[BC] Cop car antenna: Low band VHF?

[John Holt]

The Detroit Police Department bought a Western Electric transmitter from 
Graybar in 1926.  The call letters were KOP.

John M. Holt
Director of Engineering and Operations
WAMU-American University
Washington, DC 20016
202-885-1242
jholt at wamu.org
http://www.wamu.org

broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net wrote on 03/31/2009 05:55:33 AM:

> 
> From: "Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> 
>  The big problem with Low band VHF is skip, especially
> during the summer months.
> 
> -D
> 
> I used to know the MI State Police head communications officer as we 
> were both in the CAP together.  He always bragged about how his lo 
> band systems were never bothered by skip.
> 
> One day while reviewing the FCC regs I came across a table of which lo 
> band freqs. were allocated to the different states.
> 
> Most states shared freqs. with one or two other states but MI's freqs. 
> weren't shared with any other state, hence no possibility of skip.
> 
> If I remember my history the Detroit PD was the first to have "Radio 
> Cars" with receivers only and a freq. just above the broadcast band. 
> The dispatcher would put out a general call and hopefully the closest 
> car would respond.
> 
> I remember listening to the police calls in Detroit in the late '40's 
> on my Grandmothers table radio.
> 
> The DPD had a radio "Lab" (repair shop) on Belle Isle in the Detroit 
> River and I interviewed there in '64 for a job but wasn't politically 
> connected enough to get hired, plus you had to become a cop.
> 
> Ron D
> 
> 
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