Dawson County P25

[ThreatLevelMidnight]

**New System Master Thread**

Dawson County has entered into a $9.8 Million contract to construct a new 800 MHz Simulcast P25 system for the county.

https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/daga-pubu/MEET-Packet-6d1d074f64ef4f4bb8907073f0eded05.pdf

 

[MTS2000des]

AXS consoles, we're looking at those, as the MCC7500 and 7500Es are being EOL'ed soon. Looks like they outbid CI and are getting a heck of a discount. I know the PM, this will be a great system for the users.

 

[ThreatLevelMidnight]

AXS consoles, we're looking at those, as the MCC7500 and 7500Es are being EOL'ed soon. Looks like they outbid CI and are getting a heck of a discount. I know the PM, this will be a great system for the users.

By the looks of it, that price difference was absolutely incredible. Can't wait to see it all come together!

 

[ProBlab]

So based on this, it sounds like they are building a stand alone system and not planning to integrate with either the Cobb or Hall County systems?

 

[ThreatLevelMidnight]

So based on this, it sounds like they are building a stand alone system and not planning to integrate with either the Cobb or Hall County systems?

Correct, they are building a standalone system

 

[kb4he]

how many sites did CI propose?

 

[wsp44]

how many sites did CI propose?

I would be curious to know how may they proposed as well

 

[DanRollman]

I would be curious to know how may they proposed as well

You could click the link above and learn all about that. Or not?

 

[wsp44]

You could click the link above and learn all about that. Or not?

moto presentation only

 

[DanRollman]

moto presentation only

Sorry for the sarcasm. I thought you were asking how many sites they are getting. It's a good question you ask, now that I understand it.

 

[kb4he]

I have not seen the RFP so I don't know what the County asked for. However, I don't see anyway that 4 sites would provide any reasonable measure of indoor portable coverage. With only 4 sites, I would expect the loss of a single site will have a significant effect to portable coverage. As the CI proposal is almost double and several million more than Habersham with 6 sites, I expect the CI proposal included more sites to provide more indoor coverage and coverage redundancy.

 

[wsp44]

Sorry for the sarcasm. I thought you were asking how many sites they are getting. It's a good question you ask, now that I understand it

No problem, I really wanted to say "why the hell would both of us have asked if we could have simply clicked the link" but there is no sense in getting in a keyboard fight.

 

[wsp44]

I have not seen the RFP so I don't know what the County asked for. However, I don't see anyway that 4 sites would provide any reasonable measure of indoor portable coverage. With only 4 sites, I would expect the loss of a single site will have a significant effect to portable coverage. As the CI proposal is almost double and several million more than Habersham with 6 sites, I expect the CI proposal included more sites to provide more indoor coverage and coverage redundancy.

Looks like only 9 buildings were specified for in building coverage based on the presentation by Moto... But man, L3 and CI being almost 8 million higher, they weren't even close... Hopefully they had multiple other sites included.

 

[ccfire]

Does anyone know if maybe Pickens may join this or cobb or have their own system aswell

 

[terryl900]

Pickens County has on their up coming commissioner meeting “Consideration and Approval of an MOU with Dawson County for Radio System Communication” I wonder if Pickens is wanting to join Dawson on their system?

 

[tvengr]

Sorry for the sarcasm. I thought you were asking how many sites they are getting. It's a good question you ask, now that I understand it.

If this is the new system, the license shows 6 frequencies and 3 sites. WSDQ852. May be more to come. One site is in Pickens County.

 

[RRR]

Could be an interoperability agreement, as in, they have a radio that has access to their system at 911, and vice-versa, that they can patch to as desired. This goes on in a lot of places these days, patched and un-patched

 

[MTS2000des]

MOUs are common practice between agencies for patching, cross programming, and mutual aid system access. None of this equates to "sharing a system core" and those agreements usually are more like IGAs with cost sharing all spelled out.

 

[TxDuster]

Good Morning all. I've been out of town for a week and just got back to the office (Dawson County). I'm not hearing any scanner traffic this morning on conventional channels. Did the digital switch get thrown over the past few days in Dawson Co.?

 

[TxDuster]

I'm hearing DCSO traffic again today on the conventional frequencies. FCC database is back up and looking at the frequency list for the license referenced earlier in the thread.