I found this out during a ARES, RACES meeting, at the Wayne county
emergency management offices. Right after which scads of 800MHz
equipment showed up on the surplus market and the ham swaps.

Digital might not be all that's it's cracked up to be, least not since
sliced bread.

ray wrote:
I found out last month that the FD dumped their 800Mhz radio here in
Lansing Michigan. In favor of the older 460Mhz system. I guess
digital
isn't cracked up to whet it is hyped to. They scrapped the old 800Mhz
equipment.