It appears to me that the NMSP District 11 dispatcher coordinates Socorro Co. Sheriffs as well as the various federal agencies in the area. Listening on 155.58000 picks up all of the dispatcher transmission but I don't hear any replies. I've tried in vain to scan for the reply frequency for weeks now. Any help in finding the frequency would be greatly appreciated.
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Mick
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Is there a chance they are using a duplex system where the mobiles answer on 155.685?
Here's the database:
New Mexico State Police Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Here's the database:
New Mexico State Police Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
I'm about 40-50 miles north of Socorro, but heard a mobile talking back to the dispatcher on 155.685 just last week (I don't listen that much to them because it's not in my neighborhood). Are you close enough to the mobiles to hear them directly with whatever radio/antenna setup you have?
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Could it be that they have a number of receivers, or a radio on scan and they are listening to the other agencies on the agencies' own frequencies and replying back on their primary? Scanning radios talking back to scanning radios?
Also, mobile radios are weaker and lower to the ground. You won't hear them for more than a few miles on a scanner, where the state police systems have very high receiver antennas and possibly voting receivers around their districts.
Also, mobile radios are weaker and lower to the ground. You won't hear them for more than a few miles on a scanner, where the state police systems have very high receiver antennas and possibly voting receivers around their districts.
As I recall they don't have repeaters as such. Rather, the SP has remote bases on mountain tops linked by microwave. When I lived in that area the two remote bases were located on Socorro Mountain and near Datil on Davenport Peak as I recall. That was the setup when I was administering special use permits on the Cibola National Forest, Magdalena Ranger District.
From my house located southwest of Magdalena at the base of Magdalena Mtn. I used to pick up the mobiles to about the Water Canyon/U.S. 60 intersection west to where the northern leg of the VLA crossed U.S. 60. That was with a BC-210 and a roof mounted ground plane. The dispatcher had a funny way of pronouncing "KRO 437." I never became accustomed to the calling unit giving their designator first, e.g. "Socorro, 107" when dispatch was calling 107.
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