[Scan-DC] Med channel usage in Mont.county

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:16:06 +0000

Back in June I listened to the med channels and vhf hospital channels for a 
week in Montgomery County and heard nothing. I also never heard any med to 
hospital traffic on the 800mhz digital system either. I was starting to 
think that they are just using cellphones.

>From: Mike Agner <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Med channel usage in Mont.county
>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:36:32 -0400
>
>   I wouldn't be so quick to write off the use of these freqs; just looking
>at them for a hour or two isn't a good test of whether a freq is in use or
>not.  Park a scanner on these freqs and use a good tool like Scanner
>Recorder for a day or more, now *that's* checking a frequency.
>
>   It's a bit more challenging since it seems PG and Mont share the same 
>Med
>channel usage (and I have heard, albeit rarely, activity on these freqs).
>Since I work in PG, I'm assuming I'm hearing PG county activity, but I'm
>not familiar with the hospitals in this area to be absolutly sure.  Having
>both counties share the same channels would provide interoperability; more
>important now, since Mont has gone 800.  As a backup system (should the 800
>system failsoft out or crash altogether), it's way too valuable to lose.
>
>   Nonetheless, if we can get a definitive answer on this, and Mont has
>indeed left the Med channels behind, I'll see to it they're deleted from
>our page.
>
>   73s and thanx...Mike
>
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