VHF Band Opening:Fri 6/29/12

[W9NES]

Did anyone hear the VHF Band opening on Fri around 8:00PM? VHF on 154 and 155 were open.I was hearing distant fire departments including City of Chicago on 154.130.Also 2 meter ham band was also open. Was hearing repeaters in Ohio and also working a lot of openings on 146.520 simplex.Also FM broadcast band from 88-107.9Mhz FM was also open.

 

[FFPM571]

I heard some Repearter outputs from Indiana on 154.145 146.2 over the Ducomm Fire 154.415 145. is the input to their repeater

 

[Daniel]

Happen to check the VHF Propagation Map right after storm went through and saw the conditions. Heard Wauseon,Ohio's 147.195 Repeater fullscale in house on HT with aluminum siding! Unfortunately too busy with storm cleanup to take the time to work anybody.

 

[W9NES]

I heard 155.595 for Cook County, IL Police last nigh Fri 6-29-12t.Also heard Ft.Knox Ky Fire on 154.400.and Jefferson County,KY Police on 155.580.

 

[k9ksb]

I am still hearing depts from southern indiana that I have never heard before and we had police traffic on 154.9800 last night on our fire pagers kinda neat to hear different depts but the police traffic kinda was anoying

 

[W9NES]

On Sunday 7-1-12 at 02:00AM I head Wells County EMS on 154.175.

 

[Anon6083]

I believe I heard Plainfield, IN fire from the south east side of Fort Wayne during this opening. I was rather shocked.

 

[W9NES]

parall4x, Did you hear Chicago fire repeater on 154.130? This is the same frequency that Plainfield fire uses for fire pagers in Hendricks County..

 

[caylorman]

The skip was pretty epic from Fort Wayne after the storm blew threw. Was hearing a Skywarn station from Chicago on my HT, but the best was picking up the Norfolk Southern Clinch Valley Dispatcher out of SW Virginia on my scanner and antenna mounted at 20'. That's my longest skip reception heard to date.

 

[W9NES]

Wed 7-4-12 9:00 AM was hearing Newton County Sheriff on 155.070 repeater.Deputy was making a traffic stop on US 30 near the Newton/Lake County line.

 

[W9NES]

7-5-12 Thurs Got a band opening on VHF.Hearing 155.250 and 155.535 with Motorolla TBRO.Does anyone know who this would be ?

 

[GTO_04]

7-5-12 Thurs Got a band opening on VHF.Hearing 155.250 and 155.535 with Motorolla TBRO.Does anyone know who this would be ?

Edgar Co. IL?

GTO_04

 

[usswood]

Edgar Co. IL?

GTO_04

Yep and the other one is Wayne County Sheriff's
Department

 

[W9NES]

Wayne Couny IL Sheriff's Dept?

 

[hoaks96]

I was hearing police traffic on our street departments frequency of 155.100mhz

 

[wingmaker]

W9NES i had some major skip alot lately but there is no US 30 near the newton/lake line rt 10 and 41 or 65 and 10 witch is actually Jasper US 30 is in the northern part of lake county and goes on for a while east through porter and farther that is by schererville, dyer hobart merrillville it is very awesome to hear far away skip traffic. Love and Blessings