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800 MHz = Cellular?

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Greetings y'all. Do I understand correctly that 800 MHZ radios like the Motorola MTX LS's (Model H01UCC6DU3AN) which run in the 806-870 MHz range are actually running in a frequency band assigned to cellular telephony? What would an MTX-LS radio be "good for"?

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In the US, the cellular band is 869-894 & 824-849 MHz
and the land mobile band is 851-869 & 806-824 MHz

I don't know what that particular radio covers or what it is good for.

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No, radios in the 800 band are not really 806 to 870. They are:

Mobile TX: 806 to 824

Mobile RX: 851 to 869

Nextel has individual frequencies in those ranges and that's why there is such a big problem with Nextel interfering with Public Safety. The channels that Nextel uses fall within the pass band of the front end filtering of 800 MHz radios.

Other 800 MHz cellular providers (A carriers and B carriers) are licensed for contiguous chunks of spectrum that are separate from the 800 MHz radios. Because of that the 800 MHz radios have front end filtering that greatly reduces interference from A and B cellular carriers.
 
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