[TrunkCom] neighboring counties to Broward and Dade

[Ken R.]

I don't recall anything specifically about that.

Ken


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <at649 at tcnet.org>
To: "Discussion of Monitoring Trunk Radio Systems" 
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] neighboring counties to Broward and Dade


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