[TrunkCom] PA Statewide System.

[JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON]

Well, I think that this can be done, but there are considerations as to
what you would want out of a system.  Connecticut is a smaller state, but
they have mountains and things also to consider as well, and they are
putting up a digital TRS for  the whole state as well.  Is  PA on Low-band
highband?  If low band they have skip to be worried about  I know that
when Motorola was planning on building this system it was going to be for
mobile and portable coverage across the state on 800 MHz, and possibly
other bands and additional 800 MHz frequencies.





On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 Rocky178@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/4/2002 10:17:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> aphelps@enter.net writes:
> 
> 
> > >Who knows.  They were supposed to have started with this four years
> > >ago.  This is beginning to worry me, because Oakland County, Mi will be
> > >getting the same Open Sky system for county wide, and who knows how long
> > >it will take to errect.  Lots of people around Oakland County are really
> > >worried about the new system for Oakland county that isn't APCO-25
> > >complient.xycy
> > >They missed at least three deadline dates.  Testing in the SE was to begin
> > by 4/1.  That day came and went.  The system is way over budget and plagued
> > with problems.  Also, M/A Com has never been tested for large scale use, 
> > e.g.
> > the Commonwealth. 
> > 
> 
> I know that their current VHF duplex system works just fine. I think they 
> should just stick with VHF and use repeaters instead of changing to an 800 
> MHZ trunked system. They have a lot of terrain to cover so maybe there are 
> some worries about it?
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
>