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Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:09 pm
by sp1989
Lots of activity in the 33.00 range, just heard Venanago County, PA fire dispatch a medical aid, respiratory difficulty.
Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:34 pm
by retiredFD07
Heard Cattarugus County, NY dispatching the Cattaraugus ambulance today on 33.7.
<>< Mike
Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:50 pm
by sp1989
Hi, Mike! This is exciting to me, reminds me of when I lived in L.A. and LAFD was on low band VHF. No one uses that anymore in CA that I have heard, so it is a good indicator when skip is in.
Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:04 am
by retiredFD07
sp,
I can remember when low band skip was so good you couldn't make out one station from another, there were so many transmissions coming in at once.
I started my FD career as a volunteer in NJ in the 1960's. Most rural FD's were using low band then. When I moved to soCal in the 70's and the skip was in, I'd listen to 33.94 every night to see if I could hear their daily test (I usually could). It was quite a thrill one day to hear one of my friends responding to a fire back home, 2,500 miles away.
Skip conditions aren't what they used to be, but a lot of that is due to the fact that many of the low band users have transitioned to UHF trunking systems that are part of a regional dispatch.
<>< Mike
Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:42 pm
by retiredFD07
Got a few hits on the 33MHz search today. The only one I could ID was 33.9 Guernsey County FD, OHIO
<>< Mike
Re: Skip seems to be in....
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:32 pm
by retiredFD07
Hits today:
33.7 Cattaraugus County, NY (again).
33.78 Cumberland, MD
33.98 Perry County, OH
<>< Mike