I knew it! There's a "42" factor in there somewhere!"It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."
I knew it! There's a "42" factor in there somewhere!"It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."
Oh, you poor, uninformed soul. You misread the news article. That's how long it takes to get out of the planning committee. Don't worry. It's a common mistake.
Locally, we had a road project that took 47 years to complete. They finished it about 3 months ago.
Yeah, I agree. Our system was rebanded in 2008. The wonderful Motorola leaky caps got our system controller in 2009. The MSF-5000's were on their last legs.
I ended up replacing the system in 2011.
I should have taken the money and ran.
I remember having the kick off meetings with Motorola, there were 2 or 3 'technical' guys there, and about 5 Motorola sales drones. They were really pushing for us to go P25.
Motorola made a lot of money off this. So did all the lawyers.
I think the Anterix 900MHz thing is "rebanding Part 2", but not as big.
Waiting to see what the next "emergency" is for Motorola to try and save us from.
I had a similar experience with Motorola as well. AS you said, what will be the next emergency that Motorola solutions will deliver us from? I also support a nationwide Trbo based network, as well as P25 Astro, and the new Ion series radios are being pushed heavily. Then there is the Genesis Group, which makes software to interface Trbo to Astro Motorola systems, and we are beta testing the GEnSAC3 for them. It gets old being the test case for many science projects that end up nationwide, as part of an emergency upgrade or change to radio networks for public safety.
I think it could be possible. When you look at the Brandmeister network for Amateur Radio, that seems to work fairly well. The way they set the talkgroups up via an area, statewide, or section of a state seems to work quite well. Now the issue would be that if you had two folks located in the same town using the statewide talkgroup to deal with something in the town, that would get old quick. I've seen folks on the Ohio Statewide and they be across town, so in using the statewide TG, they end up tying up 40 some repeaters in the state.Nationwide TRBO sounds like a pain. I used to have to work with PDV's Connect Plus system (as well as managing one of their competitor's Connect Plus systems in central Texas) on occasion and it was a nightmare if radios weren't around to receive site updates. Capacity Max made some improvements to that as well...but when you get to an extremely large scale with a system that's always expanding P25 just makes a lot more sense thanks to adjacent channels being advertised in the control channel data and the SU's capability to perform spectrum wide scans to search for available channels which may not actually be programmed into the radio.
I still occasionally would be brought old stock radios that had been in storage as spares and were being put into service for a niche event that weren't rebanded.
Reminds me of I35 in Texas...since it was opened to traffic in 1962...construction has not finished due to the ever expanding nature of the cities it passes through.
I recall them talking about this taking a 'few' years to wrap up.
I think it could be possible. When you look at the Brandmeister network for Amateur Radio, that seems to work fairly well. The way they set the talkgroups up via an area, statewide, or section of a state seems to work quite well. Now the issue would be that if you had two folks located in the same town using the statewide talkgroup to deal with something in the town, that would get old quick. I've seen folks on the Ohio Statewide and they be across town, so in using the statewide TG, they end up tying up 40 some repeaters in the state.
It comes down to education to the end user and programming radios in a common sense manner.
Looking from a commercial system admin/technician point of view Brandmiester and DMR MARC are just total clusters that really prove the weak points of wide area conventional and DMR systems when you allow users to overload talk resources.I think it could be possible. When you look at the Brandmeister network for Amateur Radio, that seems to work fairly well. The way they set the talkgroups up via an area, statewide, or section of a state seems to work quite well. Now the issue would be that if you had two folks located in the same town using the statewide talkgroup to deal with something in the town, that would get old quick. I've seen folks on the Ohio Statewide and they be across town, so in using the statewide TG, they end up tying up 40 some repeaters in the state.
It comes down to education to the end user and programming radios in a common sense manner.
I have an iDEN BR and site controller in my basement. Took it to a guy not too farm from me that has a controller and fired it up. Was cool to see a 2008 Nextel flip phone come to life.
It's probably the only way to escape the big garbage can of poor management the FCC allowed the industry to create.
With all of low bands issues, it seems like a safe haven sometimes.
And let us not forget about Anterix with their 900MHz stuff. Sort of like NexTel gobbling up systems and then having the FCC rejigger the rules to build an LTE system that no one really needs.
And Ligado trying their hardest to knock GPS over.
With all of low bands issues, it seems like a safe haven sometimes.
And let us not forget about Anterix with their 900MHz stuff. Sort of like NexTel gobbling up systems and then having the FCC rejigger the rules to build an LTE system that no one really needs.
And Ligado trying their hardest to knock GPS over.
Funny story: When Nextel's road shows were pitching to public safety, I got invited to one in the St. Louis market. The fire chiefs were already enamored with the ability to talk to each other with direct connect as sort of a back-channel intercom, and we were on the way to putting a recorded control station into the fire/EMS dispatch center. This is at a large community center somewhere in St. Louis County and I arrive late, as usual. I open the door, and there is one open chair left at a large square configuration seating. I ask the guy to the right of me, "Anyone sitting here?" He said no, and I sat down. I introduce myself, and he says, "Hi, I'm Morgan." Nice enough guy, but I still had no idea who he was at the time.Anterix is again, Morgan Obrien doing what he does.
Funny story: When Nextel's road shows were pitching to public safety, I got invited to one in the St. Louis market. The fire chiefs were already enamored with the ability to talk to each other with direct connect as sort of a back-channel intercom, and we were on the way to putting a recorded control station into the fire/EMS dispatch center. This is at a large community center somewhere in St. Louis County and I arrive late, as usual. I open the door, and there is one open chair left at a large square configuration seating. I ask the guy to the right of me, "Anyone sitting here?" He said no, and I sat down. I introduce myself, and he says, "Hi, I'm Morgan." Nice enough guy, but I still had no idea who he was at the time.
Kinda reminds me of the time my uncle met a Hare Krishna guy and said, "Nice to meet you, Harry. My name's George."