[Scan-DC] pure speculation

[Kevin Loch]

ka3jjz at netscape.com wrote:

>  Looking over the 2001 Inaug issue on the CHM website, you can't help but wonder at the number of agencies and organizations that are going to be involved now; but a question popped up while I watched WJLA last nite talking about bringing in cops from other jurisdictions; if they all end up using their own 'home' frequency (for lack of a better word), interop goes right out the window. Will the RINS and/or ICALL frequencies get pressed into service?  It would seem a natural, at least for those jurisdictions (such as Montgomery county) that are already on 800.
>  Just food for thought.
>  73s Mike
>  
>

Apparently some of the cog/rins freqs are currently linked to the 
coordination talkgroups on
Fairfax County's system.  They have been linking pmars and sirs to their 
system for
a long time though the audio on those is barely inteligible.  I've 
always joked
that the pmars/sirs links were done with "Kenwoods and clip leads". 
That's probably not
far from the truth judging by the audio.

The most obvious interop problem is MPD on 460 but honestly, would it 
make any difference
if their radios could talk to everyone else? 

Hopefully there will be a coordination command post somewhere downtown 
that will bridge the gap between those that can't talk
directly.  There is also the possibility of loaning out radios from one 
system to supervisors/special teams from other
jurisdictions.  I think that is what happened in 2001.