[TrunkCom] cut over strategies for moving users to 800 MHz

[Jeff Kenyon]

I thought they had the full system up but were just waiting to move people 
over.  I've seen police TG ids, but nothing for fire and EMS yet.  Will they 
be making the cut over, and if so when?  I had heard that they didn't want 
to go digital.  Also, what about encryption, and patches to other things, 
and has anyone heard when other systems will go to 9600 in the area? 
Everything else I.E Down River, Western Wayne and Grosse Pointe are still 
3600.  I'm just curious though if this is the case with cut overs with 
larger cities with moving non public safety people to the newer systems? 
Also, I'm curious to know why a lot o f larger cities have historically gone 
to trunked systems for non-public safety and some select police groups such 
as detectives and narc?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike VanderVeer" <mbvv at wideopenwest.com>
To: "Discussion of Monitoring Trunk Radio Systems" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] cut over strategies for moving users to 800 MHz


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>> Good evening everyone.  Since I got my Pro-96 I've been keeping a
>> bit closer tabs to the progress here in Detroit with the cut over to
>> the MPSCS subsystem that is up and partially running with some
>> users.  Right now the current users are the DPW and lighting DEPT,
>> and city offices and building security and the water board.  I'm not
>> sure if the water board is still on low-band with a patch, but it
>> doesn't appear to be patched to anything on the trunked system.  As
>> far as coverage goes it is fair in Grosse Pointe, which is just a
>> few minutes drive from the east side of Detroit.  I'm just curious
>> what has been the strategy for moving other major cities to new
>> systems?  It appears that with Detroit it is the non-public safety
>> people to move over, and then I would imagine that soon they'll be
>> patches appearing to VHF and UHF stuff, and then the cut over, but
>> the other thing is that the move to digital has been delayed in
>> Detroit several times.
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> You're probably on the right track to what they will do.  The water
> department is one of the heavier users of the system.  For the moment they
> are still on a temporary site running at 25 watts.  Hopefully the full 
> system
> should start comming on line sometime soon.
>
> Mike
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