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I've been picking up something strange on 160.625 (AAR channel 34)
Sometimes the communications are loud and clear, at other times
there will be a carrier, and snippets of conversation.
Then there is what sounds like a wind tunnel or something with conversation
underneath it that is barely legible.
Any ideas?

--Deeply Shrouded & Quiet KD7YVV

I'll listen, but that description sounds more like interference/intermod than an on-channel signal. NOAA?

No, it's not NOAA, but it is strange. Sounds like people talking, but they sound like they're in a wind
tunnel with a whooshing noise over them.

--Deeply Shrouded & Quiet KD7YVV

Sounds like someone/something is keying up the repeater (it has a long hang time, probably for the phone patch). Occasionally I'll hear a brief hollow sound of whatever's causing it, mostly it's just a clean squelch tail. I haven't heard any voices in the background when this happens.

When it's getting real usage, it sounds normal.

Flash

it's a phone patch freq. I can't put my hands on it but there is a second patch freq also.

try this

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/vhfnb.htm

Seems like a maritime freq.

May SEEM like a marine freq and I've also seen it on a FEMA freq list, but trust me it's a BN phone patch freq and has been for years.

It's 160.620

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Thanks, that's why it didn't come up in a search of my DB's. So I have PBX's/mobile
160.29
160.605
160.62
161.13
161.25
161.49

My memory was that there were only two phone patches in the Seattle area, so obviously I've reached the end of my usefulness on this subject

:D :D If you mean 160.62, ( not 160.625) it is most likely a problem with the relay link or microwave link between Tiger Mtn or Mission Ridge. This is a PBX channel. It's been a very hard winter on most of the higher two-way sites and it's not "un-common" to hear all sorts of crap on any frequency that has some type of "link" or "control - input" or relay attached. Phone lines often cause the same type of problems. And most railroad channels are remote controlled -- in one way or another.

:D Glad to see you back on the board Mike. Missed your input.

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Thanks Jim. Been 'hangin' out at "In-N-Out" burgers -- late at night -- till Brittney Spears ran over my foot and tried to mug me for my "Double Double with cheese". LOL :D :D :D

She's been pretty angry since someone stole her undies :mrgreen:

What freqs does In & Out use for their drive thru down there? :beer:

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Not to get too much off topic but check out what the winter has done to the
Lymann Hill site where the 145.190 repeater and others are located.

See KG7HQ webpage and look around on it for pictures of the mess up there..

http://kg7hq.wetnet.net/

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

:D :D paired low powered IG UHF business -- 468 / 457 mhz. Some of the older stores have VHF split radios 154.515 / 33.16 R. The Redding "In-N-Out" is the closest Hamburger stand to the northwest. Brittney has had her daily "IN-N-OUT" burger and shake delivered to the hospital -- per TMZ. The bumper stickers are the rage. You cover over the "B" and the "R" in "Burger" and it's reads "In-N-Out URGE". The "Echo" on the railroad channel is an open microwave link. Most often you can hear State Police or Federal radio systems -- shut down or "open" during power failures and loss of phone or radio links. Some 800 Mhz trunked systems have been known to fail --- and yet just stay open. It was as if the Dispatcher had it's mic keyed -- but could not hear anyone on the channel. You could hear the PSAP saying "Hello 911 --"