Tremendous Band opening tonight (07/31/08)

[n0lqt]

Sitting here playing with the radios and I came across a P-25 system I wasn't familiar with.

System ID : 140
System Name : Illinois State STARCOM21 St Clair County
WACN : BEE00
Tower Number (Decimal): 307
Tower Number (Hex) : T0307
Tower Description : (null)
Control Capabilities : Voice,Registration
Call Sign(s) :
Timestamp : Thu Jul 31 22:13:12 2008

-Frequencies
#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency,Input Frequency
"00-1313","v",859.21250,814.21250
"00-2459","v",866.37500,821.37500
"00-2543","c",866.90000,821.90000
"00-2627","a",867.42500,822.42500

-Neighbors
#Format: TowerID,TowerIDHex,System ID,Channel,Frequency,Tower Name
306,"T0306",140,"00-2699",867.87500,""
312,"T030C",140,"01-2084",775.03125,""
324,"T0318",140,"01-2006",774.54375,""
352,"T0334",140,"00-2549",866.93750,""
355,"T0337",140,"00-2539",866.87500,""
356,"T0338",140,"00-2535",866.85000,""

Just over 400 miles from my location! Not too bad of a UHF duct.....
A bit later I started picking up traffic off of Tower 234 of the Star System from just north of Matoon, IL or about 500 miles away....