Douglas County is border line broke also.
Patrol cars were retired around 80,000 mile i believe and the article i read a while back from county manager said that they would have to keep using until about 160,000 miles or totaled out of service.
But the county seems to be able to do what the White House refuses to do or doesnt know how, and make inteligent decisions without puting any new taxes on any goods in the county.
Hint: Ratio of Democrat,Republican,Independant residents of Douglas County, the facts dont lie.
Enough Politics for it is making me ill these days.
They cant fix county roadways,they have a skeleton public works crew and used to have Two-Way radios, but since Public safety taking those freqs and using them for DCSO Regional Channels, i dont hear anymore snowplow traffic or any other PW comms anymore.
They just installed (2014) a new UHF Down-Link (Analog) for voting Receiver located at double springs flat.
Given the multiple Voting sites and the comms still full of noise that i notice during snowstorms,conditions etc that going digital would be worse than the comms they have now
I hate digital and there is something about the way it sounds that isnt normal (Human Voice) and it doesnt take long for the audio to start affecting me.
I wonder if some time down the road it will start to have an effect on some people.
If it sounded like analog,able to hear the slightest sound in background, reproducing the human voice very close to original i would tolerate it..
Digital to me sounds like someone talking into a rag, with their mouth full of something then as soon as the signal degrades a bit it sounds like &^*()#$%^&*(!
This is my opinion not a professional one.