Pete Hopping writes in a message to Dennis Wren
 PH> The same thing happened here in Annapolis, MD. The county got 
 PH> the system first and put all their radios on it, including 
 PH> the city FD. Later, the city PD went onto the system. In a 
 PH> way, it's good, as it allows all the emergency services to 
 PH> communicate with each other when necessary.
And some places are putting in cross-band repeaters for this same purpose.  
This is a good deal for us scanner listeners!
 
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