<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div>Albeit off-topic, this is a really interesting read for a person from Europe, where all of these networks have moved to different bands and technologies.<br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>rad0<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jack R" <roperjw@live.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, 6 September, 2016 01:13:18<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [chirp_users] The VHF low band is still in use<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
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Actually about 10 or so states still use vhf low, plus the Red Cross for disaster operations. Also wireless milkes. Transmitters up to 500 watts are </span><br>
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On Sep 5, 2016, at 5:41 PM, David <<a href="mailto:weather@lightingunlimited.com" target="_blank">weather@lightingunlimited.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>That is amazing, I thought the FCC pretty much told all agencies that they WILL switch to trunked 800 band systems as well as go to narrow band on anything else they use as back up channels.</p>
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One of the largest police agencies, with thousands of radios, and covering one of the largest geographical areas, still uses VHF low band, and has absolutely no plans on moving, or changing. That is the California Highway Patrol. (CHP).
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