Well, I used to work in CoR's radio shop. But left back in 2018. At that time there was talk about taking all of the non-public safety (Solid Waste, Traffic Signs & Signals, Inspections (not that they used their channels much at all, preferring cell phones), Municipal Parking. ) and moving them to a 'cellular push-to-talk' system.
And I saw the handwriting on the wall. Which is why I left - did not see an exciting future there.
Since then, I guess all the UHF channels were taken down and a PTT vendor put in place, administered by the City IT shop. Because they are communications devices with IP addresses, and IT should administer such IP devices, right? I don't know the vendor, the system or anything else.
FWIW, a little bird told me recently that as of July 1, the Radio Shop has been moved underneath the Police Dept. As PD felt they would get better response to their radio troubleshooting issues than if the shop was still underneath the RWECC.
Perhaps someone was overheard saying 'Raleigh PD is not my problem' Or similarly damning words.
And in ages and ages past, Radio Shop had been underneath the PD, tho I can't give you definitive timeframes.
So yeah, all 3 Solid Waste channels, I think 2 Public Utilities Channels, 2 CAT Bus channels - tho they had gone on Wake County System a few years before, - Parking Enforcement , Signs & Signals, etc. all gone.
In the FWIW dept, all those depts were consolidated onto UHF when RPD went ionto Wake's system, and the whole system (those UHF Channels) was programmed into all radios for the sake of interoperability. Which TBH, didn't happen much. But it could have.
And all Raleigh channels, VHF that remained (RFD HQs) and UHF were completed with narrowbanding about 6 months before the Jan. 1 2013 FCC deadline. Take that all you bigger cities that couldn't manage to do that and asked for extensions.
