With Es season 2022 on our doorstep, I'm a big fan of low band fire frequency DX scanning. I'm wanting to program my search limits on my BCT15X and remember the 33mhz span is 33.46 to 33.98 Mhz but I cant recall the old 46mhz span that used to be dedicated to fire. Anyone remember?
Old low band fire frequency allocations.
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46.06 to 46.5
and i see 33.42 to 33.98
46.06 to 46.5
and i see 33.42 to 33.98
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Might go higher, since Baltimore County used to have 46.52
Besides fire, don't forget the California Highway Patrol in the 39-45MHz area especially around 42MHz.
Thanks all, I stand corrected on those 33 mhz frequencies. BTW Es is active even as I type this. East coast volunteers from my QTH in Ohio on the 33mhz freqs.....73
It seems like most of what I hear on the 33 MHz fire channels is cross-patched UHF or 800 MHz systems. You can hear the mobiles and hang time on the repeater, and the audio has that gritty, second-generation sound quality. The old days of Cleveland, Ohio's "KQA-216 to the Fire Department" are pretty much over. Just an observation.
46.52, 46.54, 46.56, and 46.58 were Local Government frequencies. Fire Departments could use them but they weren't considered true PF/Fire frequencies.
W8UU thanks for information. I started scanning in last year or so in Baltimore County before they went to the 800 TRS around 1989.
Still dispactrhing on 46.46 for all calls after all these years, but only use tones for Volunteer Stations
Still dispactrhing on 46.46 for all calls after all these years, but only use tones for Volunteer Stations
I heard Baltimore Co on 46.46 yesterday in Richmond,TX. And Washington Co, MD on 33.86.
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