Metro Area Pike Electric Low Band

[Casey]

Pike Electric (a power contractor for Cobb EMC and Georgia Power) still has spring-loaded low-band antennas on most of their vehicles, even their new pickups so the frequencies must still be in use? Does anybody have any recent hits? FCC records show a lot of different registrations but can someone narrow it down? These may be used for mostly mobile to mobile use but the listening should be interesting in the coming weeks during inclement weather. I do remember there was a base transmitter listing on Sweat Mountain but maybe I'm not using a long enough antenna.

 

[b7spectra]

I had one of the Pike folks come in my store a few weeks back and I asked him if they use their radios. He said they did, but most of their talking is done on their phones.

 

[kk4eb]

Same with Cobb EMC. Most of their traffic is on Nextel. Very little traffic on the 900MHz EDACS system.

 

[MTS2000des]

that will all change soon as Sprint has said it's official, they are shutting down their iDEN system by 2013.

 

[Metrofire31]

Doesn't that just break your heart? Hope it drives alot of folks back to good ole conventional radio. CAN'T BEAT IT.......most of the time.

 

[AerialEars]

You're right Casey, mobile to mobile. Not much traffic.

Here's what I have for them and I've heard them on two of these (although I can't remember which two). They do have a low band base antenna at their location in Walton County.

48.140
48.340
49.520
49.540
49.580

 

[Casey]

Thx Aerial...I'm going to put those in and see if I hear anything if they're nearby again.

 

[K4SVT]

Pike Low Band..

they are on low band simplex...also are patched into cobb emc 900mhz system...