[SMCARA] SMECO Power Outages

[Christopher Olson]

They typically use their mobile CAD system for communications BUT on accasions they will use 158.145, you just have to be by your HT at the right time. They will be switching to DMR in the near future. 

Christopher M. Olson Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android 
 
  On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Mike Hasel<mhasel at locustplainsfarm.com> wrote:   158.220 is also an old frequency that I sometimes can still hear dispatch operations on another option is their web site or smartphone app they have a pretty detailed and near real time outage map for the somd areas they service

Hope this helps and I know it still isn't as cool as listening on the radio I miss that too

73s
Mike
N3KUN

> On Aug 8, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Jim <wieldtjr at md.metrocast.net> wrote:
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> We had our power off for about 2 hours Saturday night.  I went to the effort of calling it in when it first went off as is our duty as users.  As is my usual thing, I lay awake wondering when I should get dressed and go out and fire up my generator since It is there for a reason.  Mostly to keep refrigerators and freezers going.  Since I am in the dark (pun intended) about the status of the outage, my mind turned in another direction and I wondered if I could listen in on their work crew radio traffic.
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> When the power came back on, I looked up their radio station and they operate on 158.145 Mhz.  I can dial in that frequency  on my Yaesu FT-60R and did so and have left it on to listen in.
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> Either my HT is kidding me about what I can and can’t do or possibly SMECO’s comm encrypted.  My HT gets the whole 2m and 70cm bands as well as the weather channels which are several Mhz higher in the low 160’.
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> Anyone have any ideas.  I guess I could call SMECO and ask but that would be tacky.  I will go with the notion that it is encrypted which would also serve to prevent interlopers from asking the repair crews questions.  
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> Jim  KC3WJA
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