[FedCom] 150.7375 Philadelphia

[~Bill]

Yes, lots are now sharing the Federal Bands, Maine will be Next to begin
using Federal, altho in the 162-174 region.
And these are all Coordinated and licensed thru the FCC as well.

Doing an FCC Search, there is Nothing Nationwide between 150.7250 and
150.7450

However that 2nd posting said SkyWarn which is Amateur Radio, so definitely
not that one.

If the OP can provide a Tone that might Help

Bill - N1KUG
Boston, Mass
Cruise Ship Frequencies
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-----Original Message-----
From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 5:27 PM
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
Subject: Re: [FedCom] 150.7375 Philadelphia

As are other states for their new statewide VHF systems. Here in Missouri,
the new VHF statewide P25 system, MOSWIN, is using frequencies once reserved
for federal use only. Here, I don't think I've seen any in the lower part of
the band but they are setting up shop near the top of the band on what once
were fed use only frequencies. I think in many cases, the feds enter into an
agreement where they are allowed use of the statewide system in exchange for
letting a state government use the frequency. No idea who funds the radios
in those cases though and I'd imagine that varies by state. It makes a lot
of sense as the feds have a LOT of VHF assignments that are never used in a
given area so why not let the states use those unused frequencies. Missouri
has also obtained permission to use certain frequencies in the VHF paging
band of 152 MHz. The licenses for the state sites on those frequencies will
not show up in a standard FCC search. I think the ones on the federal
frequencies do show up in a FCC search though.

Our counties (St. Louis County, MO) EMWIN broadcast used to be on a standard
UHF repeater output frequency (460.350 I think) but they shut that down
several years ago now unfortunately. I enjoyed decoding it and watching the
broadcasts come across although the local group that ran it did strip most
of the graphic products from the radio transmission. There were constant
radio problems as the radio was not designed for a 100% duty cycle which
EMWIN was pushing it. It also had a pretty good output power. Maybe as much
as 200 watts before the antenna. Don't really recall those details. I just
know it could be heard countywide with no problems even in the valleys.


At 02:39 PM 2/8/2013, you wrote:
>While fairly rare, local and state government use of the VHF LMR band 
>isn't without precedent.  Various county emergency management agencies 
>have obtained permission to use freqs in this band to rebroadcast EMWIN 
>weather data.  In addition, the State of Wisconsin is using freqs in 
>that band for their statewide WISCOM trunked system 
>http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=6364 .
>
>FWIW.....
>
>On 2/8/2013 11:00 AM, fedcom-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
>
>>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:05:41 -0500
>>From: "Larry Van Horn-N5FPW" <n5fpw at brmemc.net>
>>To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications"
>>         <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [FedCom] 150.7375 Philadelphia
>>Message-ID: <05FAD46D83334DFB9026096A2B20BA39 at LarryVanHornNC>
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>>         reply-type=original
>>
>>>if you do a google search it says that it could be used for skywarn 
>>>members in lehigh county
>>
>>If that is accurate (and I saw the same search you did without any 
>>attribution and 4 entries tied to the same site), I bet DoD isn't 
>>happy about that intrusion into their LMR band. ;-)
>>
>>73 de Larry
>>
>>Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
>>Brasstown, NC USA
>>MT Assistant/Review/Technical Editor
>>Milcom Monitoring Post http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
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