mike, you are failing to read what I have posted, otherwise arguing your position with obscure FEMA and interoperabilty references. Get off your soapbox and read what has been presented.
P25 systems are orchestrated by a zone controller, which comprises the logic and control of "a system." we track trunked radio systems in the database. The higher, overreaching participant in this system is the consortium, not Cobb County.
That's it man, boil it down... I don't care if Cobb county is leasing, renting, or loaning space to the higher level entity - it is all the same system, as indicated by the same system id and wacn.
Period. End of story.
I have to disagree. You don't live in Cobb county, you were not here as far as I am aware during the process to procure the system, you are not, nor have been a Cobb county employee or contractor, so how can you really state based on a system ID and WACN that our system, paid for solely by Cobb county taxpayer dollars, is indeed something other than what many have tried (in vain) to convince the powers that be to rename the system. If the sole purpose of the database is to track trunking systems, than it defeats the purpose if systems are not identified by their primary place of use and location.
The system is NOT interconnected as some have claimed, if that were the case, there would be site-to-site roaming and wide areas ID's in use- which there are not.
This system was solely purchased by Cobb county to replace our existing (and still working) Smartnet analog system. The zone controller was purchased by Cobb county and made available as a mutual aid resource to other agencies, it is important to know who paid for it because this demonstrates ownership, not some system ID or WACN as you seem to be hung up on.
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I am willing to bet that if Mrs. Roberts (from Cobb county 911, radio systems manager) or Rocky Moore (if you can find him) got on here and posted, some would still try to argue with them too (what do they know, right?) Nowhere in any documents on the public record at Cobb county refer to us receiving any funding from anywhere else for OUR new radio system than Cobb county taxpayers. Show me where this is wrong and I'll back off. So let me get this right Lindsay, would you argue that an automobile is yours if the title is not in your name? Just because you let someone else drive it, doesn't make it theirs. They can customize it all day long, but the bottom line is whoever paid for it and owns the title is the lawful, rightful owner.
