Well, you really didn't want Open Sky anyway. PA's system is ohhh... about 10 years overdue and about 10 zillion over budget, oh, and I don't think half the state is on it yet.
But, I can count on two hands the users of Low Band in my area. In a year or two, that will be one hand when a local county moves off 46 MHz. Most of them are fire dispatch channels (and most of that due to the lack of trunked pagers), but there are a couple of bus companies still there. And of course of the activity that is still around, half of it is on the same frequency! I can't believe it would be as active as it was 20 years ago. I'm not talking 6M, but just 30-50 MHz excluding military, baby monitors, and ancient cordless phones. Joe M. Chuck Kelsey wrote: > Maybe some places, but low band is every bit as alive here right now as it > was 20 years ago. Very difficult to get a high or UHF frequency here for > public safety. The big push to go to a 700/800 digital statewide system here > went flop. > > Chuck > WB2EDV > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MCH" <m...@nb.net> > To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:39 PM > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] ARRL Approves Study Committee to Research & > Develop Plan for Narrowband Channel Spacing > > >> I'm not sure there is! >> >> With everyone going to trunked systems, and with businesses going to >> Cellular or similar, there are a lot of repeater pairs and channels >> opening up in the VHF/UHF bands. And Low Band is becoming a ghost town. >> >> Joe M. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.38/2274 - Release Date: 07/31/09 > 05:58:00 >
