Or you could be like Portland when they got their 800 MHz system. They took out all their VHF radios that spring (back in the 90's).
What happened? They got deployed that summer for several conflagrations across the Northwest. HHMM... I just don't know why my 800 MHz radio won't work past the Metro area. They had to use 3 watt simplex mode. Just didn't do too well with the mountains and hills in the fire area of where their strike teams were deployed.
Now they have a cache of portable radios (on VHF) that they send out with them. Most units got VHF radios installed again so they would have the interoperability with outlying agencies and for strike team deployment across the state.
Cost them more in the long run since they had to allocate new radios since they either sold or disposed of the old stuff back then.
Hindsight is 20/20 at times. This time I think that the hindsight was more like 20/800 in this case.
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