[FedCom] 168.4750

[Ben Russell]

168.475 is the output for the North Repeater at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.  The park is very long, trending north/south, and has two main repeaters.  The South Repeater output is 170.05.  Both repeaters have a huge footprint and can be heard many miles south of the park.  In fact, I've seen reception reports from people hearing the South Repeater as far south as Bucks County in Pennsylvania (northern metro Philly).

Traffic is simulcast on both repeaters.  There seems to be a large area of overlap where both repeaters can be monitored quite well.  Lots of traffic stops on the highway going through the park...a good revenue "stream" for the river park.  Sorry....


 
Ben R.


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: 168.4750 (Ty Logan)
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:44:44 -0700
From: Ty Logan <scaner_dude at juno.com>
Subject: Re: [FedCom] 168.4750
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More specifically, 168.475 is an NIFC frequency, labeled as Command
Channel #6. It's part of a nationwide cache of frequency's that are
typically used on a large incident, such as a wild land fire or during a
large scale search (such as the shuttle wreckage search). Typically the
use of these command freq's are temporary.

I find it interesting that P25 is now being reported on this frequency,
until now I haven't seen any reports of P25 being used on these
frequencies.


Ty Logan
scaner_dude






 
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