Let me be perfectly honest: The EDACS system used by Brevard County has turned out to be an excellent, highly reliable system that is actually considerably BETTER for us "professional level" scanner enthusiasts than any Motorola trunking system could be. System availability is very high, in fact, I can't personally
recall any time at which any of the system's sites was totally unavailable for more than a few minutes.
Even in failsoft, communications still get through.
The majority of communications problems are due to, believe it or not, errors in the system channel
sets in some of the radios. If one is wrong, you get silence when that channel is called up. When
those errors were found, they were corrected.
There are occasional glitches in the firmware in individual radios. That's why M/A-Com issues new
releases so often.
I was never a GE fan. I was the ultimate Moto fanboy for a long time, and you may already know that.
But these days, I'm pretty close to impartial. Both companies have their strengths and weaknesses,
and the same can be said for their trunking systems.
And, on Brevard county, you don't need no stinkin' system key to program up a "real" radio, which is
always a sticky point when dealing with Mother M.
I work for a legit, authorized licensee of the M/A-Com Programmer and RPM software packages. There
is no legal obstacle to my programming up radios for anyone who asks, so long as they accept the fact
that nobody is going to get transmit access to a single group for any reason without a notarized, gold-
leafed letter of authorization from God Himself, or his designated agent.
I carry a 7200. You can't read it without RPM version 3. (Well, really it's a 7100 hiding in 7200 cosmetics, inside and out.)
As a result, if you see anyone in Brevard County with a 7200 clipped to his jeans, that'd almost
certainly be me. I don't think there's yet a single 7200 in the county.
Elroy