Orange and Rockland Gas uhf link

[svfd17]

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Hi, for a while I've been hearing o and r gas being simulcast on 451.0875 100.0 pl and I was wondering what would be the point in having this uhf link considering it has awful audio quality and keeps cutting out during transmissions. I live about 5 minuets walking distance from their main antenna site on route 59 and it's just not clear at all. Btw I did notice a worker had a uhf portable in his car.

 

[ff026]

looks like its a mobile repeater, probably a pac rt. it drops transmission's so it can listen on the mobile frequency, which gives the portable priority over the low band rebroadcast.

here is the license:http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseFreqSum.jsp?licKey=1881356

 

[svfd17]

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Hey, thanks a lot, what do you mean by pac rt?

 

[GTR8000]

PAC/RT is a mobile extender. Also known as a "crossband repeater". It's basically the same as the current Pyramid repeaters used in the fire apparatus for TACT-1, but "PAC/RT" is Motorola's name for it.

Although, looking at the FCC license, they do have it licensed as a base in Spring Valley. It's possible that they repeat Gas East and Electric East low band onto UHF so there's in-building coverage there.

 

[svfd17]

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thanks for the info guys!