[FedCom] New Postal Service Freqs Springfield MA

Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:31:31 -0500

Bill:
Basically I did a 1/2 hour search of the frequency ranges and didn't hear
166.20 .. at least being used as a base simplex, but again my antenna setup
is limited so it might be an input to one of the repeaters.

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "*Bill" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Larry Van Horn" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: [FedCom] New Postal Service Freqs Springfield MA

> Interesting Ken.
>
> They used to use 166.2000 Mhz, do they still use it
> or is this an entire new Allocation?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Windyka" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Larry Van Horn" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 16:43
> Subject: [FedCom] New Postal Service Freqs Springfield MA
>
>
> > Was getting some inteference close to the FAA VHF freq so put the
scanner
> in
> > the search mode, discovering the following:
> >
> > 166.1625 Repeater (CTCSS 114.8)  --  Bulk Mail Sorting Facility
> > Springfield -- Outside Yard Operations (e.g. moving trailers to various
> > loading doors.
> >
> > 164.3875 Repeater (CTCSS 110.9)  -- Bulk Mail Sorting Facility
> > pringfield  -- Inside Operations (e.g. repair of mail sorting machines).
> >
> > VERY Boring activity to monitor!!!!
> >
> > Grove's Federal Frequency Dircectory indicated that no activity had been
> > heard on these frequencies.  Apparently USPS is using at least at this
> > facility.
> >
> > They use to use 171.2625 Repeater as primary operations along with
162.225
> > simplex... in the 30 minutes that I search the band I didn't get any
hits
> on
> > these freqs but perhaps they are the inputs for the new repeaters.
> >
> > Ken
> > Springfield MA Monitoring Area
> >
> >
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