[Scanont] Digest Number 1552

From: scanont@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 00:20:27 EST


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There are 25 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Gentlemen! Thank you!
           From: "Bob Antonietti <bob_p_antonietti@yahoo.com>" <bob_p_antonietti@yahoo.com>
      2. simcoe cty ambulance
           From: "Jen <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca>" <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca>
      3. Re: simcoe cty ambulance
           From: "Kevin Plested" <kevin@warpzone.ca>
      4. canada.com Story
           From: <Champ@scanneraudio.com>
      5. Re: simcoe cty ambulance
           From: Steve Jones <sdjones@isys.ca>
      6. Re: simcoe cty ambulance
           From: "Kevin Plested" <kevin@warpzone.ca>
      7. Owen Sound PS
           From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
      8. Re: simcoe cty ambulance
           From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
      9. TV Show "24"
           From: "Sylvia Gallus" <sgallus@rogers.com>
     10. IMTS
           From: <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     11. Re: IMTS
           From: "Michael Fenech" <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
     12. Communications Operators-OPP Eastern Region Comm. Ctre.
           From: "Mike Ciupa <mciupa@excite.com>" <mciupa@excite.com>
     13. Re: IMTS
           From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
     14. Re: IMTS
           From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     15. Re: TV Show "24"
           From: "Len G. Carpenter" <Len.C@sympatico.ca>
     16. Re: IMTS
           From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
     17. Re: IMTS
           From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     18. Re: IMTS
           From: Arthur Shulman <dentist@nornet.on.ca>
     19. Re: IMTS
           From: Michael Fenech <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
     20. PRO 34
           From: "info" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     21. Re: IMTS
           From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     22. Re: IMTS
           From: Michael Fenech <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
     23. Re: IMTS
           From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
     24. PRP Simplex?
           From: Bryan <bryanpass@rogers.com>
     25. Re: PRP Simplex?
           From: "Sylvia Gallus" <sgallus@rogers.com>

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Message: 1
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:18:46 -0000
   From: "Bob Antonietti <bob_p_antonietti@yahoo.com>" <bob_p_antonietti@yahoo.com>
Subject: Gentlemen! Thank you!

Gentlemen (and Ladies)

Thank you so much for the much needed February blah smiles in some of
your recent postings.

I know that it's not the primary intent of this group to make someone
smirk/laugh/guffaw when reading postings or replies, but given that's
exactly what happened this grey morning while reading the
(sarcastic?) replies to the gentleman who was picking up a signal on
99.0 on his scanner, I couldn't help but use those infrequently used
muscles to pull a smile on my face. Some of you are definitely in
the wrong (right?) occupation.

Just thought I send a note of appreciation.

Now back to the regular scheduled postings.

<serious demeanour returns>

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Message: 2
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:37:56 -0000
   From: "Jen <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca>" <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca>
Subject: simcoe cty ambulance

hi again. i have 142.035, 149.605 and 149.440 foe ambulance. are
there any odther channels for ambulance in simcoe county? thx jen

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Message: 3
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:50:36 -0500
   From: "Kevin Plested" <kevin@warpzone.ca>
Subject: Re: simcoe cty ambulance

142.035 - North Desk (Barrie, Orillia, Midland, etc)
151.355 - South Desk (Aurora, Richmond Hill, Alliston)

149.440 - Provincial Paging - all paging of the bases
149.605 - Provincial Tactical - hospital patchs
150.100 - Provincial Common - you'll hear Georgian talking to out of town units

Kevin Plested
Muskoka CACC

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jen <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca>
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:37
  Subject: [Scanont] simcoe cty ambulance

  hi again. i have 142.035, 149.605 and 149.440 foe ambulance. are
  there any odther channels for ambulance in simcoe county? thx jen

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Message: 4
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:01:24 -0500
   From: <Champ@scanneraudio.com>
Subject: canada.com Story

Dear scanont@yahoogroups.com,

Your friend Champ@ScannerAudio.com thought you might be interested in this canada.com story:

"This man knows the waves"

http://www.canada.com/toronto/news/story.asp?id=E1E61B63-78D7-4C52-80E9-25CF0531374F

This man knows the waves
Herb Hilgenberg's amateur-radio weather service is a lifeline for sailors

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This is a free service courtesy of
canada.com (http://www.canada.com)

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Message: 5
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:27:55 -0500
   From: Steve Jones <sdjones@isys.ca>
Subject: Re: simcoe cty ambulance

on 2/19/03 12:50 PM, Kevin Plested at kevin@warpzone.ca wrote:

> 151.355 - South Desk (Aurora, Richmond Hill, Alliston)

You can add Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Clearview to the South Desk's
area.

-- 
Steve <sdjones@isys.ca>
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Message: 6
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:40:48 -0500
   From: "Kevin Plested" <kevin@warpzone.ca>
Subject: Re: simcoe cty ambulance
Sorry, it was more of a generalization. But, ya.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Jones 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 15:27
  Subject: Re: [Scanont] simcoe cty ambulance
  > 151.355 - South Desk (Aurora, Richmond Hill, Alliston)
  You can add Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Clearview to the South Desk's
  area.
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Message: 7
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:10:30 -0500
   From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
Subject: Owen Sound PS
A friend from Owen Sound confirmed today that the local police service is
using analog inversion scrambling.  He reported that the invert.exe program
(with the inversion point set around 1500hz) does successfully decode them.
-- 
Steve <s.jones@rogers.com>
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Message: 8
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:22:44 -0500
   From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: Re: simcoe cty ambulance
Some more to add to your list today( please correct me folks if I'm wrong with these):
Air ambulance on 129.275
Inter-agency on 148.655 though I can't remember ever hearing anything on it.
Repeater for helicopter 413.6875
Vehicle repeater on the new government system 410.4625
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jen <jenniferlawton1999@yahoo.ca> 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:37 AM
  Subject: [Scanont] simcoe cty ambulance
  hi again. i have 142.035, 149.605 and 149.440 foe ambulance. are 
  there any odther channels for ambulance in simcoe county? thx jen
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Message: 9
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:44:42 -0500
   From: "Sylvia Gallus" <sgallus@rogers.com>
Subject: TV Show "24"
Just FYI:
In last night's "24" TV show they used a Uniden BC895XLT. The lone weirdo in
the woods used it to prove to Jack's daughter Kim that the A-bomb had
already gone off... he gave her a set of headphones and punched up memory
locations 8 through 10 (at least), which all contained only zeros, no
frequencies.  Since they (surprisingly) had her turn away from the scanner,
when Mr. woods weirdo told her that all the frequencies were dead, she
believed him. (Personally, I would have picked up an AM radio to get the
latest news).
(Kim's a real loser. They should have killer her off with her Mom - or
instead of her Mom.)
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Message: 10
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:28:28 -0500
   From: <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: IMTS
We discussed this system a while back. Are these the freq's with the 152/157 split that TAFL lists as "Bell Canada Transmission Design"?
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
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Message: 11
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:51:51 -0500
   From: "Michael Fenech" <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: IMTS
Yep.
----- Original Message -----
From: <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
To: <scanont@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: [Scanont] IMTS
> We discussed this system a while back. Are these the freq's with the
152/157 split that TAFL lists as "Bell Canada Transmission Design"?
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Message: 12
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:20:44 -0000
   From: "Mike Ciupa <mciupa@excite.com>" <mciupa@excite.com>
Subject: Communications Operators-OPP Eastern Region Comm. Ctre.
I was browsing through the Gov. of Ont.(my employer) Job Mart and
came across a job ad for 24 Communications Operators-12 bilingual
and 12 unilingual at the Eastern Region Comm. Ctre. in Smith's Falls.
What struck me was the pay scale($19.98-23.24 per hr.)and that these
are one year temporary assignments(then what?)
Seems under paid for a high stress job.
Ad can be viewed @  www.gojobs.gov.on.ca
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Message: 13
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:29:36 -0500
   From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
on 2/19/03 4:28 PM, radio@slakeyourthirst.com at radio@slakeyourthirst.com
wrote:
> We discussed this system a while back. Are these the freq's with the 152/157
> split that TAFL lists as "Bell Canada Transmission Design"?
Yup, I think in a lot of areas, Bell is using them to dispatch techs.
-- 
Steve <s.jones@rogers.com>
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Message: 14
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:37:24 -0500
   From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
IC, some of them are listed as the 'Welcome Channel". Is that for them? What is/was this used for?
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Jones 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 17:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [Scanont] IMTS
  Yup, I think in a lot of areas, Bell is using them to dispatch techs.
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Message: 15
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:55:56 -0500
   From: "Len G. Carpenter" <Len.C@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: TV Show "24"
Well I just reviewed it and its really hard to say if they were all empty, when
she first started to listen it was in a 3 digit channel and the freq looked like
it was in the 200 Mhz band, when the camera turned to her then back to the
nutcase it looked like it was in the 220 Mhz area but it was on channels with 2
digits.
I recorded it digitally last night so that's how I was just able to go back and
have a look.
Sylvia Gallus wrote:
> Just FYI:
>
> In last night's "24" TV show they used a Uniden BC895XLT. The lone weirdo in
> the woods used it to prove to Jack's daughter Kim that the A-bomb had
> already gone off... he gave her a set of headphones and punched up memory
> locations 8 through 10 (at least), which all contained only zeros, no
> frequencies.  Since they (surprisingly) had her turn away from the scanner,
> when Mr. woods weirdo told her that all the frequencies were dead, she
> believed him. (Personally, I would have picked up an AM radio to get the
> latest news).
>
> (Kim's a real loser. They should have killer her off with her Mom - or
> instead of her Mom.)
>
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Message: 16
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:23:05 -0500
   From: Steve Jones <s.jones@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
on 2/19/03 5:37 PM, radio at radio@slakeyourthirst.com wrote:
> IC, some of them are listed as the 'Welcome Channel". Is that for them? What
> is/was this used for?
Welcome Channel is a place.
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Steve <s.jones@rogers.com>
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Message: 17
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:42:06 -0500
   From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
LOL Sometimes the obvious eludes me. It sounds like it should be a cable TV station.
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Jones 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 18:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [Scanont] IMTS
  on 2/19/03 5:37 PM, radio at radio@slakeyourthirst.com wrote:
  > IC, some of them are listed as the 'Welcome Channel". Is that for them? What
  > is/was this used for?
  Welcome Channel is a place.
  -- 
  Steve <s.jones@rogers.com>
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Message: 18
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:07:35 -0500
   From: Arthur Shulman <dentist@nornet.on.ca>
Subject: Re: IMTS
Historically, this was the (old) Bell Mobile Subscriber Service of the 60-70 era. There were (I think) 13 duplex channels, with Identifiers
like YK, YL, etc, with one to all channels installed in service areas. I seem to recall that Brantford, for example used the YK channel
pair, and a telephone based in that area (Home Area) might have the number YK4 xxxx.
IMTS stands for Itinerant Mobile Telephone Service.
I think that Bell long ago retired service to customers on these frequencies, but has retained these frequencies for internal
communications. I have also been told that the comm tower east of Simcoe on the north side of #3 highway is used for this purpose, and I can
confirm from personal observation that the equipment there is operational.
Has anyone been monitoring these channels to determine occupancy & content?
Arthur Shulman
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radio@slakeyourthirst.com wrote:
> We discussed this system a while back. Are these the freq's with the 152/157 split that TAFL lists as "Bell Canada Transmission Design"?
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Message: 19
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:58:50 -0500
   From: Michael Fenech <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: IMTS
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 07:07  PM, Arthur Shulman wrote:
> Has anyone been monitoring these channels to determine occupancy & 
> content?
It sure sounds like Bell using them in the Toronto area.
If my failing memory serves me well, Toronto used all but 152.630 
(which was Hamilton) and 152.780 (Niagara).  There was also an 
automated service (no operator) that appeared later on using the 
in-between frequencies 152.525, 152.555, 152.585 etc.  During 
inversions, I remember hearing "Omeemee Mobile" loud and clear here in 
Toronto.
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Michael Fenech
Toronto, Ontario
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Message: 20
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:09:00 -0500
   From: "info" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: PRO 34
I have a well used unconverted PRO 34 that is more of an eyesore than of any use to me. I'd give it a 3 out of ten on a good day after a couple of beers. It's been so long since it's been portable I don't know what shape the battery pack is in. I have a replacement RS wall wart( proper voltage, centre negative) and it works fine with it.
It's beat up, the keylock switch is missing( maybe it's inside the unit somewhere) the volume pot is dirty and the duct tape needs replacing. It has the original antenna whets left of it.
This unit works great, reception has never been better but It has out lived it's home. If someone needs it for parts or for cell play or for a project I offer it here first otherwise I'll stick it on ebay and see where it goes.
Mail me off list if you're interested. I also have several hundred feet of LMR 400 out in the shed waiting for a home. Consider it equal to hardline cable but just until spring.
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
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Message: 21
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:37:38 -0500
   From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
Michael, this covers occupancy, what about content?
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Fenech 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 20:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Scanont] IMTS
  > Has anyone been monitoring these channels to determine occupancy & 
  > content?
  It sure sounds like Bell using them in the Toronto area....
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Message: 22
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:45:39 -0500
   From: Michael Fenech <mfenech@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: IMTS
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:37  PM, radio wrote:
> Michael, this covers occupancy, what about content?
In the little bit of listening I did, there were enough clues to 
definitely point to Bell.  Beyond that, I couldn't say.  Why not fire 
up your scanner and listen in?  They are quite busy during the day.
--
Michael Fenech
Toronto, Ontario
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Message: 23
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:05:05 -0500
   From: "radio" <radio@slakeyourthirst.com>
Subject: Re: IMTS
Yup. I'm fired up now at home with the local freq's however I'm not in or near TO everyday so that's why I asked ;)
J.
"Just watch me."  Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1970
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Fenech 
  To: scanont@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 21:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [Scanont] IMTS
  .....there were enough clues to definitely point to Bell.  Beyond that, I couldn't say.  Why not fire 
  up your scanner and listen in?  They are quite busy during the day.
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Message: 24
   Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:04:59 -0500
   From: Bryan <bryanpass@rogers.com>
Subject: PRP Simplex?
Hey..
Anyone know what the Peel Regional Police simplex channels are?
I was listening to four Morality units trail a pimp.. when they got to 
Weston/401 they all 'switched to SIM1'.. much to my disappointment.
Thanks!!
bryan
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Message: 25
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:13:41 -0500
   From: "Sylvia Gallus" <sgallus@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: PRP Simplex?
PRP Simplex is 866.2125 but you have to be there in order to receive it
(it's simplex, after all).
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