YC 1 wrote:
Repeaters for police and fire will not pick up cell phone signals. If you are meaning their actual communications channels.
They use different frequencies and modulation techniques.
Where you live in the flat lands they have no reason to but we live in Siskiyou County, Calif. We have over 6,347 sq miles in the county and most of the area is mts with small valleys ect and less than 40,000 people. With cell phone service only in a few areas and along 1-5 whitch cover only a small part of the county. I have infact had a 911 call answered from a repeater station when we found a lost child in the high country while in a no service area. Many of the newer repeaters will but they are in areas with few people. And you are right you can not access the police or fire calls or radios as they do use different communication channels.