[TrunkCom] band conditiona this last weekend

Scott Berringer scanman at scanland.org
Sat Nov 25 20:47:53 EST 2006


I had the usual ones that I get a lot. 206, 106, 207, 202, 204, 20D.

The one that threw me off was 106 which is in Adrian, MI.


Jeff Kenyon wrote:

> 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?
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> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Scott Berringer wrote:
> 
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>>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.
>>
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>>Jeff Kenyon wrote:
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>>>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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