VA STARS Reception in Chevy Chase MD

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Attempting to monitor VSP on the Arlington Site from Chevy Chase at Wisconsin & Western.
Cannot hear the Control Channel (152.5325) on any of several portables on the parking lot, or base radios with a rooftop antenna. Eight miles to the site from Chevy Chase.
I can hear the radio traffic from Hyattsville.
It seems there is something overloading the scanners. TV maybe? I can hear PG FD VHF 155.685. Any other ideas or experience??

 

[emtLarmy15]

Not knowing the site, but if the antenna is directional it’s very possible you won’t. My radio will lose some of our sites on our p25 system and I can see the tower, but the antenna is directional in the opposite direction. From 8 miles reception from this site would not be possible at all.

 

[maus92]

I did a quick FCC database check on the cch frequency, and it is not currently licensed in VA. I'm wondering how accurate the RRDB entry is wrt this system. The FCC call sign as listed in RRDB comes back to a pool of paging frequencies, and there are two other licences associated two other freqs in the site listing - both referencing a Columbia Pike tower...

 

[maus92]

FWIW, the RRBD entry for the Arlington site is more-or-less correct - I checked it out today when attempting to visit my brother in Bethesda. I was not able to receive the site (or the Fairfax site) in Md at River Road and the Beltway, nor in Tysons Corner by the mall. I was able to receive it in Arlington, and in SW DC.

 

[fredva]

Perhaps it operates at reduced power, to fill a gap where other towers don't reach?

 

[GMB951]

I monitor Stars every morning here in Cumberland co nc

 

[N4VKF]

Like the other responses. Probably reduced power or directional antennas for greater saturation inside the beltway in Northern Virginia but not across the river.

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[kg4icg]

Arlington is covered under the Fairfax Dispatch

 

[N4VKF]

Arlington is covered under the Fairfax Dispatch

That is correct. He was asking about the Arlington stars radio site

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