Folks, these are basic national standards....comply with them!
Does any agency actually use these frequencies? Here in N.E. Ohio I can't name one agency that even monitors these channels.
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Mine does.
It's not a question of "monitoring" the channels or "using" the channels, it's a question of at least having them in your radios so that if the day ever comes where your agency goes to, or calls in assistance from, anyone else beside your usual mutual aid partners, you can have - at minimum initially - simplex communications with them if you have the UHF band in common with them. Same thing applies to the VCall/VTacs and the 8Call/8Tacs.
The web site shows all the freqs but I thought the PL 156.7 was good for UCall too?
Yes it is, on both tx and rx. Just make sure your radio operators know how to put the radio into csq rx mode (and, of course, that the radio is capable of going into that mode) so that if the need should arise that you have to talk with someone who has the frequencies in their radios but for some bizarre reason did not put 156.7 on at least the tx side - you would be able to hear and talk to them too.
SCANdal