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Author Topic: So, what are you hearing on Red Dot FREQ 151.625MHz FM?  (Read 19591 times)

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So, what are you hearing on Red Dot FREQ 151.625MHz FM?
« on: February 04, 2025, 1700 UTC »
Since the 1990's, I've been advised to put 151.625MHz FM in my scanners, since that FREQ seems to have lots of various activity. Indeed, it does. So much so, it's surprised me that the FCC didn't make it one of the license-free MURS Band channels. The MURS Channels were taken from those licensed VHF High Band color-dot FREQ's back around 2002, but Red Dot FREQ 151.625MHz, wasn't one of them. Here, in WV, I know that the tower workers are working in the middle of the night, on that now empty 600ft TV tower a mile behind me. When I would hear them on 151.625MHz, super strong signal, sure enough, I would see LED flash lights going up & down that tower. More recently, I hear a lot of mobile traffic from RT. 64. I even heard what sounded like Japanese spoken on there. Now, I have to question, is this still even a licensed VHF FREQ in the USA?   https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/itinerant-freq-151-625.307176/       So, what do y'all hear on that FREQ?
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Re: So, what are you hearing on Red Dot FREQ 151.625MHz FM?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2026, 0556 UTC »
Heard some FM chatter on 151.625 today that sounded like mobile to mobile simplex. Guys complaining about snow and ice on the road and people driving too slow. Sounded like they were in trucks going to a job site. Quickly faded out as they got angrier and language increasingly more foul. Too bad. Made me smile for a moment.

 
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