[TrunkCom] Indiana Safe-T and Ohio MARCS updates

[Mark Meece]

Tom Swisher wrote:

> JERRY NONE wrote:
>
>> When is the link between SAFE-T and MARCS suposed to
>> happen or did it already?
>>
>> I thought that they were supposed to try to link
>> SAFE-T, MARCS, Michigan and kentuckey together.
>
>
> I've answered these questions a couple of times before, but here goes 
> again (hopefully for the last time)....
>
> Yes, intersystem links are being worked on. Kentucky State Police 
> posts are getting desktop radios as there really isn't a convenient, 
> efficient way to link the conventional P25 KSP system together with 
> MARCS.



Agencies in Ohio and Kentucky have rarely ever had the need to 
communicate with each other via two-way radio.
The Ohio River is a very effective border, so it is very rare for a 
pursuit to cross a bridge.
I can think of only one time and that involved Cincinnati Police and 
Covington, KY Police. No state agencies where involved.
As a matter of fact the OSP rarely travel into the Cincinnati 
metropolitan area and the same goes for
the Kentucky State Police. They rarely patrol the metro areas of 
Northern Kentucky. If communications are needed
it is more likely to involve the systems of the metropolitan departments 
and not the state area systems.
As one heads up river the bridges are few and far between, so again it 
would unlikely to hear much
two way traffic between the states.

So rare are the communications between Ohio and Kentucky, I cannot see 
them ever linking up unless
Homeland Security makes a demand of it.

Of course, the land borders are a completely different story. In the 
case of Indiana it has always used
155.370 Point to Point or Intercity (whichever term they prefer to use) 
to talk to Ohio agencies.
SAFE-T is still quite a ways off from being completed, so currently the 
only interoperability 155.3700.


Mark