[Scan-DC] For those wondering what happened to Washington Gas........

[Doug Kitchener]

So, can this system be scanned with the current technology that we in the hobby have?

Thx!

DK


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> From: Jeffrey Holmes <jeffreyholmes74 at gmail.com>
>To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net 
>Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 2:21 PM
>Subject: [Scan-DC] For those wondering what happened to Washington Gas........
> 
>http://urgentcomm.com/utility/harris-announces-washington-gas-deployment?NL=UC-03&Issue=UC-03_20121206_UC-03_97&YM_RID=jwilliamh@aol.com&YM_MID=1356634&sfvc4enews=42
>Harris announces Washington Gas deployment
>Dec. 6, 2012 Donny Jackson
><http://urgentcomm.com/author/donny-jackson> | Urgent
>Communications
>
>Washington Gas has upgraded its communications to a hybrid
>OpenSky2/P25<http://urgentcomm.com/technology/land-mobile-radio/p25?intlink=autlink>system
>from
>Harris <http://urgentcomm.com/companies/harris?intlink=autlink> to serve
>utility personnel in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West
>Virginia areas, according to a recent announcement.
>
>Harris deployed the system more than year ago to replace the "aging"
>infrastructure that Washington Gas had been using — a simulcast system in
>the Washington, D.C., area and conventional infrastructure in West
>Virginia, according to Chris Sarantos, area sales manager for Harris.
>Washington Gas upgraded to a 22-site OpenSky2 network in the Washington,
>D.C., area and a 4-site VHF trunked P25 network in its Virginia and West
>Virginia territory, he said.
>
>"The reason we went with OpenSky was simply because of the capacity that is
>allowed by the protocol," Sarantos said during an interview with Urgent
>Communications. "They went from a wideband, 25 kHz system to a narrowband,
>12.5 kHz system without the need for a control channel. So, we more than
>doubled their capacity."
>
>
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