Businesses Lehigh County (PA)

PP&L - Pennsylvania Power and Light

PPL generates and transmits electrical power to parts of over 20 counties in Pennsylvania. PPL also transmits power purchased from other sources. The outage map helps show areas of coverage. They include northeastern PA, parts of the Lehigh Valley, and parts of central southern and central PA. From what I have observed, PPL’s primary radio system for most of its overage area is a 37 MHz VHF low band system. Some areas seem to use a VHF high band system in the 173 MHz range (173.225-173.375) instead. The headquarters building in Allentown, PA is known to use a UHF repeater system, and by all appearances PPL generation stations use low-power UHF radios for internal communications. Some of the information on this page has been collected by other authors and is displayed on the respective county pages. Remote-controlled video systems are licensed under WQLX530 and operate between 3650-3700 MHz from multiple locations.

Bucks & Montgomery Counties “Buxmont” - Telford transmitter site

Output	Input	Type	Tone	License	Use
37.58	37.58	BM	?	KQZ249	?
37.62	37.62	BM	?	KQZ249	?
37.7	37.7	BM	146.2	KQZ249	?
37.86	37.86	BM	?	KQZ249	?
153.515	153.515	M	146.2	KA5737	?

Some of the low band mobiles are licensed under KA5737

PPL Lehigh County - 9th Street transmitter site

Output	Input	Type	Tone	License	Use
37.46	37.46	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.48	37.48	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.62	37.62	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.66	37.66	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.7	37.7	BM	146.2	KYL340	Power dispatcher
37.74	37.74	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.76	37.76	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.82	37.82	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.86	37.86	BM	?	KYL340	?

PPL Lehigh County - South Mountain and Hausman Road transmitter sites

Output	Input	Type	Tone	License	Use
37.62	37.62	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.66	37.66	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.7	37.7	BM	146.2	KYL340	Power dispatcher
37.74	37.74	BM	?	KYL340	?
37.86	37.86	BM	?	KYL340	?

PPL Lehigh County - Allentown Headquarters

Output	 Input	 Type	Tone	License	Use
451.675 456.675 RM	146.2	KYL340	Security
451.2	 456.2	 RM	146.2	KYL340	Operations

PPL Generating Stations: generating stations include PPL Susquehanna NGS in Berwick; coal-fired power plants in Johnstown (2), Brunner Island / York Haven, and Montour / Washingtonville; hydroelectric plants at Holtwood and Wallenpaupack; natural gas / oil in Martin’s Creek (2); and 23 remotely operated combustion turbines controlled from headquarters, scattered around central and eastern PA. As expected, the combustion turbines provide peaking power and emergency power during high load demands. More recently, wind turbines were installed near Scranton (see All sites are listed on the PPL website, hence this is all publically available information.

PPL Generation  	 451.0375	Luzerne and Northampton Counties
PPL Generation  	 451.0875	Luzerne and Northampton Counties
PPL Generation	 	 451.3875 	Luzerne and Northampton Counties
PPL Generation	 	 451.4750	Luzerne and Northampton Counties