Ok fellow hobbyists....
I spent the day driving NW Utah yesterday .....I spend the entire afternoon driving I-84 / I-15 in Box Elder and Weber Counties.
I took my netbook hooked to a PRO-95 with all the control channels programmed into it - connected to the netbook through the discriminator port and the sound card. The second scanner (PRO-197) connected with a cable and set to Weber Simulcast CC.....third scanner (PRO-197) connected by cable and set to Cal Mountain CC and alternately switched to the Promintory Point CC. All setup to monitor with the windows version of UniTrunker.....
My results floored me!!!! ......I went clear to exit 24 (24 miles from the Idaho border) ....it claims Hansel Mountain is right around exit 7 by Snowville....and the site extends for 25 miles....I could not find any signs of Hansel Mountain. I set my Pro-39 up to scan frequencies between 851.000 and 868.000 while driving. It didn't pick up anything but the vc's and cc's for the already identified stuff.
The thing which really floored me was Weber Simulcast.....it was still going STRONG at exit 24 with no change in signal strength the entire trip. Cal Mountain had some challenges especially when going between or around some mountains in the area. That is to be expected....but Weber Simulcast never waivered.....so on the way home I set one of the PRO-197's to use only Weber Simulcast and all 760 tgid's on the ucan (just for ease) and I could hear all of Northern Utah stuff all the way back to Ogden ....some 70 miles.....
The reengineered site Reservoir Hill cannot provide that kind of coverage in the terrain. There has absolutely got to be other xmitter sites setup along that route....
I did not have time to go up I-15 from the fork towards Malad but trust me when I think the outcome will be the same.....It appears Box Elder has been wired to be handled on Weber Simulcast for the majority of the Eastern side of the County. I think they are still using some of the old VHF stuff in other remote parts of the county but the main part is on Weber Simulcast.
Now it's time to hear from the experts on this stuff......
Paul
I spent the day driving NW Utah yesterday .....I spend the entire afternoon driving I-84 / I-15 in Box Elder and Weber Counties.
I took my netbook hooked to a PRO-95 with all the control channels programmed into it - connected to the netbook through the discriminator port and the sound card. The second scanner (PRO-197) connected with a cable and set to Weber Simulcast CC.....third scanner (PRO-197) connected by cable and set to Cal Mountain CC and alternately switched to the Promintory Point CC. All setup to monitor with the windows version of UniTrunker.....
My results floored me!!!! ......I went clear to exit 24 (24 miles from the Idaho border) ....it claims Hansel Mountain is right around exit 7 by Snowville....and the site extends for 25 miles....I could not find any signs of Hansel Mountain. I set my Pro-39 up to scan frequencies between 851.000 and 868.000 while driving. It didn't pick up anything but the vc's and cc's for the already identified stuff.
The thing which really floored me was Weber Simulcast.....it was still going STRONG at exit 24 with no change in signal strength the entire trip. Cal Mountain had some challenges especially when going between or around some mountains in the area. That is to be expected....but Weber Simulcast never waivered.....so on the way home I set one of the PRO-197's to use only Weber Simulcast and all 760 tgid's on the ucan (just for ease) and I could hear all of Northern Utah stuff all the way back to Ogden ....some 70 miles.....
The reengineered site Reservoir Hill cannot provide that kind of coverage in the terrain. There has absolutely got to be other xmitter sites setup along that route....
I did not have time to go up I-15 from the fork towards Malad but trust me when I think the outcome will be the same.....It appears Box Elder has been wired to be handled on Weber Simulcast for the majority of the Eastern side of the County. I think they are still using some of the old VHF stuff in other remote parts of the county but the main part is on Weber Simulcast.
Now it's time to hear from the experts on this stuff......
Paul
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