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Fire districts around here are using CDM1550's for mobiles and the horrid HT1250's for portables.

City of Yakima fire is using CDM1550's for mobiles and XTS2500's limited keypad for portables.

City of Yakima Police uses HT750's & HT1250's for portables and M/A-Com's for mobiles.

County Sheriff uses MCS2000's for mobiles and HT1250's for portables and beginning to phase in XPR 6500's.

AMR Ambulance is using HT1250's for portables and MCS2000's for mobiles, both UHF & VHF.

ALS Ambulance is using TK-2170's for portables and TK-7180's for mobiles. (the only wise ones IMHO)

Pretty tone capable if you ask me, I think it's just a lack of knowledge of how PL's really work on radio man's part so they are scared to use them. My fire districts does their own programming so it wouldn't be hard, just time consuming to re-program everything. But in my opinion, it'd be worth it to not have to listen to yet another thing when screaming to a fire with enough things going on.