Spitfire8520
I might be completely clueless! =)
Here is a bit of news to wrap up another eventful year of the hobby, and it will likely surprise many. The City & County of Denver has approved a contract (File # 17-1418) with Motorola Solutions to provide a new P25 Phase 2 system citywide, excluding Denver International Airport, for $13,551,014. It looks like Harris has lost their biggest customer in the state. I am guessing that most, including myself, were expecting Denver to go to MARC.
Motorola will be building a 4 site simulcast that will replace the current 7 site simulcast for Denver Public Safety EDACS. It also looks like they are replacing the Mount Morrison site for City Services/MARC. It appears that the preliminary schedule for the system is to be online by late-2018, and transition to the new system in early-2019. Keep in mind that any number of things can happen that will affect the schedule.
Specific details, like mode of operation and encryption, are not known. It is a good idea to wait for these details to be confirmed before deciding on purchasing a scanner for the future.
Hopefully we will be able to keep the discussion of the new system contained to a single thread instead of splintering into several different concurrent threads.
Motorola will be building a 4 site simulcast that will replace the current 7 site simulcast for Denver Public Safety EDACS. It also looks like they are replacing the Mount Morrison site for City Services/MARC. It appears that the preliminary schedule for the system is to be online by late-2018, and transition to the new system in early-2019. Keep in mind that any number of things can happen that will affect the schedule.
Specific details, like mode of operation and encryption, are not known. It is a good idea to wait for these details to be confirmed before deciding on purchasing a scanner for the future.
Hopefully we will be able to keep the discussion of the new system contained to a single thread instead of splintering into several different concurrent threads.