[Boatanchors] 1937

mlangen lmlangenfeld at tds.net
Tue Nov 30 18:15:03 EST 2010


>     The police used a couple of bands, one was just above
>     the broadcast band,

If memory serves, that allocation was for one-way dispatch only.  If a car 
had to communicate with the dispatcher, it had to stop at the nearest call 
box and telephone in.

I seem to remember listening in to these dispatches as a kid as they wafted 
in from all over the place after dark.  That was in the 1950s and very early 
'60s. Public service VHF radio (high and low bands) was in widespread use by 
then, but some of these systems must have survived well into the transition 
period.

Mark -- WA9ETW 



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