Television Frequencies

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The audio channels should be monitored in Wideband FM (WFM) mode. Each audio channel uses 100 kHz bandwidth.

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Channel number	Video freq.	Audio freq.	Lower edge	Upper edge

• (1) 470 - 512 MHz channels 14 - 20 are used for land mobile radio (UHF-T band) only in the following metropolitan areas:
  • (a) Boston, MA
  • (b) Chicago, IL
  • (c) Cleveland, OH
  • (d) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
  • (e) Detroit, MI
  • (f) Houston, TX
  • (g) Los Angeles, CA
  • (h) Miami, FL
  • (i) New York, NY
  • (j) Philadelphia, PA
  • (k) Pittsburgh, PA
  • (l) San Francisco, CA
  • (m) Washington, DC
• (2) 608 - 614 MHz channel 37 is reserved for radio astronomy.
• (3) TV broadcasters will vacate 746 - 806 MHz channels 60 - 69 in 2009.
• (4) 806 - 890 MHz channels 70 - 83 no longer used for TV broadcasting.

• Some TV stations are offset + or - 10 kHz (.01 MHz) from the normal frequencies.