Pascagoula, MS - BP radio system goes on air in Jackson County for Gulf oil spill

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I'm starting to get a feeling it'll be patched into MSWIN (among other similar systems) so probably no need to feed it really. Gotta find it first though before anything happens. :lol:
 
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I'll drive out to the site in the morning on the way home from work and run a search through the 700mhz and 800mhz band and run an active sweep with Close Call to see what I come up with.
 

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Drove out there this morning parked less than 100 feet from the fence line and for several minutes searched 700 & 800 mhz with no results. Also ran close call and didn't hit on anything not already known.
 

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May be a little while yet before there's enough activity on it to be able to catch traffic at any given moment I imagine. 6-8 foot whips would be VHF I guess? VHF seems likely anyway given the vast area involved. I know they are using Marine VHF channel 72 over my way. I watched and listened to about a dozen or more boats returning to Bayou Cassotte this afternoon while I was "at work".:wink:

2 of MSRC's Responder vessels were in Bayou Cassotte yesterday as well, one at Midstream Fuel Services' dock (MSRC has a facility at or near there too) and one at the Port of Pascagoula Dock. They were gone this morning.
 

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Here are the frequencies:

REPEATER 86: Output=157.30625 MHz Input=161.90625 MHz
REPEATER 88: Output=157.33125 MHz Input=161.93125 MHz

Narrow Band Frequency Modulation. 6.25 KHz frequency split.
 

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for what its worth

we are getting some comms via e skip up here in wisconsin from the spill on 25.18 and 25.16 fm.all boats off shore with oil booms.
 
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