Sunday Aug. 3rd 2008 Low Band DX Booming!

[RayAir]

Monitored from S.E Lower Michigan.
Note: I was even receiving VHF-High band from hundreds of miles away!
Low Band Log:
1640 Eastern:
33.940- tone out "company 20 respond for an automatic fire alarm"
35.160- voice spanish
33.240- voice spanish
33.820- voice
33.880- station calling rescue 57
33.820- 141.3PL tone out for a medical
1655: 39.040- KBT 576 Maryland State Police, Anne Arundel County, Central Region dispatching a BOL for a gray BMW
33.160- voice 77.0PL spanish (phones heard ringing in back ground)
39.640- key up
39.980- key-up
39.040-" go ahead with traffic"
29.620- 10 meter repeater in upstate NY. Heard stations from Ohio,NY,NJ and South Carolina. Station calling from ohio was hitting both the NY and NJ repeater and getting replies from both.
37.940- "go down and pick up from the office"
33.860- "AMR transport, calling chief"
35.960- voice
1708: 35.840- voice spanish 156.7PL
33.480- "sorry if we missed you"
35.880- key up
33.900- "unit you are broken up"
33.680- "engine 355 returning, 362 clear and returning
37.540- voice spanish
33.940- 114.8PL "calling 827 for a fight in the graveyard behind the old fire station"
1716: 33.680- "engine 355 in quarters"
33.540- Ambulance 97 returning to station, engine 95 responding
33.660- voice, weak
33.940- "Attn. all Jordan personnel" Jordan Fire Dept. in Conneticut
35.740- voice spanish
35.920 110.9PL voice spanish
35.820- voice spanish
33.620 114.8PL "station requires coverage, 1st call (NY/NJ accent)
33.080- possible tone out or paging
33.780- "rescue 29, 2nd call for 3 firefighters"
37.540- 131.8PL "transformer on the pole"
1800: 39.980- Custer County, Nebraska -" Custer County ambulance respond to the Golden Living Center for a female p/t transfer"
2004: 39.960- tone out "pager test at 1904"
35.680- paging
Continued__

 

[RayAir]

Sunday Aug 3rd Low Band DX Pt.2

2005hrs:
39.900- Custer County , Nebraska Rural FD Storm Spotters Statewide- tone out- NWS issued a Severe thunderstorm Watch until 2am
33.860- voice
33.820- Lancaster, PA "Old Fire Channel"- tone out "Attention Lancaster fire respond to North Reservoir St"
33.940- "24 en-route at 2010, engine 7 calling Clear Springs Rd. command" (receiving multiple agencies)
39.280- 110.9PL voice weak
39.220- Morris County Sheriffs Dept., New Jersey- paging Morris County EMS 107.2PL
2015hrs: 33.860- "utility 2 arriving at 1915"
33.640- voice, something about medication
42.860- voice
42.460- voice
48.560- data sounds
46.460- voice
33.680- "respond to Mayflower Apartments, bldg. 2 apt. 4"
33.540- "7's available"
33.640- "back in headquarters"
33.880- "at exit 89"
33.860- "engine 30 copy"
2031hrs:
33.580- 114.8PL "on location"
33.680- "HQ has the call for 3 firefighters for coverage, 361 en-route , tone-out 114.8PL
42.480 - "en-route"
33.940 - unit saying en-route to hospital w/ starting mileage
42.280 - voice
33.580- "unit 6 to unit 3"
39.900 - "unit calling, young child difficulty breathing"
33.860- "44 in quarters"
35.160- voice spanish
35.920- voice spanish
35.280- 74.4PL voice spanish
33.240- voice spanish
33.680- "on scene extricating patient, unsure on man power" 127.3PL, Northridge(?) Fire dispatching for a report of an outside fire (poss. multiple departments being heard)
33.940- "you're at the hospital"
33.640- "let PD know when you're going to be out"
2043hrs:
35.640- possible telephone patch/paging: heard DTMF, beeps, then a hang up sound.
40.530- data sounds
33.460- tone out "vehicle accident"
33.900- "we are with ALS"
42.460- voice, police communications
33.640- unit advising " we will need security"
33.800- "en-route vehicle fire", and then a "difficulty breathing"
33.740- "162 responding"
39.040- voice, possible police
39.905- signal loud then fades, "valley 2 drive"
33.900- multiple tone-outs for units 510-2,510-1,592, Medic 778 Class3. This is the Stratford Fire Dept. cross-patch/ Connecticut
33.020- sounds like a trunking control channel
33.880- strong signal "start medic 31 please"
33.440- key up

A great day for some low band DX!!