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Dan,

Pisgah National Forest (the Asheville, N.C. area) also uses 168.725, with a 
tone of 103.5 Hz.  In this case, they are referring to Clingman's Peak, which 
is adjacent to Mount Mitchell(Yancey County).  Clingman's Peak is one of four 
(?) repeater sites on the frequency at Pisgah.

This site is easily heard at my location (south of Charlotte).  I presume you 
are in the Winston-Salem, N.C. area, based on your screen name.  If you are 
using an outdoor antenna, I would expect that you should be able to hear the 
Pisgah channel easily ... the I-40 corridor provides a nice pathway for VHF and 
UHF signals east and westbound.

A couple of other signals originating from the same area:
- 145.190 amateur radio repeater on Mount Mitchell
- 159.285 N.C. Wildlife repeater (Raleigh dispatch uses 186.2 Hz tone, 
mobiles use 210.7)
- 167.175 Blue Ridge Parkway repeater (one of several sites)

According to my information, both Pisgah and Uwharrie use 172.225 MHz as 
their repeater inputs.  I have logged 103.5 and 110.9 Hz as input tones for two of 
the Pisgah inputs.

I don't know how many repeater sites are used at Uwharrie, and if each site 
uses a different input tone there.

Pisgah and Uwharrie N.F. are close enough to each other that, if they were 
using the same freq and tone at a site in each N.F., communications from one 
national forest could make it into the other's repeater during a band enhancement.

Jeff Multer
Fort Mill, S.C.

>>  This weekend I was monitoring 168.725  the Uwharrie NF main OPS 
frequency.  I heard a unit ID itself as 5329 calling a three digit unit.  5329 stated 
that he was calling on "Clingman". 

>>  The signal was full quieting so I presume I heard the signal thru the 
Uwharrrie NF repeater.  Clingman's Dome is the location of the NPS 167.150 
repeater and  is along the NC-TN is over 100 miles away. Any signal from there would 
not be full quieting at my location.

>>  Has USFS linked Clingman and Uwharrie? or did someone just pick the wrong 
frequency?