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Nightlinks
Junior Member Username: Nightlinks
Post Number: 46 Registered: 1-2009
| Posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 5:58 am: |
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Hello, I have been checking the mail on channel 19 for the pass 3 weeks and started wondering if highway patrols listen to channel 19? CEF#1021
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Tech808
Moderator Username: Tech808
Post Number: 16749 Registered: 8-2002
| Posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 6:24 am: |
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Nightlinks, Most State Police if they still have CB's in the vechiles will monitor "Challel "9" the Emergency Channel for emergencies or road side assistance. Lon ~ Tech808 N9CEF ~ EN50mk
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Dale
Senior Member Username: Dale
Post Number: 1454 Registered: 12-2002
| Posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:06 am: |
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from the size of thier antennas i think they might be on 2 meters or 440.thier antennas are way too short for cb.but if they did use cb probaly would use ch.9 dale/a.k.a.hotrod cef426 cvc#64
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Tech237
Moderator Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1137 Registered: 4-2004
| Posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 11:18 am: |
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Dale - their are not on 2m or 70cm. In fact one Police Dept recently got busted and fined for illegal use of the 2m ham band. Here, they monitor 17, 19 and ch 9. Remember to monitor you do not need a resonant antenna. yes one may help, but it isn't required. Simon Tech237 N7AUS
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Moderator136
Moderator Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 1422 Registered: 4-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 1:25 pm: |
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Yes they monitor CH 19 and CH 9 , Thats is local Police and Sheriff not shur about State police? But allmost bet they do also! Thats good news if you need help.. Hal~Moderator136~KCØSVC CEF#0136/CEF HAM#23 ~ CVC#0004
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Dale
Senior Member Username: Dale
Post Number: 1455 Registered: 12-2002
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 12:02 pm: |
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well yea they can monitor 11meter. but i do pick them up on my police scanner on 446.?and thier txing there.this is from a couple different towns using close to the 446.?freqs.legal or not this is what ive monitored on my scanner dale/a.k.a.hotrod cef426 cvc#64
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Revpo
Intermediate Member Username: Revpo
Post Number: 468 Registered: 7-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 2:04 pm: |
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MOST are going to 800 mhz trunking sysytem, 446 band is becoming obsolete for law enforcement... CEF795 73 REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795 Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Tech237
Moderator Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1138 Registered: 4-2004
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 12:27 pm: |
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Dale then one of two things is happening. 1) they are running illegal and need to be reported to FCC - along with dates times and any ids,location etc, or 2) your scanner is picking up an image frequency. Have somebody else check with a different type of receiver and if they get it too, try to record the transmissions, so that can also be passed onto FCC.Send a copy to ARRL as well. Simon Tech237 N7AUS
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Nightlinks
Member Username: Nightlinks
Post Number: 51 Registered: 1-2009
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 6:41 pm: |
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I saw a video on youtube where the police were chatting ilegally and someone recorded them and turned them into the FCC and they were forced to remove the radios from their vehicles. CEF#1021
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Sitm
Intermediate Member Username: Sitm
Post Number: 242 Registered: 1-2004
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 - 2:26 pm: |
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I don't know about anywhere else, but my family works for State police and local county sheriff. They don't and haven't had cb equipment in their units for years and years and probably don't care. They have dozens of different frequencies to monitor and listening to trucker dribble would be very difficult. |
Test_bot
Junior Member Username: Test_bot
Post Number: 30 Registered: 3-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 12:02 am: |
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D.O.T. In Massachusetts Does... And they have Rigs pulled over all day long..... Unmarked SUV's with a CB Antenna on the Front fender or roof. Usually sit on the CT MA Border of Highway 91. |
Triplecguy
Intermediate Member Username: Triplecguy
Post Number: 247 Registered: 12-2001
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 11:28 am: |
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Here in Colorado the State patrol has been on 800 DTR for years and now the rest of the public safety agencies are joining them. Virtually all VHF and UHF will be gone within 1 to 2 years. As I am a technician for one of the companies that is involved with this change over, I see all vehicles from all agencies. Needless to say, not very many CB's are used, but there are a few. A couple of Sheriff Deputies and K9 units have them in their vehicles and told me they actually use them to catch drunk drivers. I think in some of the real rural areas of our county people may use them to communicate with each other and avoid DUI stops and things like that. The State Patrol uses them on special task force vehicles but not on regular marked units. I believe that most agencies will allow an officer to install one on their vehicle if they want to as long as they purchase it and install it themselves. But every time I have turned one of these CB's on in a vehicle, they are always on channel 19. By the way, all of the CB's I have seen in a law enforcement vehicle have been the little cheap 40 dollar-buy it at the auto parts store-kind. DAN Dan N0RAD/Colorado 813 "Guns, Knives, and Jesus Christ"
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Nightlinks
Member Username: Nightlinks
Post Number: 74 Registered: 1-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 10:11 am: |
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I'm not sure if this was real or not but yesterday night here in the bronx. Someone in channel 19 said he was from NYPD and told someone to pull over. CEF#1021
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Stepchild
Intermediate Member Username: Stepchild
Post Number: 204 Registered: 11-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 5:43 pm: |
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In Arkansas very few state police use cb but ALL D.O.T. HWY police do have them in the cruiser but weather or not they use them...Some do some don't. I drive a log truck and we get checked quite often for weight and permits and they usually have it on but turned down. Everyone of them are Uniden 510xl's. Stepchild CEF-187
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Ironmike
New member Username: Ironmike
Post Number: 7 Registered: 6-2007
| Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 2:30 pm: |
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Tennessee Highway Patrol has them... I have listened to them joke on TAC channels about what they hear on 19... |