*****UPDATE*****
*****UPDATE*****
The EMA Communications Director of my county went to a conference today to discuss more about this grant. I can now say that this grant, bond, whatever you want to call it has and will pay for radio interoperability in MSHP troop A. I have not heard yet if they will do this for every troop in Missouri. They did mention though that with this money will be $100 Million for the new trunked system for MSHP which they have now said will either be 700 or 800mhz. This also will put various amateur equipment vhf,uhf,hf in hospitals, fire departments, etc. And for the wide area interoperability system (WIAS). This will be one black box with a few uhf, vhf, 800,700mhz radios inside it. What this will do is connect repeaters via IP interconnect. So lets say my county is in a pursuit and they are about to leave into another county. The dispatch centers for each county would connect their respective repeaters so virtually and physically nobody will have to change a channel or worry about getting everybody on mutual aid or sheriff net it will all be done with a few clicks of a mouse by one or two people. Now since they are putting 800mhz in these "black boxes" as they call them, I sure hope they would find a way to connect TRS's to them also, now that my friends would be true interop unless another child molester celebrity dies and the internet becomes a major cluster fudge. They did say that they eventually want to add hams into the equation but that is pretty far down the road. I hope that can clue everyone in to whats happening and I do agree the MSHP lo band all they would need to do is upgrade it because in the meeting/conference they were talking about a ONE fixed location for the system in each county which you and I both know wont work.
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