Angola, IN - Steuben radio system up and running

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ANGOLA, Ind. — Steuben County’s Open Sky communications system is up and running after a 24-hour delay to work out kinks in phone lines that were causing interference to the system.

Steuben radio system up and running - KPC Media Group: Latest From The Herald Republican: steuben county,

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"The Open Sky system built by Harris Corp. and costing about $3.5 million, came about after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The federal government pushed for new communications systems so emergency agencies could better communicate with one another and across multiple platforms in times of disaster."

I suppose since they (at one point) had a permeant patch between a TGID on OpenSky and C MA 1 on Hoosier SAFE-T, and since they can put the NISPAC frequencies in their radios, and when SAFE-T migrates to P-25 trunking their radios could in theory operate on SAFE-T, then they do have interop. But on the whole, I think the reporter was a little misguided in saying they deployed and OpenSky system to address 9/11 interop concerns.