The real unfortunate part of this whole situation is how well the VHF trunked system worked. Since most of the rural Nevada counties use VHF, the NHP had interoperability with everyone except some Las Vegas agencies and in Washoe County. Whoever decided not to license the frequencies involved in the VHF system not only wasted about $15 million, but also left a legacy of liability for correcting this "oversight". It was interesting that the communications people for the State of Nevada then stated there were not sufficient numbers of VHF frequencies available to reprogram the system. If there weren't enough frequencies in Nevada for a statewide VHF trunked system it would be difficult to imagine any state except for Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming which would have sufficient frequencies for such as system. I think the vendors of 800 MHz trunked systems ripped Nevada off. First they seemed to remain silent when programming the VHF system with non-licensed frequencies and then probably pushed the use of the EDACS system which very few agencies were using. With the state on EDACS it would seem to give a push to local agencies to convert to 800 MHz trunking, inertia which will be beneficial to the vendors.
There must be something here that I'm not understanding.