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Does anyone have any updated information on frequencies for Security at the various Dams?
Hearing traffic on 169.7125 NAC 418.
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Does anyone have any updated information on frequencies for Security at the various Dams?
Hearing traffic on 169.7125 NAC 418.
Thanks
Richard in WKY
I finally programmed all the TVA S&EM frequencies listed in the RRDB to see what was up. Seems to me that all the same frequencies are being used, just rotated around from before. I can hear the Pickwick, Tennessee repeater & the repeater in the Shoals Area of Alabama (can't remember it's name) and both are using frequencies that were used elsewhere before.
 

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I finally programmed all the TVA S&EM frequencies listed in the RRDB to see what was up. Seems to me that all the same frequencies are being used, just rotated around from before. I can hear the Pickwick, Tennessee repeater & the repeater in the Shoals Area of Alabama (can't remember it's name) and both are using frequencies that were used elsewhere before.
Thank you RadioJonD. Which frequency/NAC do you receive the Alabama repeater? Do you have enough information to update the RBDD?
 

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RadioJonD do you have any information on the frequencies and or tones for the sites you are monitoring?
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I've taken TVA S&EM out of primary banks. Had to remember to turn the other on and listen.


What I believe to be Wilson is 171.750 MHz with NAC 303

I'm not where I can hear Pickwick until this afternoon.
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I've taken TVA S&EM out of primary banks. Had to remember to turn the other on and listen.


What I believe to be Wilson is 171.750 MHz with NAC 303

I'm not where I can hear Pickwick until this afternoon.

Finally! TVA S&EM Pickwick: 169.625 MHz with NAC 418

I live between Wilson (Colbert?) and Pickwick. As for other sites, I'll try to remember to listen to S&EM when travelling.
 

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Thank you.
Curious about frequency 169.7125 with NAC 418
TVA may well have added frequencies to the mix. S&EM traffic consists of 500 series units talking to "Chattanooga" and/or "Knoxville."

Numbered call signs for the two Com Centers were dropped in favor of origin City. When I worked in the now closed Muscle Shoals Com Center, we were "500."
 

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TVA may well have added frequencies to the mix. S&EM traffic consists of 500 series units talking to "Chattanooga" and/or "Knoxville."

Numbered call signs for the two Com Centers were dropped in favor of origin City. When I worked in the now closed Muscle Shoals Com Center, we were "500."
I have a family member that retired from maintenance at Browns Ferry
 

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Has anyone considered checking government allocated frequencies for TVA or are we all concerned with a knock on the door? The LST-325 locked through Wilson yesterday and I never even knew it was en route.
 

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Has anyone considered checking government allocated frequencies for TVA or are we all concerned with a knock on the door? The LST-325 locked through Wilson yesterday and I never even knew it was en route.

Though TVA owns dams along the Tennessee & Cumberland Rivers, the US Army Corp of Engineers is tasked to operate the locks.

LST-325 would have called the lock on Marine Band Channel 16 (156.800 MHz) upon approach to Wilson Dam. Most likely, the Wilson Lock Master then directed LST-325 to an alternate channel. If memory serves, that would be Marine Band Channel 13 (156.650 MHz) for Wilson Lock.

I tracked LST-325 movement here.
 

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Has anyone considered checking government allocated frequencies for TVA or are we all concerned with a knock on the door? The LST-325 locked through Wilson yesterday and I never even knew it was en route.
 
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