Fayetteville PD trunked system
Which makes no sense. Considering that Cumberland County on VIPER is the same
type of radio system that Fayetteville is using (Motorola). Both systems should be able to be programmed into one radio.
Heck, I have 5 different Motorola systems in my Motorola XTS5K and have no problem switching between them.
This sounds to me like a failure of whoever is responsible for programming the radios
and not on Mr Vorhees (who is an intelligent guy).
Marshall KE4ZNR
Marshall,
It's not a programming issue, its a state of mind here...we have both "systems" in the same radio, but you can't listen to both at the same time as you could if FPD and surrounding agencies were all on VIPER. In this day of shrinking budgets, a lot of units are using a portable only, which means they have to park on their system and cannot hear the other. Unless the guys from Moto are leading me astray, I have found no way to listen to both (scan) systems at the same time on my portable. So I carry an old MTS2000 clipped on my seat organizer and my new portable in a pro clip mount on the console, just to hear FPD on their system and all of the stuff I need for work on VIPER. When FPD makes their jump to this new system, everyone here will still be in the same position they are now...so technology progress, yes...interop progress...no.
I made this same statement to a high-ranking official in the PD here, was told it "didn't matter, we don't work with them anyway, so we don't listen to them".
As a 33 year LE veteran, a Chief, and a veteran Federal TFO, I find it unacceptable for a region that is so incredibly busy and violent to not be moving toward more radio-interoperability with the agencies that surround them. I've worked all over the State, including Durham, and not being able to talk to the local agency/officers is always a handicap. When the SHTF, I don't want to have to start selecting zones and making major shifts in where I am parked on my portable radio to get help, and I darn sure want the deputy sitting in the parking lot of the convenient store behind which I am getting my butt kicked to be able to hear me calling for help!
This doesn't have anything to do with Durham...great agency and the guys I know at Motorola and beyond say you guys have a pretty good radio shop, too
! Not an indictment of Vorhees' intelligence, just disappointed that he is supporting (unknowingly to him?) the Fayetteville/Cumberland County separatist attitude of exclusivity instead of interoperability!
Bill