It won't give you what you need when a major disaster comes and you can't talk to anyone but your own county units because everyone else will be on VIPER. that or you're going to have to be issued VIPER radios for the duration of the event which means your system will be pretty much quiet. In the end, you guys could have bought VIPER radios for less money and been on a system where you actually have interop instead of having to use patches, which suck.
There are ways to do it. If the system is setup correctly using gateways you will never be able to tell who's using what unless your looking at the radio the user is using. This can be done at the system level or your COML's can do it via their gateways. VIPER was never meant to be a counties main communication system for every county in the state, Its built under the premise of Interoperbility throughout the state, I'm guessing since you work for SHP you know that
They won't work on VIPER.
In the current state no, with the move to P25 and the 4 sites already working on P25 then yes the Unity's will work.
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