Ocean Township PD

[jnl67]

Hi all,
I am trying to locate a Freq for Ocean Township PD, that is not listed here.
Very rarely, the patrolman will say switch to channel 5. I suspect it may be one of the repeater inputs, but i haven't been able to verify it as a scan of the inputs draws nothing.

I know for sure it is not their local vhf talk around.

Any ideas?

Thx

 

[Joseph11]

Hi all,
I am trying to locate a Freq for Ocean Township PD, that is not listed here.
Very rarely, the patrolman will say switch to channel 5. I suspect it may be one of the repeater inputs, but i haven't been able to verify it as a scan of the inputs draws nothing.

I know for sure it is not their local vhf talk around.

Any ideas?

Thx

Monmouth or Ocean County?

 

[jnl67]

Sorry,I should have specified.
Ocean Township, Monmouth County.
Not Ocean Township, aka Waretown.


Thx

 

[DJ88]

It could very well be one of the input frequencies to one of the PD Channels, 1,2, or 3, in simplex, low power, and you just may be a little too far away to pick it up, depending where they are. Here in Brick, there is a PD Channel 3 frequency that is simplex, car to car only. When the cops are on the other side of town from me and use it, I can't receive them, and I have an outside antenna. Anyway, I have asked someone who may know and if I get an answer, no guarantees, I will post.

 

[kb2vxa]

One thing you can be sure of, it's not a repeater input, that would cause the signal to be repeated or interfere with users of the repeater if a different PL than required for the repeater is used. No, that's simply not allowed. There are 3 possibilities, simplex on an assigned repeater output, an assigned simplex frequency, or a frequency used by another agency including possibly a repeater output. Since portables on VHF 5W or less and on UHF 2W or less a license is not required a trick they often use to ditch the scanners is another agency's assigned frequency. For example, the old UHF system used in Union and Middlesex counties had channel 6 as car to car simplex (portables in Convertacoms) on the NYC sanitation department repeater output. Good choice, it's nearby frequency wise and not likely to be monitored by anyone other than garbage truck fans (;->)outside the city. I'm not a garbage truck fan so I asked a detective friend on a local police force in the county. I couldn't hear them at extreme range either, that's why those systems use satellite receivers and a voter at the repeater site.

 

[Tech792]

Kb2vxa wrote: One thing you can be sure of, it's not a repeater input, that would cause the signal to be repeated or interfere with users of the repeater if a different PL than required for the repeater is used. No, that's simply not allowed.

I know of towns that do just that. While it is not the best of ideas, it is allowed and is there is no FCC rule against this.
Two towns come to mind. Atlantic Highlands and Hazlet.

 

[DJ88]

Thank you Pete for confirming the information in my post. When I posted I was thinking of Hazlet, indeed, using the input to the Fire Dispatch repeater as their Fire Ground channel. I was unaware that Atlantic Highlands did the same thing. Brick Twp. has a similar set up. Fire 5 is the input to the repeater for Fire 4. I may not be a genius when it comes to this sort of thing, but I do know a little.

 

[jnl67]

Thanks for all the replies. I still haven't been able to crack it. As i stated it is very rare that they switch to this freq.