Here VHF still used. Utilities, railroad, marine,smaller fire dept still use it mostly for tone paging. Most dispatching has moved to UHF or 800mhz (soon to move to 700)mostly trunking. Hams still have 2m 144-148mhz and 430-450 mhz the to most used bands here. Railroads use 460 for their ETD (caboose lol) but 160-161mhz for voice and control. Robert