no lowband in tulsa???

[okla-lawman]

Ok i got the new antenna on my scanner. I was hoping to pick up the state low band transmissions and still nothing.
A very funny thing is though I have never been able to pick up much of the ba/bixby/gpool edacs system and event though this antenna is rated only up to 440 mhz I am getting their signal in tulsa regularly.
Any ideas on why no low band reception or is there just no one using it??

 

[K5MAR]

I really don't have a feel for lowband ops out of Tulsa, but I'd think you'd be able to hear some traffic from Vinita, if nothing else. And yesterday morning, I heard some Turner units working with the plane on 44.70. Do you have both pairs of lowband freqs programmed? 44.70/44.90 and 45.22/45.18 MHz

Mark S.

 

[okla-lawman]

I thought (think) I have every low band game/parkrangers..ohp etc..
I will have to get the program off of my other laptop and transfer it to my new one. I have not had much of a chance lately..I have been working way to much

 

[K5MAR]

Never messed with the park rangers. Used to have the Lake Patrol freqs programmed in, but the only time I ever heard anything on them was once down by the Arbuckles, and that was actually a search for a domestic violence suspect who's vehicle was spotted by a Lake Ranger, Must have been a bad one, they had an Ocean unit in the air, as well as 5-6 troopers and several of the Lake units. Since then, I lost those freqs in a reshuffle of scanner banks.

BTW, I remember you were asking about PL tones on the 92/2067 scanners awhile back. I read last week on another thread that if you have your scanner in tone decode mode, when you get a tone displayed on a channel, push the Trunk button and it will save the tone to that channel's memory.

Mark S.

PS: Need to lighten up on the workload, all work and no play makes Jack a dull (not to mention grouchy) cop.

 

[oklameatman]

I regularly visit family in Sand Springs, and the only low band traffic I hear are troopers talking car-to-car, via 45.22 MHz.

 

[xxxsandman]

Lowband is alive and well in NE Oklahoma. I live in the Pryor area and can pick up considerable OHP traffic on low band from Troop L out of Vinita. They don't have 800mhz, so that's all they use, low band and VHF repeaters. I have a scantena antenna from antenacraft up 90 foot in the air, so that probably helps a little too.

The signal on low band generally isn't that great, hearing Vinita Low band in Tulsa without a big antenna might be difficult. Since Troop B in Tulsa has 800mhz, I doubt they mess with low band much, although I hear they all still have low band capability.