Yep, sure, just last week in my region (Bas du Fleuve), i heard traffic on UTAC-Q2 (418.1375)… but wasn’t able to locate the town. They were talking about a fire exercise and condition of their trucks after.
So it is one more reason that I keep these V and U freqs alive in my scanners.
Yep, sure, just last week in my region (Bas du Fleuve), i heard traffic on UTAC-Q2 (418.1375)… but wasn’t able to locate the town. They were talking about a fire exercise and condition of their trucks after.
So it is one more reason that I keep these V and U freqs alive in my scanners.
Mmmmmm… 800MHz is not used much in the province. maybe in Montreal the 800 Tac *may* be used (I haven’t checked), but outside Montreal I don’t think it’s used, as VHF is more common.
In fact, if you lookup ISDE radio licences database, there are quite a few towns and cities that have the 8 VTAC frequencies licensed to them.
VTAC and UTAC are usually use as simplex frequencies (around 1-2 KM range) but some fire department might have the same frequencies with another CTCSS for their dispatch. In my city they will use UTAC-1 for exercises and when they're on a fire.
I already saw a 5th alarm fire where they were using 3 UTAC simplex frequencies (UTAC-1,UTAC-2 and UTAC-3)
