{"id":919,"date":"2008-07-20T20:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-07-20T20:49:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:49:46","slug":"range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/20\/range\/","title":{"rendered":"Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use my little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaesu.com\/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&#038;ProdCatID=111&#038;ProdID=870&#038;DivisionID=65&#038;isArchived=0\">VX-2R<\/a> for a lot of local scanning. It just stopped on &#8220;CH-7,&#8221; 460.300. That&#8217;s Boston PD&#8217;s Channel 7, used for unit-to-unit chat.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to see who had the license in NH, only to find no one. (Actually, that&#8217;s not true: the State of Vermont has a license on that frequency in NH, but it&#8217;s up north.)<\/p>\n<p>So I switched over to my ASTRO Saber, which has a better antenna, and has the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital-Coded_Squelch\">DPL<\/a> code used by Boston PD programmed, so as to not receive extraneous data. A few minutes went by and, sure enough, Channel 7 came up with some traffic.<\/p>\n<p>What range: 50-60 miles to be received decently well by a rubber-ducky antenna indoors. But I guess when you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless2.fcc.gov\/UlsApp\/UlsSearch\/licenseFreqSum.jsp?licKey=1248962&#038;keyLoc=14029018\">licensed for<\/a> 335 Watts ERP from the top of the Prudential, that type of thing is to be expected. But strangely, I&#8217;m not hearing activity on any of their other channels.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cometantenna.com\/products.php?CatID=1&#038;famID=5&#038;childID=2\">GP-15<\/a> on our roof at home, which I used trying to listen to a distant fireground channel last night, and found to have <em>excellent<\/em> gain: 6.2 dBi on VHF, and 8.6 dBi on UHF. I might have to go down there and see how Boston comes in some time when there&#8217;s not a lighting storm overhead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use my little VX-2R for a lot of local scanning. It just stopped on &#8220;CH-7,&#8221; 460.300. That&#8217;s Boston PD&#8217;s Channel 7, used for unit-to-unit chat. I tried to see who had the license in NH, only to find no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/07\/20\/range\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}