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Around here 2m repeaters outnumber 70cm by a factor of 3 or more.
Outside of town in our wooded area we find 2m has a fairly significant distance advantage over 70cm given same power levels. A lot of people don't run high grade coax that makes the difference for fringe reception on more lossy (relative to 2m) 70cm. Even more pronounced when running 70-80W 2m radios.
However the guys on 70cm talk more freely - seems they think fewer people are listening! Which is true. We did a preparedness radio demo recently and the semi-rural radio traffic on 70cm about today's politics was raising some eyebrows haha It was awesome.
If the budget allows, and if your local digital traffic is not encrypted, you might enjoy a digital scanner more.
I like having a fast scanner running, especially the FRS/GMRS freqs. Back when I was university popo I would have an FRS/GMRS radio on the dash scanning, mostly for auto burglary lookouts.
I'm hoping to soon be far from any place where there's constant ham/public safety radio traffic though...
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