Equipment: Radio Shack PRO-79 handheld scanner, Radio Shack VU-210XR VHF/UHF yagi antenna
All times Central Standard/Daylight Time. Central Daylight and Eastern Standard Time are the same. To convert CDT to EDT and CST to EST, add one hour. To convert CDT/EST to UTC, add five hours. To convert CST to UTC, add six hours.
February 22, 2002 (F2)
33.720 MHz-Spanish language traffic (police) at 1641; bearing southwest (Probable Target Area: Mexico)
March 6, 2002 (F2)
33.760 MHz-Spanish language traffic (police or fire) at 1545; bearing southeast (PTA: Caribbean or Spain)
33.980 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1556; bearing southwest (PTA: Mexico)
33.720 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1554; bearing southwest (PTA: Mexico)
37.420 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1555; bearing southeast (PTA: Caribbean)
(trop)
42.340 MHz-Missouri Highway Patrol Charleston, MO with mention of I-55 and Frontage Road
March 13, 2002 (F2)
39.060 MHz-Italian language traffic at 1458; bearing east-southeast (PTA: northern Italy; Milan or Torino area)
39.080 MHz-Italian language traffic at 1459; bearing east-southeast (PTA: northern Italy; Milan or Torino area)
39.200 MHz-Portuguese language traffic at 1500; bearing east-southeast (PTA: Portugal or Brazil)
39.040 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1501; bearing east-southeast (PTA: Spain, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador or Venezuela)
39.180 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1503; bearing east-southeast (PTA: Spain, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador or Venezuela)
39.080 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1504, over Italian traffic; bearing east-southeast (PTA: Spain, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador or Venezuela)
33.500 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1630; bearing east-southeast (PTA: Spain, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador or Venezuela)
March 14, 2002 (E-skip)
37.420 MHz-Spanish language traffic at 1318; bearing southeast (PTA: Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico)
August 1, 2002 (E-skip)
33.700 MHz-Two calls received simultaneously at 1805; one mentioning Westmoreland, NY, while the other mentioned Winchester, NH
33.700 MHz-Call received at 1809 mentioning Bridgewater, NJ
33.700 MHz-Call received at 1810 mentioning Cornwall, NY
33.520 MHz-gave Central Daylight time check at 1817