[TrunkCom] Trunk-tracking Help

[JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON]

Does anyone know if California will be or has made  any plans to get a state
wide trunked system for all public safety and state agencies then?  I mean
I can  see the logic behind a system in a prison that is type I like you
said, but it would seem like the old system that  the CHP is using has long
been past its usefulness.





On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Wayne M H wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:45:35 -0500 (EST), JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON
> <at649@tcnet.org> wrote:
> 
> >Well, that could be as well, but we are talking about a prison, and with
> >one of the newer consols you can control things other then the radio
> >system.  Say, in a prison control center from the consol you could open
> >and lock  doors and turn lights on and off, and several other
> >things.  Also, with a consol you can bring up things like patches to
> >conventional freqs that you may not want programmed into the individual
> >radios, and that could be in case they get stolen or something like
> >that. Then of course you have the admin terminal where you could turn
> >radios off and on, but you would want to limit that or its various
> >permissions and access to only a few people throughout the prison.
> 
> I'm quite aware of that but they have implemented these small Type I
> systems all throughout the State. You have to understand the State, if
> they are going to go to a full console that controls everything, why
> not go for Type II, or whatever else. These are all small, cost
> effective systems. The State is only concerned with saving money.
> 
> Wayne
>