Irving PD application for radar

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Application is for a Sparrowhawk radar.
Yes, they seem to have all of the bucks. I laughed at Dave Chappelle when I observed the cops occupying the smoking area at that Godawful concert venue. They were advertising an upcoming band who draws cannabis smokers. The price of booze was sky high back then. This was when Irving PD was in the clear.
 

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EDIT: I see now this is for BVLOS ops for their drones. Did they get a BVLOS waiver from the FAA?
 

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Yes, they seem to have all of the bucks. I laughed at Dave Chappelle when I observed the cops occupying the smoking area at that Godawful concert venue. They were advertising an upcoming band who draws cannabis smokers. The price of booze was sky high back then. This was when Irving PD was in the clear.
It's amazing the money you can save when you build an entire EFJ Atlas system for the price of adding a single Motorola Simulcast site...
 

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If it was anything like the deal brokered at the airport, its buy the subs from us and we will put the system in gratus.
They were really wanting a system in their backyard.
 

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If it was anything like the deal brokered at the airport, its buy the subs from us and we will put the system in gratus.
They were really wanting a system in their backyard.
No actually. It was a case of the quote to add a few more simulcast sites was so outrageous that the city actually put a RFP out based on ISSI roaming. EFJ's proposal came back as such but most of the Irving subscribers are still Motorola but I believe future subscribers are going to shift to Viking due to them being half the cost of the Motorola subscribers. Part of the savings is also going into an ISSI IX at one of the big DFW DCs for interconnection with multiple systems in Texas.

The ironic thing, the radio system manager over in Irving is a former Motorola employee.
 

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The ironic thing, the radio system manager over in Irving is a former Motorola employee.
And the same guy that came up with the idiotic idea of putting a site at the top of the Fred Hartman bridge. You haven't lived until you've visited that site. So many dangers, with the first being stepping out of your vehicle with cars flying by at 70 MPH about 2' from you. One agency has a complete 4.1 SZ site of abandoned Quantars up there still because it's not worth it to bring them down.
 

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It's amazing the money you can save when you build an entire EFJ Atlas system for the price of adding a single Motorola Simulcast site...
As anyone seen any activity on the EFT Atlas system?
 
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