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ASRN for the painted tower is 1035128 .
Anyone in Beckley area with digital scanner?
Anyone in Beckley area with a digital scanner who could check for an active control channel of a new site?
The control channel would be on one of the frequencies below OR on a frequency between 454-455 mhz.
452.1000
453.5250
460.6375
460.6875
461.6375
462.1125
This is for a site right int he center of Beckley.
If active, the control channel would likely report RFSS 2, Site ID 031.
Thanks
Mike
Anyone in Beckley area with a digital scanner who could check for an active control channel of a new site?
The control channel would be on one of the frequencies below OR on a frequency between 454-455 mhz.
452.1000
453.5250
460.6375
460.6875
461.6375
462.1125
This is for a site right int he center of Beckley.
If active, the control channel would likely report RFSS 2, Site ID 031.
Thanks
Mike
RE: Glen Jean 2-037
We received a submission today suggesting that site 2-037 (which Jeff/wvscanner reported on back in June) was up at/near the Boy Scouts camp in Fayette.
FCC records for a new WVSIRN tower built this year have similar coordinates up near the camp. The submitter is from Fayette Co.
Based upon all of that and the site neighbors that Jeff had listed in his original post, I did add this as Glen Jean to the DB.
Although it would be useful if somebody [who can reliably monitor the control channel with Pro96com] would obtain a most recent list of the Site Neighbors as well as the frequencies associated with each of those site neighbors.
Any takers?
Thanks!
Mike
We received a submission today suggesting that site 2-037 (which Jeff/wvscanner reported on back in June) was up at/near the Boy Scouts camp in Fayette.
FCC records for a new WVSIRN tower built this year have similar coordinates up near the camp. The submitter is from Fayette Co.
Based upon all of that and the site neighbors that Jeff had listed in his original post, I did add this as Glen Jean to the DB.
Although it would be useful if somebody [who can reliably monitor the control channel with Pro96com] would obtain a most recent list of the Site Neighbors as well as the frequencies associated with each of those site neighbors.
Any takers?
Thanks!
Mike
Beckley SIRN Site
Mike there's a chance I might be down in the Beckley area tomorrow evening and if no one gets a chance to check for you before then I'll let you know something tomorrow night.
73s
Chad
Mike there's a chance I might be down in the Beckley area tomorrow evening and if no one gets a chance to check for you before then I'll let you know something tomorrow night.
73s
Chad
You're the man, Chad! As always. Not all of the freuqencies I listed above are actually licensed yet -- 3 or 4 are on a pending app. And of course we know that occasionally the SIRN volks use 450 Mhz paging frequencies in a pinch when they need to bring a site online which they do not have licensed FCC freqs for. So that's why I listed those above and also suggested scanning between 454-455 Mhz.
I'm confident that if hte site is online, it'll report as being site 031.
Mike
I'm gonna do a tune on each of those in a few moments just to see if I get a response....
Glen Jean is up now????
I got the control channel for glen jean in since it is nearby,I'll report if I get any hits on it....
Glen Jean is up now????
I got the control channel for glen jean in since it is nearby,I'll report if I get any hits on it....
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Beckley SIRN
Hey thanks Bert Mike and I will both appreciate it! If you report back that it's online I'll update my programming tonight by adding it and taking out Flat Top/Ghent. Yes Glen Jean is reported to be online.
73s
Chad
Hey thanks Bert Mike and I will both appreciate it! If you report back that it's online I'll update my programming tonight by adding it and taking out Flat Top/Ghent. Yes Glen Jean is reported to be online.
73s
Chad
Hi Bert. Yes, Glen Jean is up. It actually has been up since June -- Jeff (wvscanner) reported of its existence back then. But we didn't know exactly where hte site was. He just knew that there was an active site on a certain frequency claiming to be site 2-037.
Mike
2-030 Pax reports
2-001 Malden
2-008 Boone County
2-029 Kopperston
2-033 Ansted
2-037 Glen Jean
2-026 Alderson reports
2-025 Ghent
2-029 Kopperston
2-033 Ansted
2-037 Glen Jean
2-025 Flat Top reports
2-023 McComma
2-024 Bluefiled
2-026 Alderson
2-029 Kopperston
2-037 Glen Jean is weak on scanner but reports nac170
2-026 Alderson
2-029 Kopperston
2-030 Pax
2-033 Ansted
2-023 McComma reports
2-021 Welch
2-022 Caretta
2-024 Bluefield
2-025 Ghent
2-029 Kopperston
2-029 Kopperston reports
2-023 McComma
2-025 Ghent
2-026 Alderson
2-030 Pax
2-033 Ansted
2-037 Glen Jean
I just ran these thru the scanner and did a sweep on the freq. found not new sites. However, I have been getting someone on tg 5180. I have not got enough traffic to figure who is using it other to check to see how well it works. I hope this helps.
Driving up from Beckley to Oak Hill this is a low power tower. I think it starts to fade out around Oyler Ave. in Oak Hill and see some fade around 19 and Crossroads Mall. I can see 2 towers up near 19 by Glen Jean and the signal is at the strongest in that strip so I'm not sure if it is the tower to the west of 19 or east of 19.
2-007 Kenna
I was in a meeting today and Kenna will be up in the next day or so. I submitted the site and as soon as I can sleuth it I will put the CC and Altn CC in. The license should show anyday too.
I was in a meeting today and Kenna will be up in the next day or so. I submitted the site and as soon as I can sleuth it I will put the CC and Altn CC in. The license should show anyday too.
Chad,
IF you do the Glen Jean it is 454.050. I'm not sure how well it covers in Beckley even on 19 by the Mall if you leave off that road to a side road you will loose the freq. Another spot that will happen as well is the Go Mart on Maple Fork if you go more then 1/2 mile down the road away from 19 you loose the freq. But at GoMart the cc comes in strong.
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Hey Jeff I appreciate it. Was you able to get a control channel off Beckley? That's the one I really want since right in downtown the signals of Pax & Ghent/Flat Top is only marginal. I know that the Beckley Site will provide me the needed coverage there
73s
Chad
I did not see what the submitter sent. I did a sweep thru the freq. and did not hit on anything. I have seen them do this before when a site goes live it will run during the day for a few days and off during the night till it up all the way. Even running a lower power during these part of the phase. I will try to do a sweep every day for the next few days. I usually do one weekly.
Oh Ok If it's not online now it shouldn't be too much longer. That will be a nice site to have once it's operational. The Cottle/Craigsville Site will be also up here. It will provide coverage to the dead spots in Nicholas & Webster Counties.
73s
Chad
Jeff,
Thank you. Yes that helps. I updated the site neighbors for those sites you listed which didn't have the most up to date info.
I also changed "Beckley" to "Flat Top" -- since you referenced it as such, and apparently locals do as well. Plus, since there will be another Beckley online at some point I had wondered how we would differentiate.
If you agree that Flat Top is the appropriate name for the current Beckley site, then great. If not, you can change it back.
Appreciate the update. Looks like you're in a real nice location.
One note -- I know you said Glen Jean is weak -- keep an eye out on a day when it is coming in better though. In your original report from June it had reported a site neighbor of 027 as well. And we don't know what 027 is. And it might not have shown up in your monitoring tonight because of the weak signal. If it does show up in future ones, please get the frequency associated with site neighbor 027. I think you made note before that you suspected that 027 was White Sulphur Springs [likely based upon the same WVIRP doc i have], but knowing the frequency on that site neighbor would etch it in stone and allow us to add it to the DB even if we didn't monitor White Sulfur SPrings directly.
Mike
I have to much in priority with work for tomorrow. I will bring all scanner gear with me to work Monday or Tuesday and run a scan up there. With that I should get Ansted and better check with Glen Jean.
Yes Flat Top would be better. This tower is just on the other side of the ridge of Winter Place 1/4 mile. I never could understand why it was FCC label as Beckley when it about 17 miles south of Beckley
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