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This afternoon about 3pm I was driving north on I5 and just entered Skagit County.

Had the scanner going and it stopped on 155.160 and a loud voice said.....

"Silver one right lane going under the over pass now."

I looked in the rear view mirror and saw there was a silver car behind me about 1000 feet and a WSP car was pulling it over with it's light bar flashing. Listened a while longer and no more on that freq but the plates were being run on the WSP Skagit Co
freq of 155.505.

I just happened to have 155.160 programmed in my scanner because it is used by search & rescue where I live.

Looked in the FCC database and don't see 155.160 licensed to the state up this way.
The only place the state has licenses for it is in the Camp Murray area and that is probably for EOC.

Entered it in to our database. :D

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

I have 155.16 listed as statewide SAR/AIR.....

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WSP mobiles are really high power. At point-blank range, you could easily be getting an image or even front end overload. I think that's much more likely than finding them working on the SAR / AMR channel (and you didn't hear any prior traffic on that freq, did you?).

I didn't hear anything before but I was at least half a mile from the over pass when I heard the transmission.

I have all the WSP freqs loaded in that scanner.

I didn't hear anything on the 155.505 except that cars plates being run and there were other WSP cars further up I5 with cars pulled over so.....?

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2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

I'm with FlashP on this one.
Just a hunch.

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My vote for overload...

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Doubt it... The guy calling out the customers is most likely on a portable. They dont have very many car to car channels they can use and if their car to car channel is busy they can be found on other channels on their radios.

They know that people scan their normal car to car channels including the professional speeders...

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My vote:

After seeing Jim check out batteries at Costco, some SAR guys tailed him home. Not wanting to speed, they got stuck behind some traffic. One got further ahead and noticed that some other car was going really fast. So he radioed to his buddy that the car was about to be pulled over and happened to be right.

OK

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

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1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

The guy calling out targets is usually airborne; the phrasing used here is consistent with that. They'll use some tac channel so that the area channel can be kept clear for running plates etc.

Yep- if their using aircraft. Then also low power.

I dont think it was front end overload on his scanner.

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"A well regulated breakfast, being necessary to the healthy start of the day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed."

WSP scenario #113

Just after passing the Skagit County line heading north on I5 a Canadian 18 wheeler
looks ahead and spots what looks like a WSP car stopped on the overpass.

Glancing down at the speedometer he notices he may be going a few too many
KM over the speed limit.

He notices a silver car ahead of him going very fast who evidently hasn't seen the WSP
car on the overpass ahead.

A lightning fast decision is made to divert a speeding ticket.

He has heard that WSP cars have CB radios and monitor truckers.

Why not use this to his advantage?

In the heat of all the excitement he grabs the mic and says...

"Silver one right lane going under the over pass now."

He doesn't realize he has grabbed the mic for the company radio instead of the CB.

The company radio operates on one of those frequencies we hear strange conversations
on and assume it is a Canadian trucker. 155.160!

The WSP car on the overpass has radioed the chase car about the silver car on a car-to-car
freq which I did not hear because that transmission was at the exact time I received the Canadian
truckers.

Looking in the rear view mirror I see the chase car pull over the silver car with it's
light bar flashing.

The Canadian trucker cruises on by them and looks in his rear view mirror and says to himself.

"I fooled you ya stupid Yank copper." He slams the pedal to the metal.

Looking in the rear view mirror he fails to see two more WSP cars sitting just up the highway who
pull him over.

Case solved. :beer:

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1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

I would guess that the SAR guys were sent into Costco to find something someone saw there last week and can't find this week because they move everything around constantly. If you see something in Costco you want you better get it then because next week it will be gone or moved and you won't find it again.

155.160 is what they use to search in Costco normally. :D

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2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

If you ever go to Costco and see the white price sign with an asterisk in the upper right-hand corner of the sign, it means the item is no longer going to be ordered so what you see is what you get. Here today but could be gone tomorrow.

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As long as we are waaaay off topic anyway :lol:

Last week my wife and I stopped at the Seattle Premium Outlet Mall in Tulalip.

We stopped in at the only store in the place worth a damn (as far as I'm concerned).
The Sony Outlet store.

They had refurbished headphones on sale for 30% off (like always :roll: ) and my wife tried on a pair of the "Urban Style" or the ones that have the neck band that goes behind your neck instead of over your head. $ 6.83 with tax. Bought a pair for herself.

I tried them out when we got home and they worked pretty well with my handheld scanner. So I decided to pick up a pair for myself the next time I went down there.

On Sunday I was driving around south of here listening for IWN & DOD stuff and decided to stop in at the Sony Outlet store.

I went in and went straight to the display with those earphones. There was a demo pair but none on the shelf so I asked an employee if they had any more in stock.
He said no and they weren't getting any more in. I asked him if they would sell me the demo pair. He said ask the guy at the check out stand. I did and that guy asked me why I had the demo pair. I told him what the other employee said. He said "Did he have glasses?"
I said yes. He went in the back room and came out with a pair in a sealed box.
He said "We have 45 pairs in the back room,that guy is an idiot". I agreed.
Pays to ask more than one employee so it seems. :D

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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