ComSouth Converting ALL TRS to TRBO

[milf]

ComSouth is in the process of changing ALL their LTR systems over to MotoTRBO systems.

Every single ComSouth Licensed TRS has added the TRBO designators over the past month. They had already narrowbanded over the past year. Now they are upgrading to MotoTRBO. *Special note to Mike... Yo bud, all that hard work getting them all lined up,.. and now I gots to change it all just a year or so later.* LOL the joys of administration.

[KE5TLF]

Dude just because a emission designator is added to a license doesn't mean that emission is required to be or is actually active.

Just because a new emission designator is added to a license doesn't mean other emission types are automatically rendered inactive.

Blindly entering things into the DB that have no other basis than that a FCC license exists is the exact opposite of what RRDB is for.

The RR DB is for CONFIRMED DATA. Not for the purposes of mirroring FCC data/licenses.

[Avery93]

Originally Posted by KE5TLF

Dude just because a emission designator is added to a license doesn't mean that emission is required to be or is actually active.

Exactly. Just in my surrounding counties, I can think of many instances in which an agency added an emission designator several years before actually converting to that modulation.

Also, you mixed up the system that Lauderdale SO uses. They are on the UHF ComSouth system, not VHF. In addition, as of 2/2012, Meridian had not yet decided whether to stay on their own system, or join ComSouth (see here). I can't find anything more recent in their minutes, so they very well could have stayed on their conventional system.

According to this article, most county public safety agencies will eventually be on the same system (also note the UHF antenna on the XPR).

[KE5TLF]

Exactly what happens when you run around like a bull in a china shop copying data from one DB(FCC) into another DB(RR) which this site's policy is all about NOT doing...

Already said it on the Lauderdale thread, but I guess it needs to be said here AGAIN. All the private business systems around me (Telecom, Hurricane, and Team One) run BOTH LTR and TRBO/IDAS/whatever side by side. While it stands to reason that some day they'll drop LTR altogether, it doesn't stand to reason that they'll get in a big hurry to do it. Digital radio is a more "advanced service" from a marketing standpoint, and I've little doubt that they market it as such and therefore charge more for it than they do simple analog LTR service.

Something akin to the choices of a plain old phone, or a smart phone in the cell phone industry.