Bye Bye Broken Arrow

[rfradioconsult]

Broken Arrow is currently removing the EDACS radios from the PD & FD vehicles and replacing them with Open Sky radios.

 

[mikey60]

Broken Arrow is currently removing the EDACS radios from the PD & FD vehicles and replacing them with Open Sky radios.

I feel for you. My city switched to OpenSky about 3 months ago...

Mike

 

[Sparky_one]

Harris is really getting big very quick. They already had locked in the television xmtr market and then picked up Ma\Com who had picked up Open Sky. I was at NAB this year and the Harris booth was like a $500,000 monstrosity, again. There have been some anecdotal stories of Open Sky failures and MaCom had filed suit against the state of NY for dumping them when it failed there. They probably had similar problems when the ProVoice system went live here.

 

[Secret_Squirrel]

Broken Arrow is currently removing the EDACS radios from the PD & FD vehicles and replacing them with Open Sky radios.

I consider it no great loss and a sign of the times.

 

[Medic32]

With this open sky in effect, will the Tulsa to BA Talkgroup for patching still be operational?

 

[rfradioconsult]

Yes. BTW the new mobiles will do Opensky, EDACS and P25.

 

[javfd]

what is opensky system

 

[rfradioconsult]

Opensky is a digital format that is un-monitorable, the technology is based upon CDPD standard,

 

[Bustergrn]

BAPD is installing OpenSky2. The problems with other OpenSky systems have been with the original OpenSky. It was my understanding that OpenSky was based on TDMA technology.

 

[rfradioconsult]

Opensky and Opensky II can both be traced back to CDPD; TDMA based technology