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Note: Some cities use the 470-512 MHz band for land/mobile ser-
vices.
HAM RADIO FREQUENCIES
Ham radio operators often broadcast emergency information
when other means of communications break down.
The following chart shows the voice frequencies you can monitor.
NATIONAL WEATHER FREQUENCIES
All of the following frequencies except 162.440 are programmed
into your scanner’s weather band.
Note: You can still manually tune to 162.440 (see “Searching For
and Storing Active Frequencies” on Page 21).
Wavelen
g
th
(meters)
Search Band Frequenc
y
Ran
g
e (MHz)
10 meters 0 29.000 29.700
6 meters 1 50.100 54.000
2 meters 4 144.100 148.000
70 centimeters 7 420.000 450.000
161.650 MHz 162.425 MHz 162.475 MHz 162.550 MHz
161.775 MHz 162.440 MHz 162.500 MHz 163.275 MHz
162.400 MHz 162.450 MHz 162.525 MHz
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