In Reply to: Metro Watch FREQs posted by wayne batten on October 31, 2000 at 19:20:25:
Look in 450-451, make sure you use 12.5 khz chann space. I recall 450.4875 or .6500
There were 3 or 4 freqs in use a few years ago. Typically a repeater with multiple mobile stations sharing information from various vantage points. When it came time for an on air traffic report for one of the am or fm broadcast stations, a director would give a short countdown and they'd do it off air. Sometimes live, sometimes a recording for the station.
It was not unusual to have the traffic reporters for three or four stations sharing a repeater. Of course a few of those reporters covered multiple stations.
Of course, with the DOT cams now, I don't imagine they have a use for deploying mass spotters / reporters in the field twice a day.
: looking for Metro Watch FREQs for the Vancouver WA area