Just listening to Pittsburgh's multi-alarm highrise fire from Sunday night. Is there any plan to improve PGH fire's comm plan? Everything goings on one channel. Every status is verbal. Coverage poor. MDC identifiers. A big city using two conventional repeaters seems insane to me.
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They have a Dispatch channel and a fire ground channel. Allegheny County is in the works to upgrade a P25P2 system for the City police so they might go to that system or may repurpose the police freqs that will be left behind. Yes many of Fire fighters use to complain about their comms.
where did everyone get the idea Allegheny County 911 is switching to p25p2 ???i do Remember each department was getting up to so many free radios but was also told that there was some dispatcher spreading a rumor that they will be switching radio band which was confirmed by one of Allegheny County emergency services officials they will not be at least anytime soon. they can't even give out the fire and ems the free radios they got without another and another delay i would be shocked if they go p25p2 when the radio they are getting are costly and some Depatments can't afford them for each fire fighter or Ems staff. now there may be some city of Pittsburgh police channels that are p25 and encrypted and im sure it's only a matter of time when all city of Pittsburgh police are switched to encrypted if that happens.
Allegheny County P25 System Application
This past week, Allegheny County Dept. of Emergency Services applied to the FCC to license a 6-site P25 Phase II system, using T-Band frequencies. Link to the application on FCC ULS is here.
i guess time will tell but after speaking with a friend they said they are being told every month there another delay and another delay but hopefully they get the new radios by the end of the year.Allegheny County P25 System Application
This past week, Allegheny County Dept. of Emergency Services applied to the FCC to license a 6-site P25 Phase II system, using T-Band frequencies. Link to the application on FCC ULS is here.forums.radioreference.com
radio259
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Only the city of PGH is going P25 trunking for now. No immediate plans to move the rest of us to p25. Not yet.
May happen a few years down the road.
The delays in getting the radios is rather comical. We all know the issue.
May happen a few years down the road.
The delays in getting the radios is rather comical. We all know the issue.
most of the police already have the new radios.
I can't get the link to open. Is it really a T-band system? Here's hoping they assess all assigned frequency pairs for co-channel really well before they write the check. And in all seasons, too. Seems strange that they can't find 700mhz spectrum to use. The city is pretty far from any other metro areas.
Yeah Motorola is comical radios are over a year on backorder
LarryVavrek
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That’s what happen when we sold out to China.
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What really happened is several agencies all used COVID relief $$ to buy radios/systems, so the ones who were quick got what was in stock, now everyone else has to wait for the radios to be manufactured before they can get them.
They've had most, if not all of them, since early summer, though. There's apparently some sort of issue with the Quik Call II paging that doesn't function correctly and they have to update every single fire and EMS radio, and it gets delayed over and over again.
radio259
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We have had no issues with any we sell with quick call ll. Works fine. No issues with software or firmware.
They should just be honest. We know the supply chain issues.
Yet another thing I hate about my county’s new P25. I miss the MDC ID’s. At least I can still hear them in the neighboring counties.
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