St Mary's New System News

[Patech]

St Mary's County signs a 34 million contract with Harris.

SoMdNews.com: County agrees to 911 communications upgrade

[groftcc]

No surprise the county went with Harris. It's a bit ironic that the current Harris system never worked as advertised, as stated in the article, but the telecommunications geniuses here went right back for more. Hopefully the taxpayers will get what we paid for this time around.

I would love to see the other manufactures submissions to the original RFP.

Why the county didn't go P25 originally is beyond me. It would have opened up competition, extended the useful life of the system, enhanced interop with surrounding counties and saved money. Instead we bought a multi million dollar, proprietary system that for all intent and purpose is obsolete and unserviceable not 10 years after commissioning.

The Good Old Boy SMIB network at it's finest!!!!

[TAMR213]

Any word on if this system will stay "in the clear", or if they will begin using ProVoice or something of the sort? Sadly enough my home, Middlesex County NJ uses a ProVoice system and more and more towns are starting to switch over to the "dark side". Spend a week every year (actually within the next few days) down at Point Lookout and enjoy listening to this TRS. Thanks for any info.

[brian86]

Here is the link to the counties request for the new radio system. It is over 200 pages long and goes over what issues they have now and what they want in the new system.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...H9fh-zW_vdjdjA

[troymail]

Funny reading articles written by people who don't really understand the technologies... or it was a lack of understanding on the part of the person in being interviewed.... (or they can blame spell checker).

I suspect if the system were live today, the PSR800 should be able to handle it (I think).

SoMdNews.com: Emergency scanners to go quiet in 2014