[TrunkCom] York County, PA information

[Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps]

I thank you for your e-mails.  I trust this revision will help.  I should
have proofread my original post.


The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for reasons that elude rationale, signed a
contract with M/A Com before the system had ever been tested statewide. The
average taxpayers of the Commonwealth probably do not realize that the
expenses for this system exceed the original contract by millions. (It is
almost impossible to accurately calculate.) Also, the vendor who was
contracted to install towers went bankrupt.  According to bidding
regulations, the Commonwealth is required to verify that any vendor is
financially stable.  There are other factors as well.  Whoever "dropped the
ball" on that bid is probably selling hot dogs or soft pretzels in
Philadelphia.  A representative from TYCO told me that the PSP is using
their MDT system and some repeaters, etc. for their current VHF system. The
VHF system works fine and many of the initial concerns could have been
resolved with some troop/channel reassignments. For those of you not
familiar with Pennsylvania, we do not have a relatively flat terrain like,
for example, Delaware.  We have mountains, valleys, metropolitan areas (of
course) and some rural areas that are so far removed from the mainstream
that you need a compass or GPS to locate.  Initially, the budget included
all the radio and dispatching centers that were to be constructed.  Later
the two components were assigned different budget codes to disguise the
actual dollar overage. In the interim, since the original contract signing,
the radios became outdated and had to be replaced.  I have been told that
PENNDOT is using the 800MHz system.  I know there were numerous complaints,
but I don't believe they reverted back to the VHF system. Even though the
current Governor is frustrated, I think you reach a point beyond which it is
too late to "fold".


-----Original Message-----
From: trunkcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:trunkcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 6:01 PM
To: Discussion of Monitoring Trunk Radio Systems
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] York County, PA information

That is OpenSky, and from what I have heard as you have it is junk, and if
you read my earlier posts here to the list Oakland County, Michigan has some
OpenSky stuff on the air, but no moves to the new system and M/Acomm keeps
pushing the change over date back and back.





On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, JAMES HAUGH wrote:

> I have no idea I was told that penn dot and psp went to a 800 trunked
system but that is all I know
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