Nuts. Most of the emergency services have switched to 700 MHz P25 or 800 MHz Motorola trunked bands, but kept the VHF/UHF bands as backups. That means a trunk tracking scanner ($$$). The civilian emergency services (CERT, REACT, ARES/RACES) are all on the 2M or 70cm ham bands with CTCSS tones.

Is there any real value in monitoring those?

Also, does anybody know a quick way to boost FM radio reception? I can pick up AM signals clearly from 80 miles out, but FM is less then half that.
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