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Itinerant Business Freqs used for Public Safety

BlueDevil

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Check out Section 90.267g which provides for nationwide on a coordinated basis licensing of low power public safety frequencies.
If I am reading and understanding this section correctly, it only applies to UHF1 frequencies.
 

PrivatelyJeff

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Same thing down here. Finding a free VHF pair has been impossible. Too many regional trunked systems that refuse to release the old VHF pairs, "just in case". I know some have been trying to grab Part 22 frequencies as those sort of come free.

It think that unless any licensee can show documentation on actual usage of a frequency, they should be forced to give it up after a period.
 

IC-R20

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Someone posted on here once about hearing I think it was Fire Department traffic on 464.55 and ended up DFing it to a firefighters car that had an in vehicle repeater, can't remember if it was because the main frequency was in the 40 MHz range so it was done for using handhelds.
 

DeeEx

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I don’t know the current regulations but 20+ years ago when lots of municipalities (police at least) were still on low band, 43.04 was programmed by a certain shop where I lived. It served as an unpublished discreet frequency between officers and departments. That was running 110W PEP mobile…I believe the limit was/is 2W PEP.
 

nd5y

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I don’t know the current regulations but 20+ years ago when lots of municipalities (police at least) were still on low band, 43.04 was programmed by a certain shop where I lived. It served as an unpublished discreet frequency between officers and departments. That was running 110W PEP mobile…I believe the limit was/is 2W PEP.
Currently 43.04 is only limited to itinerant use. There is no additional power limit. It was probably always like that.
 

DeoVindice

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I don’t know the current regulations but 20+ years ago when lots of municipalities (police at least) were still on low band, 43.04 was programmed by a certain shop where I lived. It served as an unpublished discreet frequency between officers and departments. That was running 110W PEP mobile…I believe the limit was/is 2W PEP.
My company is licensed for 330W ERP on 43.04...
 
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