[TrunkCom] Re: TrunkCom digest, Vol 1 #96 - 5 msgs

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:19:50 -0600

[email protected] wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:53:59 -0500
> From: "Jerry Kacprzycki" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [TrunkCom] Re: DPS Freqs
>
> What is PermNet? Does it have its own website? How does this work? What is =
> COPS?
>
> >>> Joe Hathaway <[email protected]> 02/24/02 12:01AM >>>
> In Midland the various agencies, including DPS, TABC, Sheriff, Police, =
> Constables, COPs, Schools Police, College Police, etc., etc. can communicat=
> e with each other via PermNet, which appears to be a translator setup =
> which "hears" all systems and "talks" on all systems at once, having its =
> own talkgroup on the TRS.
>
> <S N I P P E D>

This is most embarrassing!  On TexasScan, a Yahoo! group, responders were describing how the Texas Dept. of Public Safety communicates with local public safety systems.  Some jar-head who looks a lot like me addressed it to TrunkCom instead of TexasScan!

That said, here's more than I really know about this:  Midland is described as being in the Permian Basin
of West Texas; "Permian" is commonly used in the names of things here.

I am a member of Citizens on Patrol (COPs) which assist the PD.  We carry PCS radios on the City's
TRS when on duty.  One of the talkgroups on the system is PermNet, where I hear members of all
agencies contacting one another.  It took a while to figure out that it is truly a Star Trek translator system
that has a talkgroup, channel, or frequency on every system, a receiver that monitors every system, and
transmitters that rebroadcast every system's PermNet transmissions in the proper format on every other system's PermNet channel.  And it works!

Joe Hathaway
Midland, Texas
Hometown of Presidents