I took the plunge into com's at last!

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Well done Midnight. Way to go!

Re PMR446 frequencies, your radio will not transmit on those frequencies, but you'll be able to tune it to monitor them.

Manually dial in the closest frequency to 446.00625 Mhz ( channel1) that your radio will accept. Set frequency step to 12.5khz ( that is the spacing between PMR446 channels). So then, every click of the frequency dial will jump to approximately the next PMR446 channel. You won't be perfectly aligned to the PMR446 channel frequencies, but should be close enough to hear them clearly.