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

[Jeffrey Holmes]

The OpenScare....I mean the OpenSky2 system here in our area,  negative.
But the VHF P25 system out West, affirmative.
On Dec 10, 2012 3:20 PM, "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> So, can this system be scanned with the current technology that we in the
> hobby have?
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> 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."
> >
> >
> >(snip)
> >
>