Thank you for the info it is very helpful
One more question if you don't mind does the taxi cab authority operate on their own frequency Im a newbe to Las Vegas trying to get my gear set back up
If you knew how much utter BS that guy gave you, you wouldn't thank him.
The old LVMPD VHF system has a few of the channels used by the few units that still have VHF radios, but the repeaters are off the air & they use the old channels in simplex-mode for their BS'ing, surveillances, etc. The exception is the 158.790MHz/CTCSS 77.0 'Admin' channel, which still has the repeater on the air & is cross-patched to the new 700MHz LVMPD system equivalent. One story is that they've just been too lazy to turn the repeater off, but I believe the reality is that system staying on the air allows some other public safety agencies not on 700/800MHz the ability to listen to & perhaps communicate with LVMPD. For example, Mohave County (Arizona) SO & Lincoln County (NV) Sheriff Dept share borders with Clark County, and those agencies are still on VHF... Also, some officers had bought their own radios (there was a case last year where an off-duty officer used his "personally-owned" radio to call-in a situation he observed while headed home -- I assume he got a VHF radio & didn't shell out the $$$ for a Motorola 700MHz P25/Phase II radio). The VHF Admin repeater still being on the air & simulcast with the 700MHz TG provides access. However, there's a DTMF'er (dual-toning mother fellow) that occasionally interferes with this linked channel by sending out DTMF tones with a VHF radio.
The LVMPD 700MHz system has pretty good coverage, including in Henderson, etc. & even if it didn't, the regular patrol officers don't have VHF. The rural ones probably do, as well as 700MHz.
It's easy enough to check the FCC database to see that LVMPD has operational 700MHz sites all over the county...
As for the Nevada Taxicab Authority police officers here in Clark County, they're dispatched on a Nevada State Radio System TRS talk-group, & it's sometimes interesting to monitor the insanity that cab drivers and/or their customers are involved in.
http://taxi.nv.gov/
Nevada Taxicab Authority doesn't have enough personnel to be basically doing vehicle & pedestrian traffic control at the airport passenger pick-up & drop-off sites. I think most of the uniformed personnel that are enforcing taxi/limo/personal vehicle lineups at McCarran are both Clark County Dept of Aviation employees, as well as Nevada Transportation Agency agents/employees, and they're on SNACC talk groups.
https://www.mccarran.com/DoingBusiness/Transportation/Enforcement.aspx
