San Angelo, Tom Green County

[KG5HHS]

Hello Everyone,
Not sure why the previous thread was closed. In post 59 I mentioned 155.9100 with a NAC of 293 was encrypted. I can confirm that is still the case as of today, I set the scanner on record and picked up about 80 hits. I have looked and can not find a valid license for this frequency. The only license I can find is for KWM606 for the city of San Angelo in the public safety pool (Conventional) that was cancelled on 09/26/2012. Does anyone have any idea what this frequency is?

 

[nd5y]

Are you sure it's local?
Are you sure it's not one of the 7.5 kHz adjacent channels 155.9025 or 155.9175?

 

[KG5HHS]

The only closest license for 155.9100 is for the city of midland. I'm not saying that it couldn't happen but I highly doubt it as I'm monitoring this with a bcd436hp on my office desk at home.

 

[n5rv]

Like you John, I come up with nothing in the FCC database. Way back when this was the second dispatch channel repeater input (mobile transmit) if I recall, 155.31 being the repeater output. I could have that backwards. I used to maintain those repeaters when they were at the Western tower on 26th street. This was back in the early 80's.....

 

[KG5HHS]

Like you John, I come up with nothing in the FCC database. Way back when this was the second dispatch channel repeater input (mobile transmit) if I recall, 155.31 being the repeater output. I could have that backwards. I used to maintain those repeaters when they were at the Western tower on 26th street. This was back in the early 80's.....

I was wondering if this was the case. I remember seeing a list of three SAPD VHF frequencies at some point. I tried googling, but couldn't find those either. I want to say I was told they used to use EF Johnson radio's back in that time.

 

[nd5y]

The only closest license for 155.9100 is for the city of midland. I'm not saying that it couldn't happen but I highly doubt it as I'm monitoring this with a bcd436hp on my office desk at home.

How strong is it? What time of day? Can you hear it all the time? Was there a tropo opening when you heard it?
It's not unusual for me to be able to receive stuff with an indoor antenna from over 100 miles away at times.

It might also be an image from military or federal users in the 138-150 or 162-174 range. I don't know how bad the 436 is about receiving images from extremely strong local stations.

 

[KG5HHS]

How strong is it? What time of day? Can you hear it all the time? Was there a tropo opening when you heard it?
It's not unusual for me to be able to receive stuff with an indoor antenna from over 100 miles away at times.

This is not the first time I've heard it. I initially picked it up doing a search a while back and have monitored it a few times since to see if i could get a recording of the CW ident or anything that would give it away. I haven't just the NAC of 293, the garbled mess of noise and the infamous "ENC" on the screen. I put it on record just because I happen to remember it. I was pretty surprised to see close to 80 hits. I'm not sure about any openings.