Had a co-worker bring in his SDS200 - sounds much better than on my SDS100. Biggest difference is the larger speaker that can handle the lower-end of the audio spectrum MUCH better than the tiny speaker in the SDS100.
Brevard County P25 (00A.92077)
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I'm just hoping someone involved in the county's radio system administration team reads this message.
DON'T do what Osceola County did, and add their school buses to the public safety radio system!
They still don't know that they're not talking on CB Channel 19. Communications procedures? What's that?
No doubt some Harris salesdroid really wants to write the contract for a few more million bucks worth of radios
and load the system down even more, but I say...don't. Their UHF system works fine, radios are 500 bucks or so,
and having that kind of communications 'quality' on a public safety trunked system makes NO sense anywhere.
DON'T do what Osceola County did, and add their school buses to the public safety radio system!
They still don't know that they're not talking on CB Channel 19. Communications procedures? What's that?
No doubt some Harris salesdroid really wants to write the contract for a few more million bucks worth of radios
and load the system down even more, but I say...don't. Their UHF system works fine, radios are 500 bucks or so,
and having that kind of communications 'quality' on a public safety trunked system makes NO sense anywhere.
the Brevard school buses are on VHF, but that's not germane - I agree with you that they do not belong on a PS system.
Now, if you want to expand your message - let's talk about the Space Coast Area Transit buses...... and them being on the old EDACS system... because I would bet they get ported over to the P25 system. Then we can discuss L3Harris facility security being on a PS trunk.....
OFF TOPIC: someone should sell a nice DMR trunk to the school system so that the schools and the school buses are all on the same system (and frequency band).....
The SCAT buses started on the P25 system today
I'm not sure how the law is actually interpreted but the NPSPAC 800 MHz frequencies are ostensibly for "public safety" usage only, It's very much a question for interpretation as to whether or not specific activities qualify as 'public safety' concerns. Something tells me that while you might argue for a legitimate need for road and bridge crews, and maybe even for school bus traffic, when it comes down to public transportation, you're now in a very dark grey area. I don't think the SCAT buses should be on the system, in fact I question whether even Coastal non emergency transport qualifies. Certainly Harris corporate security doesn't.
In regards to Coastal, the recently started emergency transport for parts of the county.
Public transportation is planned by entities for evacuation usage, so yes they can be part of the overall public safety program. At my former employer they are in the plan to assist with evacuations out of the Belle Glade area in the event of issues with the dike around Lake Okeechobee and for hurricane evacuations for those that need transportations assistance to locations such as the Special Care Unit. They have also participated in our domestic security exercises that plan for mass evacuations.
Palm Beach County's "Palm Tran" has been on the county system since around 2005 with ~300 vehicles (buses & support) on 3 talk-groups and access to the EM Commons for interoperability. They are treated as part of the Public Safety family.
this makes sense to me. What I do not know is how SCAT plays into the bigger overall Brevard picture in this scenario ---- one would think they are part of the plan.... but .... who knows.
As far as L3H security radios on the public safety system, I'm surprised they don't have security equipped with RF-7850M-HH radios so they could inter-cumminicate with any L3H facility security force throughout the U.S. or even the globe.
That may have been considered overkill for guarding the snack machines.😁
That may have been considered overkill for guarding the snack machines.😁
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