Maine government agencies now have access to frequencies normally reserved...
Maine government agencies now have access to frequencies normally reserved for transportation needs, said attorney Robert Gurss of Fletcher Heald on the firm’s blog Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bogr2n). The law firm represented the state of Maine and Harris Corp., the post said.…
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“The VHF [150-170 MHz] band has propagation characteristics that make it ideal for land mobile radio use in sparsely populated, mountainous, and heavily forested areas,” the blog post said. “Other available land mobile frequency bands, such as UHF and 700 MHz, require far more transmitter sites to provide comparable coverage.” These VHF public safety assignments are not common and are “limited, especially in areas near the Canadian and Mexican borders,” it added. Maine contracts with Harris on a statewide VHF network, however, and the FCC granted a waiver for the network to use these frequencies normally intended for railroad companies earlier this February (http://bit.ly/UfRTib), the post said.