I attended a fire equipment show a couple of days ago, being the only radio dealer there. I was amazed at how many people just do not understand when narrow banding actual is and isn’t! This was all angles: the day-to-day field users up to the people who are actually spending the money on their radio equipment, and everyone in between!
Out of 10 people taking about it, there were at least 8 that had different ideas about what narrow banding is all about. Some thought it means having to go to new digital systems.
Some thought they HAVE to change all of their present frequencies and/or bands. One of the lead people thought that they absolutely could no longer use the VHF Low band that they used up until a year or two ago.
Some reported that their new narrow band VHF High frequencies have poor voice quality because of the narrow band frequencies themselves.
Many voiced concerns that a neighboring county is in the process of setting up all emergency services on a new 800Mhz trunked system.
NONE of them had ever heard of (let alone ever saw) the radio interoperability systems that are on the market, or knew such technology exists.
Just thought I’d throw this out here for discussion! Is anyone else seeing this??
Out of 10 people taking about it, there were at least 8 that had different ideas about what narrow banding is all about. Some thought it means having to go to new digital systems.
Some thought they HAVE to change all of their present frequencies and/or bands. One of the lead people thought that they absolutely could no longer use the VHF Low band that they used up until a year or two ago.
Some reported that their new narrow band VHF High frequencies have poor voice quality because of the narrow band frequencies themselves.
Many voiced concerns that a neighboring county is in the process of setting up all emergency services on a new 800Mhz trunked system.
NONE of them had ever heard of (let alone ever saw) the radio interoperability systems that are on the market, or knew such technology exists.
Just thought I’d throw this out here for discussion! Is anyone else seeing this??