[TrunkCom] band conditiona this last weekend

[Jeff Kenyon]

I didn't try the ham bands, or hook my 96 up to another unit, but I have
to say, that this is the first Thanks Giving weekend that the bands are
like this.  What have others heard?  What MPSCS cites in Michigan did you
pick up?





On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Scott Berringer wrote:

> While out in the wee hours of the morning yesterday (Friday morning), I
> was out doing my paper route with my PRO-96 and stock duck antenna. I
> was able to pick up trunked system sites from Michigan, Ohio, Ontario,
> Canada, and even one site of the Indiana SAFE-T system from Pulaski County.
>
> Mind you, though, that I'm in Ashtabula County, Ohio (Extreme NE Ohio).
>
> While the PRO-96 was hooked up to my outdoor antenna, I was able to pick
> up several distant Ohio MARCS, Michigan MPSCS, Ontario, Canada Fleetnet
> sites. In addition, I even had 2 out of several known sites for the
> Toronto GO Transit system from Toronto Canada.
>
>
> Jeff Kenyon wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone, I don't know if I posted this earlier that the conditions
> > last night were so good on UHF and 800 MHz that with the Pro-96 I was not
> > only locking onto distant MPSCS cites in Central Michigan, but both the
> > Ingham and Clinton County EDACS systems were coming in clear as a bell
> > last night, and the control channels for both EDACS systems on UHF for
> > Ingham and 800 MHz for Clinton were quickly detected.  I've never had luck
> > like this with either system, and I'm just wondering what the rest of you
> > have heard?  Both systems were tracked with the Pro-96 as I said with the
> > 800 MHz RS Antenna.
> >
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