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Redding police chief says it won’t help here unlesstown buys new 800 frequency radios by SUSAN WOLF Redding Pilot Sept 17, 2007 A new cross band radio system aimed at allowing first responders across the state to communicate in emergency situations won’t help Redding any time soon. Police Chief Douglas Fuchs explained the cross band radio system operates on an 800 MHz frequency. It is a radio system that has been set aside for law enforcement, state and local. “It is an open channel statewide that can be accessed anytime, but one needs an 800 radio to access it,” said Chief Fuchs. Redding operates in the 150s, he said, adding that “virtually every town around us operates on either a 100 or a 400 frequency spectrum. Radios are spectrum specific.”...