[TrunkCom] Miami-Dade EDACS system using digital or analogue

[Jeff Kenyon]

so then all the TGs marked fire then are just patches right?  I had heard
something about them  having to put the system in back up mode all the
time when it first came on in the late 90's?  What will the fire
department be doing to the UHF upgrade?





On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Ken R. wrote:

> I really don't know how well the system works because I'm really
> too far away to monitor it.  I do know that when the system first
> came on line, all county services were supposed to move to it.
> Fire/rescue switched over to it for about a week, and then
> abandoned it and went back to their old 453 MHz conventional
> channels due to, they said,  problems such as coverage inside
> buildings, problems when the radios got wet, channel access
> problems, etc.  They are still using the old 453 MHz channels,
> and will be upgrading that system in the future.  They refuse to
> move to the 800 MHz system.
>
> Ken
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <at649 at tcnet.org>
> To: "Discussion of Monitoring Trunk Radio Systems"
> <trunkcom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] Miami-Dade EDACS system using digital or
> analogue
>
>
> > How well does the system work?  I had heard some time ago there
> > were major
> > problems.  The unit profiled I would expect to encrypt.
>
>
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