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ooohhh get rid of that awful dial up VHF and go to super fast 800

I like how these systems are defined

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick ... 02490.html

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It takes just as many 800 receivers to "hear" an area using portables on 800 as it does for VHF. And visa versa. People need to build their systems for portable coverage and not just for the much better performing mobiles.

One thing VHF mobiles have over VHF portables is the antenna system. Once you get to 450, that becomes less true so a UHF portable will outperform its VHF counterpart.

Interoperability though is priceless.

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As i recall, 800 is supposed to suffer absorbtion issues in areas with lots of green trees, etc. Not a real concern in the tri-cities...

I've heard that too. And yes, not a real problem in the tri-cities.

Before we went to our VHF simulcast system for fire, we paid a radio communications analysist an exhorbant amount of money to come in evaluate the needs of our county. With the response areas of our rural fire deparements being in forrested areas (Nile, Naches, Tampico etc.) 800 and even 700 would have just absolutely died in those areas. I'm still interested to know what YSO, YPD and YFD are going to do when they have to re-band their VHF repeaters coming up here soon. I haven't heard anything in the works for either of those agencies except the Sheriff's Office who just licensed a new narrowband VHF repeater up in the north-west part of the county. (Goose Prairie) I have yet to hear anything on that new pair of freqs or even what they're going to do with it.

If we were to talk about interoperability, with say Benton or Franklin County or even the same county and the bill that's going through our local state government at the moment, agencies responding to a fire will all be required by law to respond on the same frequency. :bowrofl: :puke: :stupid:

chpalmer, isn't it funny and sickening at the same time, that we pay these local officials to say and think up that kind of stuff!?

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