Monitoring In Germany

[ButchGone]

Planning a trip to Wolfsburg Germany soon, which is in Lower Saxony. Last time I was in Germany (1990's) a lot of police/emergency services could be heard in the 86-88Mhz range. Have they jumped on the digital bandwagon and to higher frequencies? What can be monitored now? Will my amateur HT work there or are their bands different? Any help would be appreciated. Of course any laws regarding listening there would help to. Thanks in advance!
BG..

 

[Tophtoh]

Germany has not switched over yet. They are in the process of upgrading to a TETRA radio system. Not sure when they'll go. I read 2010 somewhere and 2012 somewhere else. Here is an article:

http://www.tetramou.com/tetramou.aspx?id=2754

Germany's Police, Fire and EMS are all on the same radio system. So those frequencies that worked before will work now also, until they make the switch. I've heard some rumors of testing but not extensive use of the new system yet. Hope this was helpful!

Tschüss!

 

[SCPD]

Check out this earlier post
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31211

Sometimes you have to set the display option to the beginning to see all the post due the fact there is little Europe activity under Europe

 

[v-v]

Germany's Police, Fire and EMS

Frequencies:

84.0150MHz- 87.2550MHz Range
172.1400MHz- 173.9800MHz Range

Digital tetra system ( can not be monitored) 380Mhz-400Mhz Range for Police, Fire, EMS in Europe.
But Germany still works analog until 2010.

Waring: In Germany it's ilegal to listen to BOS (police,fire,ems) Frequencies!