[Scan-DC] Analog Virginia State Police transmission on 700 MHz

[Andrew Clegg]

For my birthday last week, my XYL got me a Bearcat 996T for the car. Over
the weekend, I took a very long (20 hour) car trip and got to play with the
996T quite a bit in analog mode (I haven't tackled digital yet). It is an
amazing piece of hardware.

Late last night (Monday night), I was driving back to DC out on I-66, and
passed what I believe was a VSP officer on a motorist assist, on the
shoulder. Just as I passed, my close-call fired up, and tuned into the
officer reporting the assist, in analog FM voice on a 764 MHz frequency.
While I am aware that public safety is moving a lot of their operations to
700 MHz, I was very surprised to hear analog on the very new channels. RR
reports this frequency as part of the VSP APCO 25 system, but I would have
thought it would have been digital from the get-go. Is anyone on Scan-DC
able to provide some background on the VSP's use of 700 MHz?

Thanks!
Andy