Hendricks county fire dispatch going encrypted

[speedway_navigator]

We appealed last year's assessment and got a $280 credit on this year's bill. We filed an appeal last night because we are listed for 2 full baths but only have a shower in the master.

A fire chief had a 2 way dealer clone his portable into a Viking and it worked fine for his test period, no one knew. Steel dynamics offered 10 free portables to our FD but then 911 director Steve Cook refused to issued IDs so we spent about $50,000 on Motorola.
I just found out Whitely county has the AXS system.

I'm doing research to see what advantages it might have. If we break free from Motorola we can use consoles from independent vendors.
We all want the best performance for the least cost.

 

[mmckenna]

Your county's purchasing department should be involved. Standard government purchasing rules usually nix this sort of stuff, unless someone is allowing it to happen, or someone found a loophole that needs to be closed.

We recently started a joint project with our county, and while I'm bound to all kinds of strict purchasing rules through my job, I had to sign all kinds of new documents saying that I'd abide by the county rules also.

 

[speedway_navigator]

The director's actions probably violated state policy but the fire chief did not push it. Now that the state's radio system is moving under our state DHS we are hoping there will be more transparency.

 

[INDaviation]

I have read somewhere here on the forums that Hamilton County will indeed be encrypting fire dispatch as well!

GTO_04

I'm curious as to where you heard about this. My agency borders them and they have not indicated to us they'll be encrypting further.

 

[GTO_04]

I'm curious as to where you heard about this. My agency borders them and they have not indicated to us they'll be encrypting further.

http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/hamilton-county-encrypted.450371/post-3903050

 

[INDaviation]

3 years ago (from a dubious source) and nothing has come of it.

 

[infinite_wisdom]

If there is one thing Hendricks County is good at, it is covering stuff up. This is all a ploy to keep things hush hush. At least for now it seems they will keep the online feed. Hopefully they don't take that away!!

 

[Dispatch2323]

Online feed should stay but on 30 minute delay.

 

[Dispatch2323]

Hamilton County Fire has no plans to encrypt at this time.