HAM Question- What are the "2m" and "70m" frequencies/channels?

[alnen]

I have always just pushed to talk on the fire department radio- the channels were already there for me.

After watching a tutorial, they taught how to locate local repeaters and add them, and the same for weather channels, and then they also wanted me to add 2m and 70m. Are these ranges of frequencies? Trying to learn this stuff. Thanks.

 

[Double R]

Old Eman

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[alnen]

I'm closing in on answers by diving in to radio manuals. The 2 and the 70 ranges are for vhf versus uhf (frequency bands). It's connecting some of the dots i learned in recruit school- in the fire academy we had to know things like uhf was better for urban and vhf was better for outdoors (generally). Then in the field, you just keyed up to talk, switched to preset channels for fireground comms, sometimes had to wait for the white shirts to stop talking to give an on scene fire report, and had to know the general dead zones of the county.

Now, I learned how to program local repeaters and they are in place, and I'm going to manually add a few more for likely traveled routes in an emergency. I've also got the weather channels put in too!

Much to learn, but it's starting to make sense. If I can learn it, you can too!

 

[greg vess]

My father like myself went head first into every hobby he engaged in. He had a HAM set up with some massive power booster. Everytime he keyed the mike on that thing the cable TV went out on everybody on The block. This was before Sat. TV. LOL