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

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:47:26 -0400

    The possibility of one out of state utility vehicle's frequencies
conflicting with another does exist, but the odds are favorable the
frequencies  won't be the same or will have different ctcss tones.
Because of the additional comm expense, I doubt other radios would be
installed to operatie on itinerant frequencies as the demand for their
assistance is infrequent and therefore not cost effective.  Host
provided HTs would not do the job.  For the unfortunates who use 800
mhz. SMR, all they do is use 800 mhz. simplex when out of their service
area.  Their simplex range would not be impressive.  My best guess is
that a utility out of stater would use his own low/high vhf/uhf
assigned frequencies simplex.  A few extended operations may include a
temporary repeater operation if licensed for nationwide operation which
is extremely unlikely for a state utility.  A private sector contractor
is a different matter.  Of course, they will be using other licensed low
vhf/high/uhf frequencies and are better prepared for these temporary
operations.

Shawnerz wrote:

> 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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