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I have heard some traffic on 159.285 and 159.360. They are very clear with no static from the Menifee/Sun City area, seems like a repeater for the Fire Department or something like that...

Can anyone confirm what these are? Maybe I am just missing them in the database...

Those are the input frequencies for RRU-2 (151.175) and RRU-1 (151.385), respectively.

Oh! Thats why I was hearing Fire on them. Thanks for that fast reply!

I think I may have stumbled on a cool way to hear only the support 6 area dispatches. The pl tone used is 110.9 on freq 159.36 for all support 6 dispatches. The advantage is you hear only 27 stations tones instead of 95+
The downside is you can only hear the dispatch and cannot hear the units acknowledge the call, however this should not be such a big deal as long as one monitors support 6 freq 154.455

That will only work if Perris has the Elsinore Peak repeater selected. They don't always dispatch calls on the closest repeater, as most stations can hear more than one repeater. For example, they might include one of the CDF engines out of Station 10 in Elsinore to a veggie fire in Hemet, but they'll probably be dispatching on whichever repeater provides the best coverage to the majority of stations they're dispatching, and then you'll miss it.

I'm sure it's a typo, but Support 6 is 154.445, not 455.

It also comes in handy if you cannot hear a repeater. For example: I'm unable to copy RRU-1 Tone 6 very well so I program the input freq with the tone and that way don't miss anything.

Damn Brandon,

If you live close enough to Perris, thats a grat idea...

~Chad (318)

woahhhhh im a little confused...

I can pretty much see Elsinore Peak from my front yard here in Canyon Lake...

What would be the thing for me to do with the whole repeater thing...

The fire freqs I have programmed are the exact ones from this site but if I ever pick anything up it sounds realllllly bad. I pick up AMR dispatch really well.

As I was just writing that last sentence I picked up someone on RRU-2 talking about a helecopter CRYSTAL CLEAR. Odd, cause nothing ever comes in. The tone was 94.8

Conv,

As you know (or may not know) CalFire is able to switch transmitters/repeaters on different hill-tops in Riverside in an effort to get the strongest radio signal to the station and responding units of any particular call. Not all calls are dispatched off of Elsinore Peak. Sometimes you can hear a dispatch clearly, and other times all you hear is static or maybe you wont hear the dispatch at-all.

AMR may dispatch their 'AMR West' calls off Elsinore Peak all the time. That's probably why they always come in clear for you.

What I would do if I were you is use a base-station type external VHF antenna and mount it outside your house in such a way as to use as little feed-line (coax cable) and connectors as possible top get the antenna to the antenna jack on the scanner. This will greatly improve your reception.

As I said, use smallest amount of cable necessary to get the antenna to the scanner, and avoid using connectors. Long cable runs and excessive connector/adaptor use creates signal loss.

~Chad (318)