[Scan-DC] Despite kinks, digital radio supported investigation

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:34:21 -0500 "Alan Henney" <[email protected]>
writes:
> 
> http://gcn.com/21_32/news/20411-1.html
> 
> 
> Police agencies start on long road toward shared radio systems
> 11/04/02
> By William Jackson,
> GCN Staff

....
> Most cooperative communications systems grow out of some sort of
> catastrophe. Before the Washington-area sniper shootings last month, 
> the
> area's defining catastrophe was the 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 
> 90 into
> the Potomac River, in which 74 people died.
> 
> Afterward, the Virginia counties of Fairfax and Arlington and the 
> city of
> Alexandria linked up on an 800-MHz Motorola trunked digital system 
> along
> with the District of Columbia fire department and the Metropolitan
> Washington Airports Authority. Authorized users can roam and 
> communicate
> with each other much as they can on a cellular telephone system.
....
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They can? Tell me more about this digital TRS.