That's a good question? Forgive me I have a question as well how much does one of these turbo walkie talkies cost? They told us that they go for about $1300.00 and if we loose one we get suspended for two days! My retort would be why do we need digital encrypted radios for day to day operations at a sewerage plant?! The Newark police uses UHF and they have more traffic over the airwaves than we do.
Remember that the quoted $1300 figure isn't just for the radio, but for the whole package, the radio, accessories, programming, cost of processing the order, cost of processing the radio once received (adding it to the inventory, labeling it "property of ...", etc.), cost of your supervisor's grief requesting a replacement radio, cost of your supervisor's supervisor's grief requesting a replacement radio, etc., etc., etc.
Not to mention the costs associated with processing the lost radio, flagging it as lost, programming the system to no longer recognize it or allow it on the system, etc., etc., etc. (Just because they don't actually do those tasks, doesn't at all relate to what they charge to do them.)
