I remember 15 years ago when Fargo was on UHF, Cass Co was vhf and the city of grand forks was on an 800 analog trunk system and Grand Forks county fire was on uhf, with one department on 800, Grand Forks County SO was on vhf, 800 for car to car. Then the state went to digital vhf and mandated everyone switch so they all switched from the mess they had to digital vhf, and now 10 years later or so, they are going to have to all switch to another system. I think considering where everyone is at in their radio ssytems in ND it would have been more cost effective to go with vhf trunked. They probably wouldn't have to acquire any new tower sites than what they have now. It will be a very costly transition with having to acquire new radios, new dispatch consoles, new hardware. Tower space, tower land acquisitions because 800 doesn't travel as far as vhf. $$$$$$