[TrunkCom] neighboring counties to Broward and Dade

[Jeff Kenyon]

That's what I thought.  What about the system's going down or the users
having to put it in back up mode?  I read that around 2000 or so.





On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ken R. wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
>
>
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