Strange Activity on Ham Freqs (sounds like a power company)

[HarleyDave]

Sunday being part of field day, I was doing some ham scanning to get an idea of all the local repeaters, especialy the ones not listed on the different web sites. Amongst them, I hear activity that involves talk of "A blown transformer in wharton" the "Morristown readyness desk" "4248 to morristown" and some mention of a transformer fire in flanders. These are all local to the morris county area, BUT they were found on the following freqs....... (strong signal, loud and clear inside roxbury township full quieting!)

427.4125 - voice
428.4375 - voice
427.4375 - voice
428.45 - voice
428.5875 - voice
422.625 - voice
423.1375 - data stream
429.9375 - data stream
428.5875 - extreemly "quiet" data stream but full signal like rest
421.2375 - intermittent data signal, but nearly constant carrier

I have no idea what ive stumbled upon. This is right inside the 420-450 ham band, it is a 100% signal and doesnt have the "sound" that bleed over has, and i can get no signal like it on 900 mhz or above 450 mhz, which makes me think its not an overloaded front end.

 

[RocketNJ]

How close are you to Casa de Pasta? The tower there is for JCP&L.

Were you using a scanner or ham radio? It sounds like you are getting images of their 900 MHz transmissions. Try a different receiver if possible.

 

[HarleyDave]

Im close enough to see the lights on the tower, and to pick up the roxbury PD repeater without an antenna.

I used two different scanners, maybee it just overload them? I bet if I used a 465 MHz tuned GMRS antenna it will go away. Thanks for the heads up on the tower location, didnt realize they used that tower also.

 

[DaveH]

Are you sure they are ham frequencies? In Canada, 420-430MHz isn't ham anymore, it was given over to commercial use years ago. Some states along the border (NY for example) are also using it for commercial; Buffalo NY is one example (FD I think). Try running those frequencies through the FCC database.

Dave

 

[Al42]

According to current FCC data, 420-430MHz is allocated to radiolocation and amateur usage.