Are there any active low band freqs in SE FL? I never hear anything from there on low band even when I am hearing FL beacons on six meters.
Not much here in Florida. South FL Water Management on 31 MHz, DOT on 47 (good area to listen), and Emergency Management on 39 (little traffic) are about it. All are listed in the database. FL police left low band many years ago (70's) and are always pushing for higher freqs with lower range (stupid). They did the VHF HI thing (worked well but they wanted a million channels), the UHF thing (not great range in the FL pine trees), and are now on 2nd generation 800 trunked systems (five times the towers needed to cover the same area as Low Band). What next? 700 third generation trunked??? :roll:
Seems they have no problem spending tax payer money on new toy radios all the time. None work better than the low band radios of the 70's! The real problem with "aging" radio systems is BAD MAINTENANCE. If they paid a "good" tech a living wage for his quality workmanship and care, the systems would work fine. But NO, they shortchange the service end of it and dump millions upon millions on new systems every 10 years or so. Someone must be getting a huge kickback for all this expensive overcomplicated trunked garbage.
Phil
