CA CHP frequency request

Post by Pj » Mon Dec 17, 2001 11:36 am

I normally would not ask this on this board, but I cannot find all the information that I am looking for elsewhere.

Does anyone have the current LOW BAND freq's for the CHP and PL's? We are starting to get blasted here in Connecticut from the Barstow and LA area. We would like to add some PL's to our CSQ freq's, and I do not want to dup the same one's in. Its hard enought to get 10 cars in at one time when I am working to do the reprogramming! At least two of our freq's are the same 42.46 and 42.56.

Thanks in advance!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 12:39 pm

PJ,
A quick search on the internet turned up these two websites. The info seems prettu consistant between the two.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/ ... olors.html
http://www.freqofnature.com/chp.htm

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 12:56 pm

PJ,
I would strongly recomend that you contact the CHP radio shop as they use several different PL codes and single tone(s) in different areas of the state. I am very familliar with that network, it has simocast transmitters on most base frequencies, mobiles talk in on different frequencies. Car to car is on the Base frequencies. AND most if not all CHP base/half duplex stations are on very high mountains, some as high as 9000 feet!!!! All the base transmitters and some receivers in LA are on 3600 to 6000 foot mountains, Mount Lukens, Oat Mt., Santiago Pk., Sierra PK., Castro Pk., just to mention a few....
Call the CHP office in Newhall, CA and ask them for the radio shop number. The main radio shop, and system supervisor, is located in Sacramento, CA. I am sure they would want to coordenate with you.

Post by Pj » Mon Dec 17, 2001 12:56 pm

Didn't find those sites, but that's what I am looking for.

Gotta love the CHP and all those channel colors. That's gotta be annoying!

What do they have against Channel 1,2 or even 3???

Post by Pj » Mon Dec 17, 2001 1:00 pm

Thanks for the shop info. Right now it only seems to be coming in with the cold weather and storms. Usually, we escape all of that, but we moved to a rather large tower now, and being a peak DX time, it makes for some really neat listening, but just not on the fire channels

We get it, but the mobiles don't.

I think our PL soloution will work for now. I don't think we are going to beat a 9000 ft antenna, and the problem most likely won't last long either, seeing that this is the first time for it.

We usually get blasted by the Texas Highway Patrol twice a year though, and that's annoying with the Texan accent! (But comical at times!)

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 1:32 pm

PJ, seems that we are at a peak sunspot cycle now that causes the skip. We can count on the skip in the low and VHF 144 to 175 to be a problem for the next few years.

metro121 · Post by **metro121** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 1:45 pm

Hey PJ. don't feel so bad, we are getting here also from everyone back east, evan with PL's.
I have the entire CHP frequency and PL list . I will look it up and email it to you if you still need it. Let me know, Ralph

Post by Pj » Mon Dec 17, 2001 2:13 pm

Thanks! It will be a great help. Being from California, its nice to hear things from 20 years in the future again

In the northeast, we are WAY behind the times. MDT's in crusiers came in widespread within the last 3 years. We also had a good laugh when we would watch Blues Brothers at work (yes, midnights are slow) and that ISP had the MDT's in that time period, and we just got them!

Skip on the RR freq's (160's) is getting good too. I am hearing some long distant comm's.

metro121 · Post by **metro121** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 4:08 pm

Here is a website that will help you . It belongs to a friend of mine and it will be faster to get your info from here rather than me trying to put eveything here on the forum
http://www.latraffic.org/radioman/radiosys.html

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 6:29 pm

Metro 21, thanks for that information thats going to save PJ a big toll call.