Weird Frequency Split - Lancaster County

[Tommahawk]

Just curious if anyone else locally is using very weird splits...

Penn Township in Lancaster County has a output frequency of 156.015 PL 71.9, operating simplex which it has had for a very long time. They decided to place a repeater on the air and applied for and received their new input frequency of 166.250!!! I listened to the input and sure enough there it was. Over 10mhz split between the two vhf frequencies.

Did the FCC screw up, or is this standard now to have a "Non-standard" frequency split?

Refernence: FCC Callsign WYG415 Details

 

[saber2k5]

There is no standard freq split on VHF, and never has been.

 

[CommJunkie]

Yea, they'll pretty much pick a freq that's not used widely in the area and give it to you, since they didn't apply for 2 freqs at the same time.

 

[SCPD]

Weird Split 166.250 old fire allocation up there

There was an old FCC Rule that 170.150 and 166.2500 ,which are normally radio/tv remote pickup channels, were allocated to fire dept use in the Philly/New York Area. I worked at a TV station in Florence SC with a base antenna on 170.150 at 800ft and have hear the Philly area fire stuff back in the early 80s when the band was open.

So this is not ultra surprizing that 166.250 has been used as a fire channel up there. Check and see if anyone is using 170.150 around you for fire!

 

[Tommahawk]

I realize that there aren't any standard frequency splits... I "MISSPOKE", however over a 10Meg split seems a little bit outrageous for a vhf frequency IMHO.....

 

[CommJunkie]

My county has 170.150 licensed but as long as I've had it in my scanner I've never heard anything on it. We use a 500MHz system anyway.

 

[jerry092975]

I do Know The Fire Repeater is 462.775MHz it Covers 33.72 / 33.60 / 33.64 / 33.52 / 33.68.....But i never heard of 166.250