[TrunkCom] neighboring counties to Broward and Dade

[Ken R.]

When Dade County first began using the EDACS system a few years 
ago, the fire/rescue department claimed to have problems with the 
system, like poor coverage, not being able to get through in 
emergencies, water causing radios to fail, etc.  After being on 
the trunked system for only a few days, the fire/rescue 
department abandoned it and went back to their 453 MHz band UHF 
conventional system. In fact they are in the process now of 
upgrading their existing system with new equipment and 
re-arranging channels, but it will be 453 MHz band conventional, 
not trunked.  Dade County police and local government still are 
using the trunked EDACS system.

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <at649 at tcnet.org>
To: "Discussion of Monitoring Trunk Radio Systems" 
<trunkcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] neighboring counties to Broward and Dade


> Thanks Ken, wasn't Dade County having trouble with the EDACS 
> systems for a
> long time?  I remember reading some place they always were 
> putting the
> systems in backup mode.
>
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>
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> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Ken R. wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Dade and Broward Counties boarder each other, of course.  To 
>> the
>> north of Broward County is Palm Beach County.  They have a 
>> large
>> Motorola Smart Zone trunking system.  Mostly analog, but Boca
>> Raton PD and FD are digital, as are Delray Beach and Boynton
>> Beach.  Broward County uses Motorola Smart Zone trunking, 
>> mostly
>> analog except for Hollywood PD and FD which is digital.  Dade
>> County uses EDACS analog for the County, but the City of Miami
>> uses Motorola analog trunked, and Miami Beach uses a Motorola
>> system which I believe is digital.  I doubt that you would be
>> able to monitor to the north of Palm Beach County, or to the
>> south of Dade County.  See the database section of the Radio
>> Reference website, the information there for these areas is
>> pretty accurate.
>>
>> Ken
>>