Around $500,000 per tower site and $2,000 for a low end subscriber unit. That's a low ball cost. Way too expensive when you don't have any KSICS sites in your county, like Franklin and Osage. Osage switched to MotoTRBO last summer, replaced all the county subscriber units and all infrastructure for around $70,000, and that was for 4 sites on IPSC. Cities were of course on their own to replace their subscriber units.
Thanks for the information firefive76.
I'd moved to Kansas 2 years ago and knew the KSCIS system was in place for cites and county to join the system, however did not know how much of cost there was for them to do so.
Living in Rice County, it is well known their system is having some coverage problem after the narrow band mandate when in to place as well as some of their current system is at its EOL cycle and the normal problems that go along with that.
I know the County has or was looking in it, and there has been a lot talk of moving to the KSICS system and leaving their VHF conventional system. However, after the bids were received < cost of the move not made public > to switch to the KSCIS system, there were reconsidering that and started looking at replacing the part of the VHF conventional system and staying on it. Which is not cheap either!
Not really knowing how much, or how they charged for the cost of using the KSCIS towers, weather it one time, yearly, monthly, or per unit cost, plus when you add leasing of talk groups, subscriber unit usage etc. the cost of the radios, I better understand it now, and I can see where that could rack up fast, and why they are reconsidering the move.
Again thanks for the information, Sorry if I changed the subject of the thread, I was just curious as to what some the “Real “costs that were involved with using KSCIS system vs upgrading their current ones.
