Parrot on 462.5875 with CWID that's also piping through scanner audio

[IC-R20]

I've been hearing this Simplex Parrot on FRS channel 2 since 2019 that regularly beeps out the ID "I6GVX". I would regularly also hear the Voice ID of 1 amateur repeater on it but just assumed it was overload as the signal got stronger in the neighborhood where that license address is registered. This year though I've been increasingly hearing more HAM radio like traffic on it and decided to spend the full day recording it to see what popped up and managed to hear another another Amateur 70cm repeater that is nowhere nearby as well as a trunked 800 MHz talkgroup that I recognized the user of from the voice and name being called. I know it's not someone I have better pickup than the parrot I hear nothing else coming out on that same frequency as well as the lack of keying over each other as would happen. As for the ID I would assume there is a K that's getting cutoff as looking up that callsign reveals repeater ban and jamming issues from 2014 though from California and nowhere near Northwest AZ and last I checked he's never been here. The CWID doesn't appear to be a scanned HAM repeater as when you key it up with an FRS radio it will send that out if it's been long enough since the last time.


Has anyone ever heard something like this before? The coverage area is pretty decent and about what I would expect from a HT on a rooftop, far reaching but slightly staticy pretty much everywhere except in the same neighborhood. It outputs a CTCSS of 67.0Hz but repeats anything heard on the same frequency tone or no tone. It's around the area of maidenhead square DM25xe.


I've clipped together some audio here of the various recordings throughout the day showing the ID in the beginning, a QSO on an out of town repeater, and the second to last shows a pickup up of an LTR talkgroup, and the very last demonstrates the original FRS parrot functionality as you hear a kid play with it who happened to be using the same channel and tone:
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[WRTF671]

Weird! I'm in, can't wait for the thrilling conclusion! I wonder if someone has some wires crossed somewhere?

 

[KF0NYL]

I have to ask, what type/brand of radio are you using when you hear all of that?

 

[IC-R20]

Weird! I'm in, can't wait for the thrilling conclusion! I wonder if someone has some wires crossed somewhere?

I think it was just for general situational awareness like how some DOT/Public Works/Fire Departments occasionally monitor other agencies repeaters.

People have all sorts of Community ideas for FRS/GMRS then once the system is setup realize they have nothing to say or do and the whole thing just sits there most of the time. To clarify though it's only a 1 way audio feed. Though I could hear myself on the HAM repeater over the FRS relay only and not the other way around.

It's never been used in the few years it been on other than the incidental traffic that it picks up since it accepts any tone but I am curious about the audio patching setup and what scanner they are using to provide the monitor feed.

 

[oldradioguy2010]

Sorry, I missed the QTH.
as near as possible.

DW
So. Cal.

 

[mikegilbert]

My guess is someone set up a simplex repeater for their kid, and forgot to turn off scan on the radio they connected it to.

 

[IC-R20]

My guess is someone set up a simplex repeater for their kid, and forgot to turn off scan on the radio they connected it to.

Yeah not even close.

 

[IC-R20]

Sorry, I missed the QTH.
as near as possible.

DW
So. Cal.

It's coming from near another local HAM house so I didn't wanna say just in case.