Is there a Texas TPSCS system ?

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jack3726

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Michigan has a MPSCS = Michigan Public Safety Communications System. This system is to allow other agencies and cities to connect and to utilize towers on the digital 800. Just wondering if something like this is going on here, if so would the Texas DPS compare to this.
 

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down here, it's actually the REVERSE: the DPS in a regional area prefers to carry a radio from the local TRS as well as their VHF rig in order to be "interoperable" with the local big-city PD.

but they appear to be working on digitizing their existing VHF repeaters throughout the state - no word on whether it will be "networked".
 

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This is from an earlier thread:

DPS in is the early stages of implemenint a test to link all DPS radio consoles with all DPS Comm sites and then with other agency consoles for an interoperability test. OK Highway Patrol has been ask if they would like to be included in the test. Due to be implemented Nov 1, 2004.

So far I have not heard anything linked.

Tom
 

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155.370 base and 154.950 mobiles have worked all these years I hate all of this new technology.... I think it is gonna bite them all on the as* on of these days.
I can rememeber when Clay or Wichita Counties would use the Intercity freqs to call across the river for assitance or give a heads up or vic a versa.
 

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Well to go along with the interop thing many of the TX DPS and TPWD and a few other State Agencies all use VHF and are able to talk to each other and have each other's channels.
 

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There is no excuse for public safety users not being able to talk to eachother in Texas.

All state agencies with high band radios are supposed to have the Immediate Interoperability Plan frequencies programmed in their radios now and the rest of the public safety agencies should have them too if they have any brains at all.
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=899 (see links at bottom)

All dispatch points are supposed to monitor TEXAS LAW2 and NPSPAC1 (if they have 800MHz) at all times.

There are also two new DOJ interoperability repeater pairs available in the DFW and Houston areas
http://www.nctcog.org/hs/interoperable/pdf/channel.assignment.pdf

not to mention the rest of the nationwide public safety and NTIA interoperability channels
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=download&id=760

If I can find out all this information (and I'm not even a government employee)
why the hell can't all the police chiefs, fire chiefs, sheriffs, communications directors,
etc. get a clue and get their radios programmed and train their people?
Hell, they can't even say "Texas Law 2" instead of "Intercity" like they
are supposed to!


Tom
 

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yup - right up until a building collapses and 10,000 people pick up the phone to call 911...

all this interop brings to mind another question: in cities where encryption is the law of the land for Police Communications (e.g., Laredo), do the regional DPS have to carry the crypto-capable units as well to call for assistance or vice versa?

in recent threads, it was pointed out that the Texas DPS tend to carry portable units that operate on the local PD's TRS...
 

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do the regional DPS have to carry the crypto-capable units as well to call for assistance or vice versa?

I don't know what Laredo is like, but most digitally encrypted radios automatically receive unencrypted and/or analog transmissions.
 

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well when a terrorist incident happens in Texas and all the cell phones fail, Nextel comes crashing down and agencies can't cross talk because NPSPAC goes to hell. and no one has digital capability with DPS then We can All turn to the Even-More-Trusty Fugitive Radio System or FRS which does work well in Texas ........ unless your on IH-35 and have to listen to some old laddies gossiping about their husbands.......
 
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