[Scan-DC] Pike Electric of Mt. Airy NC Utility Crew

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:37:35 -0400

FWIW, I think Asphlundh is on low band - trux I've seen have 108" whips.

Doug

>From: "RICHARD ROWLAND" <[email protected]>
>To: "Shawnerz" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Pike Electric of Mt. Airy NC Utility Crew
>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:33:58 -0400
>
>In this and past emergencies I have found that a Virginia Power employee 
>will in most cases accompany
>an out of state or non-Va pwr crew to for safety reasons to verify open and 
>closed circuits for the lines nearby.
>I have never identified a radio use with ASPLUNDH.
>Richard Rowland, Richmond VA
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Shawnerz
>   To: [email protected]
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:46 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Pike Electric of Mt. Airy NC Utility Crew
>
>
>   I passed their trucks on Thursday evening as I was
>   going home, northbound on I-270 and then west on I-70.
>    They, of course, were coming East on I-70 and South
>   on I-270.
>   I was impressed by the amount of trucks.
>   I wondered about who has to worry about radio
>   inter-operability when a power company comes to a
>   different area.  Do they use the "hosts" radio
>   frequencies or do they use their own on a non
>   interferring basis or itenerant freqs?  Or, does the
>   host just basically, throw them a handheld and that's
>   what they get?
>
>   On Wednesday evening, I passed a large convoy on
>   ASPLUNDH (sp?) trucks.  For a private company, they
>   sure had A LOT (around 150 +crews) to spare for the
>   hurricane.
>   What does ASPLUNDH use for frequencies and radios?
>   Thanks,
>   -Shawn
>
>   --- [email protected] wrote:
>   >
>   >
>   > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:56:40 -0400 [email protected]
>   > writes:
>   > > A Pike Electric utility crew is now working on
>   > power lines in central
>   > > Alexandria. Mt. Airy is in Surry County.
>   > > Gullfoss
>   > > shows that Pike Electric has the call sign KCZ795
>   > for service type
>   > > IG.
>   >
>   > Scrolling further (and, yes, I should know to do
>   > that before posting), I
>   > see Pike Electric also has call signs WPTF384,
>   > WNFM258 , and  WNFE468
>   > in addition to  KCZ795.
>   >
>   > Let's see what's there:
>   >
>   > WPTF384
>   > 461.0375
>   > 461.0625
>   > 461.0875
>   > 461.1125
>   > 461.1375
>   > 461.1625
>   > 461.1875
>   > 461.2125
>   > 461.2375
>   > 461.2625
>   > 461.2875
>   > 461.3125
>   > 461.3375
>   > 466.3625
>   > 461.3625
>   >
>   > WNFM258
>   > 452.2
>   > 49.52
>   > 49.54
>   > 49.58
>   >
>   > WNFE468
>   > 461.225
>   > 464.025
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