frmboybuck said:
99.99999999999999% of all public service units have gone UHF, VHF, Lowband, Trunking....Update your reading material CW. Its outdated. Most of what you are talking about was above 30MHz anyway. Quite frankly your information stinks.
Son, my info is NOT outdated. Read it again. If you read it carefully, I told you WHY those frequencies are used, HOW they are used, and to what purpose. It is NOT "reading material". Once again, for those who are not informationally challenged, much of that agency's communications IS on VHF.
There is quite a difference between jabber-jabber yakking for the sake of yakking and what is called FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT. Part of the job is allocating frequency resources according to:
1. Mission
2. Traffic
3. Resources
In order to do that, a frequency may be chosen, NOT for the long-held mantra of CB radio "gittin' out", but in order to CONTROL content AND distance. If you have 5 aircraft in the air, 5 ground search teams to coordinate, 8 flight line attendants, 4 messengers with handhelds, the tracking personnel for tote boards, and finally, the mission staff, VHF can get crowded quickly. The result is either interference, missed information, and a general slowdown in the progress of the mission. LIVES are at stake. So a low-power, short range--even AM--circuit may be chosen to relieve the VHF circuits for the mission base personnel. Once again, there is an advantage in using the older technology equipment below CB channel 1 in that, it IS low power, only needs to cover maybe 100 yards, cuts down interference to OTHER units, AND thwarts the news media who *may* be trying to listen into the mission, perhaps showing up at an active crash site--even releasing the fact that a crash has occurred before the proper people can notify the families. The old "name withheld pending notification of next of kin" routine. The news hounds CAN be very insensitive at times; all they care about is getting their bloody story. With low power AM their scanners are not as likely to know what is up until the proper time. Sometimes the CAP folks use SSB which further thwarts their efforts to evesdrop. VHF is readily monitored with scanners.
Now I realize that Mr. Farmboy sees it only from the standpoint of a CBer whose only interest is yapping away. He firmly believes that he should be yakking on the "freeband" because he has a vested interest, sees it from the standpoint of the popular CB viewpoint, and knows little if anything about professional communications, and no understanding of the real reasons why freebanders should not be treading on those "funny" channels. High frequency communications may be chosen for a variety of reasons--all basically tied to the things I listed above. The 26 MHZ frequencies ARE used by those folks around here, and I have first hand knowledge of a fellow that felt that he, too, had a "rah't" to tawk on them channels
. So happened there WAS a search for a missing aircraft in progress. He got hit for a couple of grand which was a LOT at the time and durn near went to jail over it. He was messing up the ground crew people and they were ready to jerk someone up and slap the dog(censored) out of him!
So stay away from down there. True, you might get away with it for a time, but then................................................. is it really worth it? I can guarantee that if you were in this area, and start talking on CAP's frequencies, you will find yourself in serious trouble QUICK! There is a VERY active squadron in the area and they won't take kindly to interlopers--same as the hams finding CBers on the 10 Meter band!
73 all
CWM
