In article , dxAce wrote:


Jim Hackett wrote:

In California, the Highway patrol live in the 42 Mhz range. There are also
cordless phones and channel 2 audio. Quite a bit to listen to actually...

And as others have noted, when the skip is in during the high sunspot periods it
can be a lot of fun. I've heard the CHP here many times.

That's a good reason why anyone else allocated those frequencies
probably shifted up to the 400-500 MHz bands as soon as they could
afford to.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident