Franklin Springs Fire and PD to move to SouthernLinc

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According to articles from 92.1 WLHR and the Franklin County Citizen Leader, the City of Franklin Springs has voted to not follow Franklin County onto the new Harris P25 system and instead has decided to go to SouthernLinc using Harris subscribers. According to the articles, the city is guaranteed 100% coverage and offers "better quality radios" (although they are the exact same model as offered on the P25 system). The article states they are purchasing 4 XL-200P subscribers for $21,024 and service at a cost of $30 per month per radio. These 4 radios will be used for BOTH the fire and police departments according to the article. It will be interesting seeing how interoperability will work being how small the two agencies are and how reliant they are on outside agency aid. It will also be very interesting seeing how they utilize only 4 radios for operations for both agencies.

Franklin Springs City Council Approves New Communication System for Police, Fire Depts - 92.1 WLHR
Franklin Springs buys radio from Southern Linc | Franklin County Citizen Leader, Lavonia, Georgia

 

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Souther Stinc's coverage is far from "100 percent" and of what? The interstates or power truck bucket truck in the sky? This same flim flam game was played in the late 1990s when SL was iDEN and they promised the world. Everyone who migrated to SL, quickly migrated back to traditional LMR.

 

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Souther Stinc's coverage is far from "100 percent" and of what? The interstates or power truck bucket truck in the sky? This same flim flam game was played in the late 1990s when SL was iDEN and they promised the world. Everyone who migrated to SL, quickly migrated back to traditional LMR.

Very true on all points however the sheer stupidity of trying to cover that county with 4 towers is complete foolishness. So Franklin Springs may get better coverage on Linc than the new county system. One would think the County had everyone on board before pulling the trigger.