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Originally Posted by KCoax
The radio traffic was a car check at Randolph State Park. It was the only traffic I seen from that TGID or anywhere near there for a couple days. Seemed kinda odd. Perhaps, some tech dropped a screw driver in the switch box or something. Anyway, always nice to hear traffic from the other side of the state.
John
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It could have been one of their deputies was in the Kansas City area for business (prisoner transport- a run to OMB police supply, court, etc) and their radio was "dragging" the signal with him, like Mancow suggested. That is a prime reason to make sure and program ALL the talkgroups you would like to hear on the system into your scanner- regardless of where they usually operate. It would not surprise me to hear radio traffic from the Garden City area sporadically in KC or Topeka!
This is a neat feature- and one that KDOT is watching very closely. Some of their techs are afraid that a "perfect storm" could happen, where users across the state could saturate a single site and cause the system to crash (I hope it is more robust than that!). The "everyday example" they gave was a law enforcement or firefighter funeral where agencies come to a town from across the state- leaving their radios on and dragging their radio traffic along behind them. Like I said, I think that the system is more robust than that- and the system would start giving busy signals before it ever got to the point of overwhelming the controller - if not, then the state bought the wrong system as the same scenario will likely occur anytime we have a moderate to large disaster.
They point to the Platte Canyon High School incident in Bailey, Colorado a few years ago. Colorado has a sister system ours in place. Their technicians had to go in and deaffiliate radio sites as users all over the state turned their radios to the incident channels out of curiosity.
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