentral PA York/Lancaster/Lebanon Fire Dispatch 33.90.

Around 11 AM in Kalamazoo I heard a York County PA fire dispatch...verified that a couple of days later. Around 1 PM in eastern Indianna or western Ohio I heard several Lancaster County PA Fire & EMS dispatches. Monitor was connected through BNC/coax to an external lo band antenna trimmed to 33.90.

 

[RayAir]

I miss the days long ago when I lived at home and my parents let me put a scanner antenna with 6 foot vertical low-band radials on the roof (they lived in the country). I used to pick up 46/49mhz cordless phones from up to 2 miles away and I also scanned a lot of skip. Most of it seemed to come from Mexico. Now,10 years later, living in a subdivision with an association, I doubt I could put up an antenna like that! I get by with my trunktracker scanner by the window on the 2nd floor with an extended length whip antenna.

 

[PCPA]

On that trip I described above I was riding with a retired Chief of Police whose department used 45.18. Hearing the skip brought a lot of reminisence about the days when York County PA could talk to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

 

[mancow]

.........reminisence about the days when York County PA could talk to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Now, that's interoperability!

 

[MOTOROLANUT]

lol

lol....I get spanish speaking skip on 39.6800....

 

[GTR8000]

Anyone ever pick up Rockland County, NY "44-Control" on 46.180 (131.8)? If so, from how far away?

They're pumping out 300 watts off the main transmitter from a site at an elevation of just over 1,000', and being right on the Hudson River and not too far from the Atlantic Ocean just up from NYC, I figure they'd be sending out some pretty good waves.