Hi All,
I'm not sure if I stumbled onto something, or if this is already known to some of you; but I decided today (8/04/2019) to do a "Control Channel Only" search using my BC396T for a VSTARS search, just for "grins and giggles". I am located in Western Henrico County. I had been using the Richmond site (listed as 001 in the DB, located in Chesterfield). The radio locked onto 152.0400 and had the exact same SID as the Chesterfield site: 019Eh-0101. The control channel came in very solidly: 152.0400. A search of the DB page for all of the VSTARS sites not only showed nothing as a control channel anywhere for that frequency, but no site using that frequency at all! The other frequencies used (after monitoring for at least an hour) are: 159.1125, 159.1875, 159.2625
The Chesterfield site shares three of the above frequencies, but has a total of ten, including the primary CC of 152.0375 an alternate CC of 151.1525.
The new "site" used the same IDs as the Chesterfield site. I was able to switch between the two and follow the same conversations. Some of the IDs noted are:
5030: (DOT TAC 4, Safety Service Patrol, Richmond)
1: VSP Ric 1 (Richmond 1)
3: VSP Ric 2 (Richmond 2)
So, perhaps this is a new "filler" site of some kind? I'd be interested for others to monitor this same control channel (perhaps with a more sophisticated setup than I have!) and tell us whatcha think!
73 de W4PKR, Jim
I'm not sure if I stumbled onto something, or if this is already known to some of you; but I decided today (8/04/2019) to do a "Control Channel Only" search using my BC396T for a VSTARS search, just for "grins and giggles". I am located in Western Henrico County. I had been using the Richmond site (listed as 001 in the DB, located in Chesterfield). The radio locked onto 152.0400 and had the exact same SID as the Chesterfield site: 019Eh-0101. The control channel came in very solidly: 152.0400. A search of the DB page for all of the VSTARS sites not only showed nothing as a control channel anywhere for that frequency, but no site using that frequency at all! The other frequencies used (after monitoring for at least an hour) are: 159.1125, 159.1875, 159.2625
The Chesterfield site shares three of the above frequencies, but has a total of ten, including the primary CC of 152.0375 an alternate CC of 151.1525.
The new "site" used the same IDs as the Chesterfield site. I was able to switch between the two and follow the same conversations. Some of the IDs noted are:
5030: (DOT TAC 4, Safety Service Patrol, Richmond)
1: VSP Ric 1 (Richmond 1)
3: VSP Ric 2 (Richmond 2)
So, perhaps this is a new "filler" site of some kind? I'd be interested for others to monitor this same control channel (perhaps with a more sophisticated setup than I have!) and tell us whatcha think!
73 de W4PKR, Jim
