There was another tower that was near Rt. 42 in the field. Around 39.646837, -79.391819. The way the street view looks in May 2009, it was just a pole in the middle of the field. I think a storm took it down because it's not there today. Not sure what its purpose was. I was around 9 or 10 at the time. Never really payed attention to towers much back then, not like I do today.
A related question ... Has anyone seen anything that indicates when CHART will be started up in District 6? I haven't copied any activity on TG 7291 since last January, even then the total count of activity was only 10.
I haven't seen any activity from 7291.
As for Garrett County and the new consoles...
I believe the RIDs for the new Garrett County consoles are in the 243900x range. I've logged 2439001, 2439002, and 2439003 so far. There's 4 consoles so the last one is probably 2439000 or 2439004. I heard a series of tones on GR Fire EMS Main early morning (single 1000 Hz tone, hi-lo hi-lo for structure fire, and a weather alert tone) on the 19th from 2439001 and then "Radio maintenance testing only." Most of the time the tones aren't showing a source RID. There was a toneout for siren and pagers for each company, Co 110 had incorrect tones. I did pick up 3 unknown talkgroups, 12631, 12633, 12634. A GCSO radio was heard doing a 10-97 (Radio Check) on those 3 talkgroups around noon on Tuesday, and 2439002 keyed up for 5 seconds of silence. Nothing since on those TGs. This morning, 21st of May, around 07:42 it sounded like Mineral County police over GR Fire EMS Main - 12601. Sounded like analog. It was a tone and then something about resuming normal radio traffic.
Side note: I hope the consoles some with better mics. Currently it's hard to understand what's being said, it's garbled and there's a lot of noise. Sometimes background noise, but mostly static like noise. Like a bad cable or mic.
