Ancient radio history - Boston MA area - circa 1972 - freqs from A&W Catalog and CRB Research Guide
Can anyone shed any light on any of these ? Actual use? Dates of use? Air to Ground Phone - 454.80 - KCC793 Arlington FD - 460.60 - (IIRC AFD was 158.76 then 158.805 then 460.60R) Barnstable County Sheriff - 453.70 - KJF772 - must have been a link or something Barnstable County Sheriff - KFB957 171.725 & KRC95 172.525 - maybe for coord with Cape Cod Natl Seashore Boston DPW - KRE506 - 453.725 - 453.775 - 453.825 - ??? Boston EMS - 453.20 - maybe - I do remember them as being on some 453 Mhz channel - I think they just had 2 fulltime ambulance back then - maybe A4 and A7 Boston PD - went to UHF around 1970 apparently - before that apparently 159.21 was Channel 1 on KCA860 - maybe 39.02 before that Braintree PD - 453.625 KSL911 Brookline FD - 460.625 - I do remember them being on UHF - maybe for portables only - but on a repeater system - maybe patched to 33.78 Cambridge PD - 460.375 & 460.475 Fall River Local Govt - 453.375 - KRO355 Logan FD - 453.55 Marshfield PD - 453.05 Melrose PD - 471.0375 - maybe the first BAPERN user Northeastern University PD - 464.975 Peabody - 453.475 - KRT797 - maybe DPW Quincy PD - 453.25 - they must have gone to UHF very early - KSL347 - maybe before Boston PD - perhaps they were on 159.15 before UHF Randolph PD - 453.80 KTO551 Salem State Univ - 464.475 KSP596 Waltham - Brandeis and Bentley had UHF channels Westwood - 453.875 - KSM217 - maybe DPW Mass State Forest Fire - 171.575 - at Danvers - KCG98 - I remember some channel that brush trucks from all over eastern Mass - this must have been it - also 172.275 KCF91 at Stow MDC PD - 453.25 KCC81 at Petersham - 453.45 KCC82 at New Salem - 453.75 KCC80 at Pelham - unknown if ever used Mass State Police - 453.10 & 453.15 - KTH662 at Canton - unknown if ever used Mass State Police - 460.025 - KRV206 - Boston - IIRC that was the old State House security channel 1972 - BPD had 3 boats - John F Kennedy - Protector - William H Pierce 1972 - BFD had 2 boats - James F McTighe - Joseph J Luna How can we dig up these old licenses online? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
