The other day I was monitoring the local sheriff's office. It was in the background as I was busy with some other things, but I heard mention of SWAT and evacuating people so I knew something big was up. I then heard a call from a deputy who'd been injured and was clearly in distress. I had to go off and do some other things for a while. When I got back to the radio there was no further communication concerning the SWAT situation or the injured deputy.
I mentioned this incident to a friend who's a former deputy and still has a lot of friends there. He called someone who still worked in the sector where these calls originated and was told there was nothing like that had gone on that day. I've seen no mention of any of this in the local news.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating. So, here's my question to the group. Is it even remotely possible that a PSR-500 could pick up a ducted signal from a distant source and somehow think it was from a local 800MHz Motorola Type II system?
I know broadcast FM signals are subject to sometimes being carried great distances, but I have no idea if signals in the 800MHz range can be similarly carried by the atmosphere. The odds for that to happen on exactly the right frequency at the precise moment the local system indicates there's a broadcast on that voice channel seem astronomical. And for it to happen on multiple transmissions seems virtually impossible.
Sound like the hallucination scenario is more likely. <g>
I mentioned this incident to a friend who's a former deputy and still has a lot of friends there. He called someone who still worked in the sector where these calls originated and was told there was nothing like that had gone on that day. I've seen no mention of any of this in the local news.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating. So, here's my question to the group. Is it even remotely possible that a PSR-500 could pick up a ducted signal from a distant source and somehow think it was from a local 800MHz Motorola Type II system?
I know broadcast FM signals are subject to sometimes being carried great distances, but I have no idea if signals in the 800MHz range can be similarly carried by the atmosphere. The odds for that to happen on exactly the right frequency at the precise moment the local system indicates there's a broadcast on that voice channel seem astronomical. And for it to happen on multiple transmissions seems virtually impossible.
Sound like the hallucination scenario is more likely. <g>