Kenwood NX-800 - Morning School Bus Radio Chatter with FleetSync

Описание: On Friday, I recorded some chatter off of my original NX-800 (not the new one the bus company gave me). This video was about 21 minutes of mostly silence, so I edited it down to just the transmissions, which made it 5 minutes.

Rather than recording from the Carol Stream terminal, as I have been, I decided to record from the home channel, the West Chicago (Wheaton) channel. Sadly, at the end of this school year, the West Chicago buses and drivers will be eventually moved over to Carol Stream. From what I was told, the St. Charles yard is going to be closing for good and moving to the West Chicago terminal. The fate of this radio system is currently unknown. I'm not sure if they are going to keep the West Chicago repeater in and continue to operate on 461.8875 MHz, or if that repeater will go and they will move the St. Charles repeater over and operate on 451.2250 MHz. Of course, the bus radios will remain the same, they will just have the channels flipped to Carol Stream. Should be a pretty big change for the Wheaton buses and drivers, anyway.

I sure will miss this radio system. Since the West Chicago terminal opened in 2013, it's been using this weak repeater with an incredible amount of interference coming in on the repeater input pretty often. I'm pretty confident the drivers will like using the Carol Stream channel a lot better, as it is a lot clearer.