Realistic PRO-50 - Guide to Canadian Action Bands

GUIDE TO CANADIAN ACTION BANDS
(20-307, available in Canada Only)
With the right frequencies programmed into your PRO-50,
you can monitor exciting events. With a little investigation,
you can find active frequencies in your community. We can
give you some general pointers, and you can take it from
there. Please use caution and common sense when you
hear an emergency call. Never go to the scene of an emer¬
gency. It could be very dangerous.
Find out if there is a local club that monitors your commu¬
nity’s frequencies. Perhaps a local electronics repair shop
that works on equipment similar to your scanner can give
you frequencies used by local radio services.
As a general rule on VHF, most activity is concentrated be¬
tween 153.785 and 155.98 MHz and then again from 158.73
to 159.46 MHz. Here you find local government, police, fire,
and most such emergency services. If you are near a rail¬
road yard or major railroad tracks, look around 160.215 to
161.565 MHz for signals.
In many larger cities, there has been a move to the UHF
bands for emergency service. Here, most of the activity is
between 453.025 and 453.95 MHz and between 456.025
and 467.925 MHz.
In the UHF band, frequencies between 456.025 and 459.95
MHz and between 465.025 and 469.975 MHz are used by
mobile units and control stations associated with base and
repeater units that operate 5 MHz lower (that is, 451.025 to
454.95 MHz and 460.025 to 464.975 MHz). This means that
if you find an active frequency inside one of these spreads,
you can look 5 MHz lower (or higher) to find the base sta¬
tion/repeater for that service.