fires999
Member
Good Morning,
I was just wondering as a rough percentage how many Police and Fire Departments still use Low-Band frequencies ?
Here in the UK I fondly remember when conditions favoured , I could have the scanner on around 42mhz listening to Police and Fire comms.
Like yourselves , our Emergency Services migrated to a digital radio network (TETRA based) but I was shocked when reading a popular US radio magazine online that in a regular article that selects a different State each month , it showed Police using Low band frequencies I think between 32 and 40 mhz ?
Thanks in advance for any comments - Just for the record , my radio history is a UK firefighter since 94 we used 70mhz in am mode and since 2013, I am still a firefighter however I am now based on a USAF Base in the East of England using P25
K
I was just wondering as a rough percentage how many Police and Fire Departments still use Low-Band frequencies ?
Here in the UK I fondly remember when conditions favoured , I could have the scanner on around 42mhz listening to Police and Fire comms.
Like yourselves , our Emergency Services migrated to a digital radio network (TETRA based) but I was shocked when reading a popular US radio magazine online that in a regular article that selects a different State each month , it showed Police using Low band frequencies I think between 32 and 40 mhz ?
Thanks in advance for any comments - Just for the record , my radio history is a UK firefighter since 94 we used 70mhz in am mode and since 2013, I am still a firefighter however I am now based on a USAF Base in the East of England using P25
K