[Scan-DC] RE: Charles County Sheriff's Dept

[al]

  Yeah I was afraid of that.After reading what Spencer wrote about a "cut 
over date".

  Oh well maybe the new system will take a long time to work out the bugs & 
those digital scanners will come down in price.

I'm probably dreaming again.

  Al

>Sorry, Al.  You're dreaming.  Montgomery County simulcast its police 
>channels for only a couple of months after it went trunked.  The county 
>continues to simulcast two of its fire-rescue dispatch channels, but only 
>because 1) the tone-paging for volunteers is on VHF and 2) PG County is 
>not on the trunked system.
>
>Ed
>----- Original Message ----- From: "al" <ald61650 at comcast.net>
>To: "Spencer Stevenson" <spencerstevenson at msn.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 6:51 PM
>Subject: [Scan-DC] RE: Charles County Sheriff's Dept
>
>
>>  I thought I read somewhere on one of the I'Net radio 
>> sites,RadioReference,StrongSignals,etc that when a non-trunked system 
>> switched over to a Trunk system that the entity was required to 
>> simulcast for something like five years.Did I dream this,hoping to put 
>> off having to buy a digital scanner, or is there some kind of time issue 
>> between non-Trunk/Trunk simulcast?
>>
>>  Al
>>
>>
>>>   They  have  been  simulcasting  for  a  couple  weeks  now on fire and
>>>   police.  I have some of the talkgroups already.
>>>
>>>   They have a fair amount of portables already in service for the police
>>>   and  fire.   Yesterday  I  heard  a deputy saying that he had a mobile
>>>   unit.   Have  not  heard  anything  else on the cut over date yet.  It
>>>   sounds like they are still working alot of bugs out.
>>>
>>>   Spencer, LaPlata, MD.
>>>
>>>   >  They came on the radio around 15 minutes ago saying ch
>>>   >2,155.610,was going to be out of service & for all D 1/2 to use ch
>>>   >1,155.535.
>>>   >
>>>   >There's some kind of testing going on now on ch 2.I guess it's
>>>   >related to the 800 trunking deal.
>>>   >
>>>   >  --
>>>   >al dudley ....southern md , usa
>>>   >    ald61650 at comcast.net
>>>   >