Indiana running out of radio IDs for Statewide system

[blantonl]

This article details how the Indiana Statewide system is running out of radio IDs. 52,000 of the 64,000 available IDs to radios is on pace to run out by this fall.

Indiana running short of emergency radio codes - chicagotribune.com

 

[N_Jay]

There was some news about this a while back.

Some say the problem is the IDs were assigned in blocks, so so there are many more "assigned" than actually used.

I am not sure if that has been corrected in these latest numbers?

 

[scannerfreak]

Discussion going on here:

http://forums.radioreference.com/in...requencies-emergency-radios-being-filled.html

 

[blantonl]

What would fix this quickly is a chargeback mechanism that would be paid by each agency per assigned radio ID. And when you dig down into it, the need for contiguous blocks of IDs assigned to agencies is ridiculous. Put in place a nice workflow system that assigns vacant radio IDs to new radios... (a portal or other easy to use provisioning process) and away you go.