Monroe County 155.790 ?

[biglaz]

I'm hearing this clear as day on a rubber duck antenna in Western Dane County tonight, and after much debate I believe it to be Monroe County. The dispatcher (identifying as "county") referred to it as "channel 1", and I'm hearing units in the 500-range as well as "three david ***" units. At first I thought this was Dane County's "tactical response team" channel (as labeled in this database) being patched with a Madison talk group (david units)...but I had doubts because I've never heard Dane County use the frequency before.

Am I hearing Monroe County, or something else entirely?

Thanks!

 

[Karl_KS9E]

If it is Monroe County it should have PL 85.4

 

[bc780l]

There was a massive band opening last night. Northern and central IL was coming in full strength for a short bit. May have been that. PL/DPL captured? 155.79 in Dane Co has two uses and two different PLs.

 

[biglaz]

Unfortunately I wasn't using a PL-decoding device at the time. I know it wasn't Dane County. Inow believe it was McHenry County IL because I did hear a few mentions of Route 176, which does not exist in WI.

What are Dane County's two uses of this frequency?

 

[bc780l]

PL173.8 is the TRT (portable repeater or simplex).
PL167.9 is programmed as "Surburban Car-to-Car" (simplex) -- both infrequently used.

The County reuses many freqs (especially DPW) with different PLs for low-use channels.