Do you monitor 146.52?

In a recent Amateur Radio Emergency Services Newsletter, this announcement appeared.

Vermont Section Manager Paul Gayet, AA1SU, has announced a 2 Meter Vermont Simplex Frequency to be used as a central gathering point for potential emergency/disaster response situations -- 146.490 MHz. 

The Central Vermont Amateur Radio Club has been using this frequency to meet on after their Sunday evening net on the local repeater. They have had great success with it. 

The value of having a standard simplex frequency is to have a place to go to in the event that local repeaters are off the air during an emergency or disaster response. Vermont radio amateurs are being asked to program the frequency into all 2-meter radios and use it/test it regularly with another operator within range. 

Operators are also asked to program the frequency into their radio's priority watch function if available. - Vermont Section News

While traveling, monitoring 146.52 has produced some nice contacts.  Of course, sideband operators on 144.2 have been doing this for a long time.  “Voice Alert works perfectly for simplex calling.” 

Joel, N5LXI, has produced this table of two-meter frequencies:

1 146.43 

2 146.46 

3 146.49 

4 146.52 National Calling

5 146.55 

6 146.58 

7 147.42 

8 147.45 

9 147.48 

10 147.51 

11 147.54 

12 147.57

The National Calling frequency on 440 is 446.000.

Do you monitor a simplex frequency in addition to your local repeater?