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Madison Fire Dept. Tech Rescue along with other MFD units were called out to Deerfield (Dane co.) to assist Deerfield FD with a silo entrapment. The comm center patched MFD FGND 3 (trunking 800 mhz) up with Deerfield on the county (vhf) frequency B-Baker (FGND-ops). How would MFD be able to use their radios that far out of the city via the trunking system? One would think that 800 mhz use would be confined to the city ... due to the characteristics of the 800-900 mhz spectrum ... unless their are towers out there ...
Thanks,
Lars