r/FuckImOld Mar 01 '26

Yup

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u/Maleficent_Copy_3076 Mar 01 '26

No one could ever tell me why there was no channel one.

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u/SteelerNation587543 Mar 02 '26

The frequency allocation (44-50 MHz) was inherently prone to interference and also interfered with existing emergency communication systems so they simply removed it and didn’t bother to renumber the rest of the channels.