When the corporation acquired the Hughes Aircraft Company, Delco was merged with it to form Hughes Electronics as an independent subsidiary. In 1972, General Motors merged it with the AC Electronics division and it continued to operate as part of the Delco Electronics division of General Motors. Just like the fire channels, I can pick up these clearly in the Center City area.Delco Electronics Corporation was the automotive electronics design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors based in Kokomo, Indiana, that manufactured Delco Automobile radios and other electric products found in GM cars. CLEEN seems to have the strongest signal of all the channels. I can pick up the countywide channels perfectly as well. S3 and M3 I don't really pick up very often but when I do, I get static with it (yes, I use the PL, cause if you don't use it on S3, you get a constant flow of static). S1 and M1 I can pick up sometimes but not a lot. S2 and M2 I sometimes lose the voice on (especially on the 97 inside the house). As far as the police channels, I can pick S4, M4, S5, M5, S6, M6, and S7 with no problem. Guess the signals bounce off the tall buildings. I've noticed the same thing in other spots in and around Center City. Now when I'm at school at Drexel, I can pick up all of the channels with no problem on my Pro 97. I can get it sometimes but usually I get nothing more than silence or the occassional blip of talk and nothing else. 5 and 6 are a problem for me hear in Lansdowne. 9 I've never picked anything up on (considering the fact it is the back up channel for fire 4 and even then, nobody uses it because of coverage issues - from what I understand this was going to be the Blue Route Response Channel but that never flourished). 3 and 4 I can pick up but I lose the conversation quite often. There are a few sweet spots in my house where 7 and 8 come in very clear. I can attest for difficulty picking up fire channels other than 1, 2, 10, Haverford, MED A, and MED B. Obviously this is my at home set up - when I'm mobile it's only the 97. During a major fire, the 2055 will be on the primary fire channel for the incident while I'll have the 97 on either the police channel, the MED channel, or the secondary fire channel for the area (where cover ups operate on as well as some talk around). If I do I will pass it on to you in this thread later. Maybe I can find some time tonight (if the cold doesn't keep us running here at work.) to come up with a plan to marry up the Delcom/Fireboard freqs into something usable. I guess thats my Fire side bias showing, as well as the fact that the part of the county I do the Fire/Rescue thing in only has State Police coverage, and they don't get too involved with fire scenes usually. As a matter of fact I don't think I have EVER listened in to local Police during a Fire. It would be handy to do it this way for the parts of the county with municipal Police Depts, that way when you hear a dispatch that sounds like it may be something you could quickly go to that bank and maybe hear some first reports by the Police. My main intrest is Fire, much more so than Police, so I guess thats why I haven'y made time to work it out yet. Yes, thats pretty much what i was trying to suggest, I don't have any of my radios programmed that way (yet), it is something I have been thinking of doing though. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
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