People I've talked to over the years say the digital on the current County radio system is too unreliable... some of it is in the voice encoding of the current radios -- doesn't sampe/transmit enough the voice - and it picks up way too much background noise. Even worse, the signal is unreliable because there really aren't enough towers in the county. In digital (vs analog), the signal either goes out or it doesn't. In analog, it may be weak and scatchy but at least you can hear something. They've tried to overcome this for years but adding "mobile repeaters" in a unit (a fire engine typically) from every station. That never took hold either. However, they've been installing new digital "mobile repeaters" in place of the old units over the last several months... maybe with that they're trying to overcome the problems blocking acceptance. I don't see that happening -- particularly now that the new County Exec is saying she's ready to buy a new radio system....
