The transition should be complete by years end (this year.......finally). My understanding is that a new Police Sector 7 is or will be setup by the County and Fire units (HTBF) may be switched to the current Fire Channel 9. Nor sure if the Ch.9 switch will require the county to modify any tower setups or not. Still some speculation as to Fire dispatch, HTBF may keep their 46.22 dispatch (operated by the County) or they may possibily move over to 46.48.
That was the news bit, next comes my little often repeated rant..........
I personally hope the county uses this change on the fire side to update to a dispatch plan that could make a big improvement to County responders. I have long thought that a migration a to 500MHz dispatch (not just a 'part time patch' like we now have) would be the best choice for the users. It would allow those who carry portables the ability to monitor dispatch (and have them act as pagers) and it would allow for responders to use a voice pager with the ability to switch up to the operations channel to keep abreast of the call staus while responding. We had this type of pager setup back in the 80's but we have "progressed" ourselves out of the ability by having dispatch and ops on different bands.
That was the news bit, next comes my little often repeated rant..........
I personally hope the county uses this change on the fire side to update to a dispatch plan that could make a big improvement to County responders. I have long thought that a migration a to 500MHz dispatch (not just a 'part time patch' like we now have) would be the best choice for the users. It would allow those who carry portables the ability to monitor dispatch (and have them act as pagers) and it would allow for responders to use a voice pager with the ability to switch up to the operations channel to keep abreast of the call staus while responding. We had this type of pager setup back in the 80's but we have "progressed" ourselves out of the ability by having dispatch and ops on different bands.