[Scan-DC] BLUE KNOB INCIDENT & FREQUENCIES

[James Richardson]

And 155.340 is the national HEAR frequency for ambulance to hospital. 

Jim< 

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[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Charley Armstrong
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:16 PM
To: johnson at cpcug.org
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Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] BLUE KNOB INCIDENT & FREQUENCIES

154.340 is a common EMS unit-to-hospital channel.

CA
Annapolis

On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:41 PM, johnson at cpcug.org wrote:

> Opportunities to scan, unfortunately, usually occur when something is
> wrong and this morning at Blue Knob, near Bedford, PA, was no exception. 
> At approx 1000 the uphill wheel bearing for one of the guide wheels on
> lift 1, pylon 18 decided to die stranding a number of skiers on the lift.
> 
> Very quickly the repair guys were able to replace the wheel in the near
> blizzard conditions (is there any other time such things occur?).  At
> first there was much discussion about trying to evacuate all the skiers
> but eventually the ski patrol decided to run the lift and offload the
> skiers at the top.  Once this was done a repair crew with a cherry picker
> on a snocat moved in, lifted the cable off the wheel, yanked the bad wheel
> and, after finding the first replacement wheel was not good, got a second
> wheel and repaired the lift.  After testing, the wheel ran as it should.
> 
> Actually it was very easy to do but in the very windy, near blizzard
> conditions I had a lot of sympathy for the repairman about 15' off the
> ground replacing the wheel without, at times, any gloves.  Temperatures
> were not very cold, only a few degrees below freezing, but the very strong
> wind created a severe wind chill.
> 
> In the meantime I double checked the published frequencies for Blue Knob
> ski patrol.  During the repair the patrolmen were instructed to use
> another frequency which allowed me to update and confirm what I had. 
> Channel 1 is 154.5400 [77.0?] and Channel 2, the usual patrol frequency,
> is 155.2800 [77.0].  I also have 154.34 from a non-FCC database but
> observed no activity and 155.2200 from the same non-FCC source is an
> Altoona EMS frequency and presume Blue Knob may use it to talk in any
> required ambulances.  I confirmed the CTSS of 77.0 for Channel 2, but did
> not confirm it for Channel 1.
> 
> About one mile south of Bedford (10 miles south of Blue knob) is the
> swanky Bedford Springs Resort.  During season rooms are about $350/night. 
> We checked and prices are now $189/night in the off-season!  We were
> thinking of having dinner there but their earliest reservation opening was
> 9:30 p.m.  No thanks.  It is a place where if you ask you can't afford it.
> Just hand over the plastic.  Nonetheless, while we were there I caught
> their very active general frequency as 467.8500 but did not check for any
> CTSS.
> 
> Ralph Johnson
> 
> 
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