This system is supposed to be live. Anyone copied any talkgroups yet? Given the money that DHS gave them, I doubt anything will be left unencrypted.
Harrison-Monongalia-Marion system
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As I understand it, this system will be expanded to cover all of West Virginia over the next few years. This is an attempt to being everyone together on one unified system; hence, promoting interoperability among all public safety first responders. However, the downside to this new system is that everyone will have to spend some serious money to monitor their local agencies once they make the switch.
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Ron
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That's what I was told, as well. There are already sites in four or five northern counties (I see that Monongalia County [Morgantown] has recently added sites), funded with federal tax dollars. There are also discussions about spreading remote bases linked to current systems around the state and then linking them together on the state's EMS microwave backbone; users will be able to patch selected systems together that way. Perhaps eventually the UHF trunked system will be part of that interop system.
I wonder how effective or usable such a system will be in a real disaster, plugging up two channels with the same traffic. (If there's a real disaster, and you plan on patching Charleston PD F-1 with Morgantown PD F-1, please let me know in advance so I can flee the state.)
I wonder how effective or usable such a system will be in a real disaster, plugging up two channels with the same traffic. (If there's a real disaster, and you plan on patching Charleston PD F-1 with Morgantown PD F-1, please let me know in advance so I can flee the state.)
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