[Scanner] Cumberland Co Pa and Ma/Com

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The following is a letter from the man who runs the Cumberland Co  public
safety system and uses Ma/Com's Open  Sky

Bob.
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>  David,
> 
> Currently, the County is allowing only certain  media
> organizations to
> purchase the "receive only" radios  800-MHz OpenSky
> radios. In fact, two
> date only two newspapers  have purchased them. 
> 
> M/A COM is constantly canvassing the  industry to
> determine if anyone
> wants to produce a scanner but  have been unable to
> find a producer thus
> far but they expect  that to change as more and more
> OpenSky systems are
> deployed  nationwide. As you know the commonwealth is
> completing theirs
> as  well as Cumberland and Lancaster counties. The
> system is deployed  in
> 5-6 other counties/cities around the country and NYS
> has  contracted to
> build their statewide system. So the demand is
>  building but I cannot
> tell when a commercial scanner will be available.  
> 
> Pat Slattery 
>