Scanner worked whenever I took it out w/ no antenna on the mountain. Site 2 appears to be Lincoln mountain (tons of antennas up there). Could hear site 2 and 5 from Lincoln with site 2 being very strong. Site 5 the summit (summit was closed but got close from top of 23 and full strength w/ no antenna up there), and previously unknown Site 4 appears to be Chair 12 (strong at chair 12). (Makes sense doesn't come in from eagle lodge area given mountains in the way). Site 4 worked on the backside which seems to confirm chair 12 and it came in strong at top of chair 2 too.
Site 4's control channel is 855.3625. I'll have to program what I suspect it would be based on the others and try to get the LCNs sometime. One could park at main lodge and it should come in well.
Thanks for the confirmation, nothing beats actually going up there and checking first hand!
That’s pretty uncommon for a trunking system to have so many sites so close together, but with all the nooks and crannies of the terrain on the mountain I guess they want to be really really sure. It also helps that the radios are automatically comparing the control channel from each site and picking the strongest, so the user never has to mess with that, the radio just “works”.
Somewhere I have photos from an old phone of the antenna farm on top of one of the lifts (maybe Chair 12?) back when it was the Motorola Type I system. I remember being impressed by how many antennas and coax and boxes they managed to fit in the mezzanine of that lift building.
