[Boatanchors] 1937

[Carl]

>
>>     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

It started that way but after WW2 they started talking back. I remember the 
Nassau County police used the 1.7mc area in the mid 50's and they didnt have 
any call boxes as did the city areas.With just  short length of wire on an 
old wood table radio I didnt hear the cars that often but the base 
transmitter was just 2 towns away.

Carl
KM1H