Chattanooga/Hamilton County Rebanding.

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Note that this also affects Catoosa County as well...

Applications are either pending or have been approved for rebanding of the Chattanooga / Hamilton County system.

In the simulcast zone (Lookout / Signal / White Oak / Sale Creek Mountains), these frequencies will be added to replace the 11 highest frequencies (857.7625, and all 858, 859, and 860 MHz frequencies):

854.0125
854.2625
854.3375
854.6625
854.7125
854.9125
855.1875
855.3625
855.4375
855.6375
855.6875

On the East Brainerd / Brock Road site, these frequencies will replace the 866 / 867 / 868 MHz frequencies:

851.6000
852.1000
852.8000
853.8000

On the Catoosa County / Ringgold site, these frequencies will replace the 866 / 867 / 868 MHz frequencies:

851.4125
851.6250
851.9000
852.4125
853.4125

After the system has been reconfigured to use these new frequencies, they would then file applications to delete the old frequencies off the licenses.

In a way, this kinda ticks me off, because by the time this change happens, the radio personnal will probably want to encrypt the feed.

On the other hand, it may be a benefit to listeners because now, the way they have the system set up, other agencies bleed through on 1 channel which sometimes gets annoying. So maybe this will fix the problem. Hopefully.