[ScanIndiana] Greenwood PD Scraps Digital Radios

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:50:25 -0700 (PDT)

Remember semaphore? (scouts only) LOL

--- dick elliott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is the Toledo system a Motorola system? Motorola
> is better quality, in my opinion. I base that on
> the years I have been a scanner fan. I bet Toledo
> has many repeaters for their system. That is
> about the only way some systems will work as our
> officials found out. We do not have a single
> skyscraper in our area. The tallest building is
> about 300 ft. What was discovered during the
> testing of the Erickson system was that the
> signals could not get out of a metal building or
> basements. So several more repeaters were added
> to the system. The trunked system is great but it
> is the mechanical / electrical problems that are
> the problem. The technological advancements are
> so far ahead of us that it will take years for
> the bugs to be worked out. In the mean time our
> taxes and fees are going up and up, while good
> paying jobs are going outbound, and soon the tax
> base for funding governments will be dried up and
> cities will be using semaphore for communications
> (lol)  W9FPJ
> 
> =====
> Sincerly, Dick Elliott, the [email protected]
> 
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