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Assaulter
Junior Member
Username: Assaulter
Post Number: 13
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 7:07 pm: | 
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Whats the difference in these two? I know one is HF and one is VHF, but what are the differences in purpose? |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1869
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 8:00 pm: |
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Hf is long range and VHF is local here in tampa we can hear LOTS of VHF and coast guard. |
Assaulter
Junior Member
Username: Assaulter
Post Number: 15
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 8:24 pm: |
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Ahh, so basically the same as HF vs HF on the ham bands. I've got a wideband rx in my 2 meter but I've never heard ANYTHING on the vhf around here. Seems like I would, since louisville is right on the Ohio River, and barges and such go down it all the time, not to mention all the boaters out here!
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Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1871
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2004 - 9:05 pm: |
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HF is SSB and VHF is FM but in louisville its not likely you'll hear much.
Now here on the gulf we hear LOTS of trafic in and out of tampa and the ports around here CH-16 is a common calling channel you can look it up and program it in. Your local boat dealer might know too. |
Dodgeman
Intermediate Member
Username: Dodgeman
Post Number: 101
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 6:08 pm: |
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Assaulter try Radio Shacks Police Call Frequency guide they should have them. I listen to them to I live down buy Brandenburg KY in Indiana.CEF178 |
Patzerozero
Intermediate Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 273
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 6:28 pm: |
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i love radio shacks police call freq guide. probably 75% of freqs for my area all services have been outdated for 5 yrs or more!!! my local police precinct has already gone from analog trunk tracking to digital apco trunk track system yrs ago, radio shack still lists the old vhf 156 mhz freqs, same w/other misc govt/law enforcement freqs, many others book lists marine/ferry/freight companies/airport/military, same freqs listed 10 yrs ago, have been gone for yrs. local FD's still use same freqs 36mhz though.
on the ball, that radio shack! |
Racer X (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 8:55 pm: |
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Police Call is generated from FCC records. The licenses for those frequencies are probably still active, so they're put into the publication.
I'd plug them in and listen to them just on the off chance that you'd hear something interesting. In my area the cool stuff isn't on the active frequencies, it's on the local government frequencies where the police chat when they're bored. I stuff those frequencies into one scanner while I have the actual police frequencies in another scanner. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1877
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 10:59 pm: |
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Here is a list of marine channels it is at least a idea of what is on there.
http://www.stormy.ca/perc/marinvhf.html |
Patzerozero
Intermediate Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 277
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 4:17 pm: |
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local fd's use 46 mhz oops.
anyway, racer, during spring brush fire season i'll let it scan some of the old freqs, never heard anything. one of these days i'm gonna have to part w/ $600 for a new scanner to replace my old $59 one. ouch. modern technology. |
Racer X (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 7:29 pm: |
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All of my scanners are older and don't do trunking either. Fortunately my local area isn't very population dense and the county control hasn't seen fit to use trunking for first responders. Given the terrain of my area they'd have to install many auxillary antenna sites to do even 450 MHz trunking. They currently have reception troubles in the 155 MHz repeaters and simplex frequencies and local fire companies still use VHF low band at 33 MHZ for just that reason. So I think I'm good for a while and I'll be able to use my trusty PRO 2004 and 3 PRO 2006's for a while longer. |
