In the winter months, its not uncommon to receive the California Highway Patrol, here in Michigan on VHF-Low band. However, the furthest that I have received must have been somewhere in China on 37.36 MHz, back 30 years ago. Several users were on that channel talking in Cantonese, which is a southern dialect in China. I had no idea what they were saying, but they were making it very hard for our local Sheriff's Dept. to talk with any of their units.
73's
Ron