They don't cost that much. The $430M covered a lot more than just the portable and mobile radios themselves. And no, "a simple FRS/GMRS radio with scrambler c

They don't cost that much. The $430M covered a lot more than just the portable and mobile radios themselves. And no, "a simple FRS/GMRS radio with scrambler chip" would not have sufficed. Public safety radio systems, even on a local level, to say nothing of a national agency's requirements, are a heck of a lot more complicated than most people realize, since there's a lot that most people, including most of their employees never see.