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Just to see if anyone knows any of these, here's a list of trunk groups that UNITRUNKER gave usage counts of 10+ over a two day period recently: 4560, 4592, 4624 10768, 10864, 11056 13040, 15568, 15610 20752, 20944, 21360 22512, 22544, 22800, 22864 23792, 23824, 24624, 24688 25040, 27984, 38464 Some...

You really shoot for publication at 640x400, or are these 'desized' versions of higher resolution originals?

It may have been too long since our trunking equipped firefighters have had to use the VHF simplex channels... Last night I heard a San Diego engine directed to communicate with an out of town engine on 'white 3'. After patiently explaining to him that white 3 was on the 'vhf radio', his next comeba...

Not CERTAIN they don't up the power, but I believe they use the same half watt power as FRS. They have the same intended very short range use, no more than a mile. I doubt they'd use more than 1 watt, bearing in mind all squads would have the same 14 channels, and they wouldn't want them covering to...

If you've ever wanted to have a nice graphical program to show line of sight, coverage, calculate path values, etc, etc, you can get one free at this website: http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html Program name is Radio Mobile, and the website shows you where to get full, free, downloadable digital ...

In case you find yourself catching more attention than usual as a news photographer, this could be why... Suspicious Activity at California Fire Stations Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:24:08 pm PDT A series of suspicious incidents at California fire stations: Video, photos taken at fire stations spark conc...

Not many findable licenses for these teams (some of which probably aren't licensed), but found a few: U1/U5: Precision Performance, 464.500, 464.550, 469.500, 469.550 U16: Ellstrom Manufacturing, 461.425, 463.800 U7: U 7 Racing, 466.975, 467.100 U8: U 8 Racing, 463.975, 464.225, 464.675 (May be U25 ...

Heard some traffic from the hydros today, got a few squelch codes. The boats have changed sponsors, etc, often lately, so things are moving around. The sponsoring organization is no longer the UHRA, but instead the ABRA, the American Boat Racing Association. ABRA is licensed for, nationwide: 461.200...

Just an additional radio bit regarding the Hydros, there's an article in this little company newsletter (from 1999) regarding use of radio networking from the boats to the pits to carry instrumentation telemetry. They note that the boat itself may not even HAVE visible instruments, because the drive...

Note: I haven't personally confirmed that the races are indeed this weekend, but here's a message from the socalscan Yahoo group, for what it's worth: ------ San Diego Mission Bay hydroplane races This weekend is the hydroplane races on Mission Bay, I was dusting off the frequency list from past yea...