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The county has decided that all agencies within the county will switch over to the 450 split by the end of 2007. It's not debatable we will be on it or they have refused to dispatch, which in my opinion is a load of bull, well that and they haven't even announced a frequency list yet. OK enough ranting the reason I'm posting is I need to find a good portable in the 450-512 split. I'm thinking either MT1000 or an HT600, mainly due to the fact that that's what fits in the convertacom. I'm only gonna need 16 channels max, could probably get away with 8, but I'm gonna go with the 16 to be safe. Any opinions on which radio would be best? I have a P200 and I really like it, but I've had no luck finding a P200 in the UHF split, honestly I don't know if they even make a P200 in the UHF split.

The MT1000 and HT600 do not come in 450-512.

Choose from the below bandsplits:
UHF
403-433MHz
438-470MHz
470-500MHz
488-520MHz

I have an HT600 on 500MHz

They did come in T-band.

Not too sure of the MT's

So which do you want? A highband portable or a UHF portable?

Highband typically refers to VHF (136-174)...

I think you meant to say you want a good UHF portable...

You might want to wait till you get the actual frequencies. If these are recent allocation they might be narrowband which the radios you mention
will not cover.

when you get into those older radios it's realistic to think that you can at least get a newer old radio like an mt1000 for around the same price. but as mentioned earlier, definately wait until the frequency is in place and working because your two big issues are going to be the exact bandsplit and if it's narrow band you will probablly have to step up to an ht1000

Well the new frequencies will be in the 453-460 range based on the info I know that they are still awaiting information on interference from another county. Also the inputs and outputs are in 5MHz steps so is that considered a narrowband step? PD has been on this system since 1992 so it's not a new system, it's a conventional system and we have a PD radio in the FD that is crystal controlled if that helps. I don't know a lot about these UHF systems so any help or advice is always appreciated.

if you're waiting for them to give you a frequency it's going to be narrow, nothing new now is going to be wide, and more than likely it's going to be a repeater. the 5mhz separation is going to be between transmit and recieve, that's standard.