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I got this info from a buddy who works for US Oil & Refining Company. I know most of the list is well known marine frequencies, but can anyone up north confirm the repeater?



Here's what he said about the repeater: "We only tune in when there is any kind of oil or refinery-related happening going on. We have this partnership with the 5 other refineries in the Puget Sound, so we only listen in if they have a problem or if we do." When asked about how often it gets used: "The oil/refinery stuff is unpredictable The only "significant" spill was up north, a few years ago. BUT, the agency does more than just deal with oil. There was a chlorine leak 3 months ago from some company in the Port of Tacoma, and apparently that was on there. Also, I'm told that there was a lot of chatter on Saturday, since the air quality in Seattle proper was bad enough to get the EPA's attention." This was for a few months ago; back when the weather was actually sunny.
I've had it in one of my banks and I only occasionally pick up a CWID. Supposedly they hit this repeater from Tacoma with handhelds, or maybe they only use it up near Mt. Constitution with handhelds and they don't use it down south; I can't remember what he meant. Or I suppose they could be on the Gold repeater; that'd be easy in Tacoma. I searched ULS and couldn't find a relevant license.

is that on a napkin?

see if this helps narrow your query's

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSear ... ey=2555157
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSear ... ey=1843533
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http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSear ... ey=1774701

you can pull the company for the region, i see a north sound north seattle and south repeater for use by 3 company ID but all seem to fit your napkin

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

I was a but surprised there wasn't a big brown spot on that..
Oh, that was a napkin, not a$$wipe - my bad.

"Tones man, I need TONES"
"I'm jonesin' for TONES"

Can confirm 454.0/459.0 I used to test the repeater for then once or twice a year but lost the PL. (I don't think that they knew I was testing the system for them - ingrates

-m

Citizen Arrest :D

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

LOL -- I love the Christmas Season. The best time to check out all of those UHF repeaters. As for the 454.00 "Oil Spill / Clean-up" channels (Both UHF and VHF ) ( 150.98 R, 159.48 R, as well as 153.05 R and 153.155 R ) there is known to be at least one and maybe two -- perminant repeaters -- on Gold Mountain or Mt. Connie -- and a group of Portable Repeaters -- for oil spill clean-up operations. What your pal with the oil company -- did not write down on the napkin was that the Anacortes area refinery has a few UHF repeaters of their own. PS: Don't worry Mark. I'll put up your bail.

No, it was not a napkin. Just a piece of paper with some wrinkles on it that got magnified when scanned. And I asked about PLs but he didn't remember seeing anything other than those freqs and some local Tacoma stuff.

Guess someone needs to do a little more "testing"...

Yes, but there are so many PL's to go through

More info about freqs used during oil spill incidents can be found at the following sites:

United States - Canada Border Program
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/ ... order.html

Annex I - CANUSWEST
http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/canuswest.htm
http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/offices/oec/canuswest.pdf


Regional Response Team Northwest Area Committee
Northwest Area Contingency Plan
http://www.rrt10nwac.com/nwacp_document.htm

Especially THIS document:
9650 - Communications Manual
http://www.rrt10nwac.com/files/nwacp/20 ... 209650.pdf

I'm not sure what the deal is with listing 2m Amateur freqs for wildlife beach patrol, maybe volunteers who are licensed?

Washington Dept of Ecology
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/spills.html

Lots of maps and other info.
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/p ... e_grps.htm

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/p ... _sound.htm

Kerwin

nice someone get all this to the northwest frequency guys? (the book)

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If I had an antenna, I would; but I can only transmit on 160 meters.
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DE K7MHI

Done.

I have heard the Canadian Marine Spill Response agency 'Burrard Clean' and the US Marine Spill Response Corporation both use the 454.0000 repeater with a tone of 103.5

Operations were for training exercises. I heard three callsigns: KNDU378 KND372 KND278
I would think the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency would use the same PL, as this frequency is used for all agencies to respond in conjunction and communication with each other.

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Cory C.
Vancouver Island Scanner Reference
http://www.members.shaw.ca/bcscanner/