Could this be right!?

[dxer720]

I live in Lake Geneva, WI. I've been trying to find police frequencies for my scanner. I subscribed to, & looked on the National Radio Data site:

www.nationalradiodata.com

& found the Lake Geneva Police Department listed as using frequencies from 4940, 4955 & 4975 MHz. Is this possible?

Last time I checked, they were using 857.21250 MHz for their main channel.

Coincidentally, I haven't heard any traffic on the 857 MHz frequency, of late.

I know that some police departments are going, or have gone digital (& you could at least hear the data bursts with DATA SKIP turned off), but could they also have gone to such a high frequency, as well?

It seems to me that frequencies that high would be so tightly line-of-sight that mobile or portable use would be problematical.

Please help.

 

[K6JHU]

Wonder if they missed a decimal point, e.g. 494.0 Mhz. That would put them back in the right ballpark.

 

[Darth_vader]

Or possibly even 4.940, 4.955 and 4.975 (which, of course, is 4940, 4955 and 4975 kHz respectively), if they have equipment that's ancient enough.

 

[kinphoenix]

I think radioreference.com may help out, they have a database of just about everything on there. http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?stid=55 if what you're looking for isn't listed there, I'm sure the forum posters have or know how to get what you are looking for.

 

[K6JHU]

From the FCC...

"470-512 MHz (jpeg)
Shared with UHF-TV; available only in 11 cities
Channels are spaced every 6.25 kHz
Authorized Bandwidth is 20 kHz, 11.25 kHz or 6 kHz "

So I doubt that they have skipped a decimal point making it 494.0 MHz.

4940 KHz is possible up in the north woods.

But wouldn't the equivalent of an STL link be a better choice and that it really is a 4940 MHz linking frequency.

 

[kb3ouk]

I'd say those are links between the 800 mhz sites, they probably have multiple sites to help with dead spots in the coverage.