[Scan-DC] MO COUNTY FAIR FREQS

[oldsdoug at hotmail.com]

Montgomery County Fire and Police were using some talkgroups on the 800-MHz Apco-25 digital system... I'll have to go to the radio and look it up... think on the fire side it's called 75-something... it's one of the "special event" or "major event" talkgroups or something like that.  

> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:09:33 -0400
> From: johnson at cpcug.org
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> CC:
> Subject: [Scan-DC] MO COUNTY FAIR FREQS
>
> Two years ago Dave Schoenberger submitted these frequencies he monitored
> at the Montgomery County Fair:
>
> 461.8125 [ d125]
> 463.5375 [ d364] Primary?
> 467.6875 [ 97.4] Parking
> 469.5000 [ 88.5]
>
> This year I plugged them into my scanner (Alinco DJ-X2000) to monitor
> while I was at the Fair last Saturday. I did not receive any hits with
> these frequencies but I ultimately found three others the Admin office
> used to talk to the gates and grandstand personnel and one used by the
> parking personnel from a static station behind Burlington Coat Factory
> with a 70 cm super sensitive five element beam and a Win Radio 1500e set
> up (one person asked me if I was connecting into the internet!).
>
> The three I found were:
>
> 467.7500 [110.9] Channel 5 (?)
> 467.8000 [136.5] Channel 3 (?)
> 467.8700 [?] Channel ?
>
> I tentatively assigned the channels as I caught the personnel referring to
> them as such. Even though there appears to be a minimum of five channels
> available, I received no hits I could ascribe to the missing channels.
> All monitored traffic I heard seemed confined to these three frequencies
> with Channel 3 the main admin channel. I suspect since these three
> frequencies are close to each other the 'missing' two frequencies would be
> relatively close but I never saw them on the spectrum analyzer.
>
> Using my Win-Radio 1500e to scan the 450 - 470 band I did not see any of
> Doug's frequencies active during my times available.
>
> The fourth frequency I registered was FRS Channel 12, 467.6625 which was
> used for parking control. As my scanner is set up for all the FRS
> frequencies, I was surprised I did not hear any general fair goers use the
> FRS for communications, e.g. families, groups.
>
> Any additions would be appreciated.
>
> Ralph Johnson
>
>
>
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