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This may be old news; but looks like the murmurings that Amelia County is upgrading their system are true...
May 2021 "Radio System Assessment Report": https://www.ameliacova.com/DocumentCenter/View/345/CIP-2024
December 2021 "P25 700MHz Radio System RFP": https://mvendor.cgieva.com/Vendor/p...Hz+Radio+System.pdf&connect=jdbc/VSSINFO_PROD
November 2022 Amelia Monitor Article: Emergency management director tells of new radio system at ALF event - The Amelia Bulletin Monitor
It also appears some sort of update on the proposed radio system was set to be discussed during the November 2022 board of supervisors meeting, but I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to find the actual minutes for this specific meeting instead of the agenda only...
https://www.ameliacova.com/DocumentCenter/View/750/November-BoS-Agendapdf
If anyone's able to find if/who's been selected during the RFP process (if it's not still ongoing) - I've been unable to turn anything up thus far. Given the circumstances, I'm betting L3Harris takes the cake, I'd be shocked if anyone else won the bid. Harris' tri-bands would be ideal for Amelia, but I don't foresee them forking out that kind of money - especially given the fact that most mutual aid scenarios are outside agencies responding into Amelia, but I guess we'll see.
May 2021 "Radio System Assessment Report": https://www.ameliacova.com/DocumentCenter/View/345/CIP-2024
December 2021 "P25 700MHz Radio System RFP": https://mvendor.cgieva.com/Vendor/p...Hz+Radio+System.pdf&connect=jdbc/VSSINFO_PROD
November 2022 Amelia Monitor Article: Emergency management director tells of new radio system at ALF event - The Amelia Bulletin Monitor
It also appears some sort of update on the proposed radio system was set to be discussed during the November 2022 board of supervisors meeting, but I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to find the actual minutes for this specific meeting instead of the agenda only...
https://www.ameliacova.com/DocumentCenter/View/750/November-BoS-Agendapdf
If anyone's able to find if/who's been selected during the RFP process (if it's not still ongoing) - I've been unable to turn anything up thus far. Given the circumstances, I'm betting L3Harris takes the cake, I'd be shocked if anyone else won the bid. Harris' tri-bands would be ideal for Amelia, but I don't foresee them forking out that kind of money - especially given the fact that most mutual aid scenarios are outside agencies responding into Amelia, but I guess we'll see.