I know that on my little ft60 I can pick up some activity on 800 megs and 
I'm just using my 2 meter antenna. Here in Toronto mostly the police use 800 
megs. Accept I don't have anything programmed in the memories so I mostly 
turn the dial until I hear something which sometimes, takes a while.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Hampton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 10:12 AM
Subject: i wonder why


i wonder why i can't recieve the frequcies 8533.200 on the kenwood =
tmv71a the other to are 851.125 485.775 i put them in my rig to see if i =
could recieve anything on them heard nothing on them. does this mean i =
have a recieve antenna cut for the three frequencies or will the =
eggbeater antennas work on them?=20

best regards from walter wb6jtj p.s. will a radio shack scanner pick up =
the frequencies? i was just wondering i guess this is off topic.