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The Asotin County Sheriff's Office is now using 157.50 -- formerly an Auto-Emergency / towing frequency to feed the Sheriff's repeater on 155.415 R. And the Asotin County Road Dept uses 161.49 (R) (Railroad), 159.75 input and 160.11 simplex - operations (Both trucking freqs). It's the 173.3375 F2D -- low powered police in-dash camera mics that take the cake. Don't forget that the Asotin County Fire repeater on 154.205 R uses 159.18 as an input.

Just a guess, could be some paperwork fudging on the small county political side to aquire some freqs, bypassing the FCC regs.

:D :D No. They are real and were selected by the radio shop and approved by the FCC. No games. The main mountain top site has only a small area of spectrum -- that can be received without hearing crud and junk from some where else. Notice 157.50, 159.18 and 159.75 are inputs. The FCC rules now allow any frequency to be used by any type of user -- just like Canada and Mexico. Today a cop channel. Tomorrow it's shared with a garbage collection (trash truck) company. Progess.

It's kind of a weird area where the repeater is located in Asotin Co. But probably the only area. I think all the commo for the area is located right at that spot. Nice view.
What is there, like five truck run-off ramps on the way down?

I do remember the Tacoma PD (undercover or swat ops) using the trash truck freqs at night during the uhf days. Woud this be considered the same thing?

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NO. The FCC has always allowed Public Safety - Police operations on ANY radio frequency from 39 Mhz up to 960 Mhz -- with two (2) conditions. The un-licensed use must be (1) very low powered -- 2 watts or less and (2) for undercover use only. Regular police car to car or dispatching operations are not allowed. Keep in mind that under this OLD rule -- it applies only to UN-licenced operations. What you heard was covered under this old FCC rule. However -- the FCC has now revised the way that they do things -- in general. There are no longer over 20 types of radio services or "users". Under the old system -- a radio frequency was "Allocated" for use "Only" to a specific Service Group. Under the NEW system -- any frequency can be used by any type of user. So a "police frequency" no longer exists. It can be used by any "Business" user -- Provided that the station is located far enough from any other "police or public safety" user and does not casuse any interference to any other stations. Under the new FCC rules - there are only two types of "users". "Public Safety" -- PW and "Business" -- IG. Frequencies that were assigned to Police, Fire, LGS, Highway, Forestry, Special Emergency and EMS are now all grouped togather for normial assignment to any "public safety" type station. All of the "Industial" type services have been combined into the "Business" pool of radio channels. Public Safety users have priority on assignment of any frequency in the "public safety pool". And any business user has priority on use of any frequency in the "business radio pool". When there are no open radio frequencies within the "pool" -- the FCC will allow use of "out of catagory" frequencies. Asotin County has been given use of several "out of catagory" non public safety channels.