[TrunkCom] Philadelphia

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:36:05 -0500 (EST)

Hi, this is probably Nextel that they are having problems with?  As far
 are services other then Nextel are concerned they can be filtered out.  Our
trunked system in Grosse Pointe is located on the same tower as a lot of
cell providers, and it works great.  This is because they are  filtering
out the various cell transmitters.  We must remember also that these
systems are really expensive, and to date even though it is coming there
is  nothing available to monitor the digital systems and lots of people need
to really be  talked into spending the money to get such a system.  In our
case and in the cases of many other people who opt to go to a trunked
system it is because the old equipment is old, and it is hard to find
parts, and intermod from other systems.

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Michael Wallach wrote:

> Shawn,
> 
> Could you elaborate on what happened in Gainesville?
> 
> As far as the expense of changing the system at this point, I 
> agree.  However, I assume you do not belive they have a prayer of getting 
> Motorola to pay for it.  While Philadelphia's claim that Motorola assured 
> them of privacy from monitors seems ridiculous, if they make a big enough 
> stink who knows ... stranger things have happened.  But let's remember that 
> as far as I know, this whole situation has not been confirmed.  To the 
> list: does anyone have confirming information?
> 
> On a related note, I did see a news article about problems of interference 
> with 800MHz systems from cell towers.  Philadelphia was mentioned in the 
> article as anticipating such problems, and are concerned.  At least one PD 
> just West of Philly was quoted as having experienced communication failures 
> because of cell tower interference.
> 
> Michael
> 
> At 1/14/2002  17:45, you wrote:
> >They don't want a lot of media involvement.  Everytime there's a murder the
> >media is right there.  Plus people use them for committing crimes and such.
> >This is another Gainesville Flordia issue.  Nothing will come of it because
> >it'll be too expensive to do.  E.g. Connecticut State Police.
> >
> >
> >shawn
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