[BC] Cop car antenna: Low band VHF?

[Dana Puopolo]

Many State Police Departments use(d) low band VHF because of it's incredibly
long range. The Mass State Police used to use it and they used four base sites
to cover the entire Mass Turnpike. They also used to have in car repeaters to
enable the troopers to use portable radios. They now operate on 805 mHz
trunked with many sites. The big problem with Low band VHF is skip, especially
during the summer months.

-D

From: "Ronald J. Dot'o Sr." <ron.doto at comcast.net>

When I left Michigan in'76 the MI State Police were still using lo 
band VHF.  I used to have a scanner with their freq. in it.  I don't 
remember the exact freq. but the allocation tabels for the different 
states lo band police freqs. used to be in the FCC regs under the 
public saftey part.  I'll leave the research to you.

Ron D