KUTV Investigates: Radio Silence

bneilson

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@buddrousa sorry you read so much into my question and are obviously offended by it. Your profile didn’t say you were from Utah so I was simply asking if you were familiar with the specific situation we have here in Utah. I didn’t say your comments weren’t welcome, they were just generic and more along the lines of defending the system and ignoring the issues that are actually being experienced so I was curious.
 

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Public safety radios do not HAVE to cost 8k to 10k....
ignorant sheep buying wolves crap.

but again, there can't be a problem, L3Harris knows everything.
(Like mounting TX and RX antennas at same height on oppisite sides of the tower)
 

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Not defending system only explaining how basic setups go and lead to unhappy users which include protentional users not testing range and coverage then finding out there are system short comings. Its like this Harris wants to sell UCA a System UCA wants to sell access to its System to get money back. Harris and UCA are alot like USED CAR SALESMAN that YELLOW PAINT IS A SPECIAL PRIMER.
 

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Of course you would seperate Tx and Rx antennas, me too....but they sure as h#@$ did not do that at least on the 1st site here in good ole VZ county tx
side by side...
 

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Havent seen that yet, polyphasers at the top...lol
It may be a West Texas thing, but every site I saw out there with Harris had them at the top and the top only. I saw a tower crew at one site and he said that's what was on the drawings from Harris. And the way crews are these days they just do whatever they're told.
 

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But back to saving Responders if they are having coverage in buildings they need to add sites or correct site and antenna problems.
Who ever mounted those antennas at that site opened the door to Gross Negligence.

Gross negligence is when someone acts in a way that shows a reckless disregard for the safety of others, or fails to act when they should have. It's more than ordinary negligence, but less than intentional misconduct.
Examples of gross negligence:
  • A doctor amputating the wrong limb
  • A surgeon leaving a foreign object in a patient
  • Speeding in a parking lot
  • A caregiver not feeding an elderly person for days
    • A business selling a product they know is harmful
    • A driver failing to yield at a roundabout
    • A store owner not putting up a sign about a wet floor
    • A truck driver texting and driving
 

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our coverage issues cover the whole state with the mountaininas terrain here the county had put in my area extra towers to solve the coverage issues, but because the state don't own those areas they had to put sites in areas they owned instead of where the county owned. if linked together, (which some is ) uhp has different coverage than let say the ambulance has since ambulance is using the nxdn county system and the uhp is using the state p25 system, yet its all patched together...... county was going to go on their own and not go for the p25 system and the city was for it, including other counties. then city decided to buy 800 radios from the state at a discount,, then either Harris or the state came in and told the county we are installing p25 on all radios and took over the county Channel with price fire and price city getting the radios the county had to let them because they both ran off the same Channel. so then because of coverage issues the state put a site at price dispatch psap. with solved the price coverage issues for price city on 800. then the switch happened , and everyone in the state with each cutover was experiencing couldn't hear the other party problem. the problem soon resolved after a few days after the cutover, but there are still many holes in coverage that haven't been resolved.. they either need to sure up the power to the sites or at sites inbetween to fix the problem.
 
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