Likelihood of x00.0000 allocations?

[Jay911]

Greetings all,

I'm not sure where I should have asked this - it's possibly a Canadian thing, but it's also a general scanning question.

In an attempt to sleuth out some new valid frequencies, I'm programming in a bunch of stuff from the TAFL - the Technical & Administrative Frequency List, the Canadian version of the government (FCC) frequency list.

One of the agencies I am programming in has a number of licenses across several bands for specific frequencies, but the last two licenses are for 400.0000mhz and 1000.0000mhz respectively. What's the likelihood of actually being assigned/using those frequencies, or should I suspect these licenses are 'blanket' ones to cover usage of anything in the 400mhz and 1000mhz area of the spectrum?

(Keep in mind this is in Canada - US band plans don't apply.)

Thanks folks!

 

[Voyager]

Greetings all,

I'm not sure where I should have asked this - it's possibly a Canadian thing, but it's also a general scanning question.

In an attempt to sleuth out some new valid frequencies, I'm programming in a bunch of stuff from the TAFL - the Technical & Administrative Frequency List, the Canadian version of the government (FCC) frequency list.

One of the agencies I am programming in has a number of licenses across several bands for specific frequencies, but the last two licenses are for 400.0000mhz and 1000.0000mhz respectively. What's the likelihood of actually being assigned/using those frequencies, or should I suspect these licenses are 'blanket' ones to cover usage of anything in the 400mhz and 1000mhz area of the spectrum?

(Keep in mind this is in Canada - US band plans don't apply.)

Thanks folks!

400 MHz, very likely. Don't your regular PD channels run down to around 400 MHz? 1000 MHz, not sure.

Your blanket idea is possible, too. Licenses like that are issues in the USA for demo licenses - They are licensed for the frequency at the bottom of the band. That would seems to coincide with your area quite well. The only way to know for certain is to monitor them.

Joe M.

 

[Jay911]

Don't your regular PD channels run down to around 400 MHz?

Local city police are on 800mhz trunk systems. RCMP in this province use 155mhz conventional. Other provincial police use a 140mhz trunk.

The lower half of 400mhz (403-430) around here is mainly Fire and EMS, with oilfield telemetry in and around the 410.x area.

Anyway - the only other licenses I've seen in the government listings that specify just the band boundaries are the 800mhz cell frequencies.

I don't know if it's relevant, but the licensee in question in my original post is General Dynamics, with most of their freqs in low VHF, and military bands, and licensed to be used in the area of local military/air bases.

 

[DaveH]

Jay, I looked at the TAFL record and it probably is that one frequency. Sometimes for cellular etc. where there are too many to list and could be anywhere within a well-defined range (e.g. 869-894) they will just state the limits. There would not be any PDs etc below 403MHz (or is it 406) in Canada and the US also I think. There are environmental allocations around 400MHz, so the above may be an exception.

Dave