Certainly in Europe and in a few countries elsewhere, the 4m (70MHz) band is being allocated to the Amateur Service. Lower VHF is not so popular for PMR users as antennas are quite large. There is a real chance of more widespread amateur allocations at 4m. This is an interesting band which has decent tropo ranges and Es openings especially in the summer months.
See http://www.70mhz.org/
Also daily random MS QSOs out to 1200km and more, lots of activity on 70.280 MSK144 and FSK441 using MSHV software
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