Calloway County Sheriff's Office to receive new radio system

[kytnradios]

The Calloway County Sheriff's office has received a Kentucky Office of Homeland Security grant to implement a new radio system. The new radios will apparently use VHF instead of UHF currently used by the department. The grant was for around $19,000, and the new system should be operational by Spring of 2018. I haven't searched around to see if this will be a P25 system, or if licenses have yet been issued.

 

[buddrousa]

If Jackson Purchase is selling the system it may be a DMR system just a thought. $19,000.00 will not buy many P25 radios.

 

[kib669]

KY Homeland Security will not let you spend their funds on DMR. Has to be analog or P25.

If Jackson Purchase is selling the system it may be a DMR system just a thought. $19,000.00 will not buy many P25 radios.

 

[buddrousa]

Good to know but still at $1,000.00 and up for Motorola P25 Conventional Portables and $1,5000.00 and up for Motorola Mobiles at 2 year old Government Contract Pricing does not look to go very far. Not sure how they are going to do this unless they are doing a matching grant.

 

[CCEMS703]

The system will be analog