I stopped at the "Bay Country" rest area on US301 and Hayden Rd/MD834 on the Eastern Shore yesterday morning and heard an MSP unit talking to another directly on the McHenry low band channel 39.08 MHz
This is remarkable because
1) this was pretty much as far from Garrett County as you can get, so pretty sneaky on their part to use the McHenry barrack W channel;
2) it's on low band and not on the FiRST trunked system.
They were running RADAR speed enforcement based on the conversation, which was fairly loose in nature.
So I'm glad I had all the MSP low band frequencies opened up in my scanner otherwise I would've missed that neat little gem. I know he was moving because there was mobile flutter and even complete fade out of his signal while I was parked listening to this over about a 15 minute period. Verrrry interesting.
This is remarkable because
1) this was pretty much as far from Garrett County as you can get, so pretty sneaky on their part to use the McHenry barrack W channel;
2) it's on low band and not on the FiRST trunked system.
They were running RADAR speed enforcement based on the conversation, which was fairly loose in nature.
So I'm glad I had all the MSP low band frequencies opened up in my scanner otherwise I would've missed that neat little gem. I know he was moving because there was mobile flutter and even complete fade out of his signal while I was parked listening to this over about a 15 minute period. Verrrry interesting.
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