KY County Upgrades Police, Fire and EMS Communication System

[scannerfreak]

Tyco Electronics announced today that its M/A-COM business has been awarded a $13.9 million contract to implement its Project 25IP radio communications system throughout Madison County, KY. The nine-site digital simulcast system will be customized to meet the requirements of Madison County's police, fire and EMS departments as well as the county's school bus fleet. The system upgrade will improve communication interoperability among emergency response personnel and with other agencies in and around Madison County.

More than 1,300 radios continue to be active on the system, which currently is used more than 300,000 times a month by Madison County's public safety agencies. Agencies of all three jurisdictions of Berea, Madison County and Richmond use the system for daily communication as well as during emergency situations that require collaboration and communication between the County's first responders.

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[Jono40141]

I can still pick this up with my digital scanner since its not ProVoice, Correct? I hope this improves their radios. Their signals are very weak and hard to pick up in the dorm room in the heart of this city. I can pick up the State Police perfectly and they operate on a digital network.

 

[kcfm6]

A perfectly good Moto system that, due to lack of Moto tech support, will be abandonded. Love to waste that federal $$.

 

[james32746]

I can still pick this up with my digital scanner since its not ProVoice, Correct? I hope this improves their radios. Their signals are very weak and hard to pick up in the dorm room in the heart of this city. I can pick up the State Police perfectly and they operate on a digital network.

MA/COM's P25IP is just their brand for a typical P25 9600 baud trunked system and can be monitored with your digital scanner (provided it is not a BC250D or BC785D which does not monitor P25 9600 baud systems).

 

[SLWilson]

NY Mess

I guess Kentucky didn't read about the mess MA/Comm is making out of the system they can't get to work up in the state of New York, huh?

Steve/KB8FAR

 

[Jono40141]

I agree they should have went Motorola on this. The state police also use the P25 and its perfect. I can pick them up 150 miles away. Its some crazy stuff. I don't know about this Ma/Com stuff. I hope they have hell with it and other agencies might turn away from it. Who knows. If it wouldn't work in New York then its not going to work anywhere right? You would think. 14 million is a waste with this system.

 

[N4JNW]

I've known they were going digital for awhile, but didn't know when they'd actually be pulling the trigger on it. UnitCharlie informed me about it, and that was Summer of Last year.

Glad I've got digital! They're one county over from us. Bring it on!

 

[jerk]

I guess Kentucky didn't read about the mess MA/Comm is making out of the system they can't get to work up in the state of New York, huh?

Steve/KB8FAR

It is a 96k APCO 25 system, vendor just happens to be Ma/Com, those systems work fine, and I've heard of no cost over runs or other problems. Digital sounds okay on my Scanner.

Beside, APCO 96K P25 is P25, doesn't matter if it comes form Motorola, Ma/Com or EF Johnson. And the neat thing it IP based also.

AL

 

[jerk]

I agree they should have went Motorola on this. The state police also use the P25 and its perfect. I can pick them up 150 miles away. Its some crazy stuff. I don't know about this Ma/Com stuff. I hope they have hell with it and other agencies might turn away from it. Who knows. If it wouldn't work in New York then its not going to work anywhere right? You would think. 14 million is a waste with this system.

Motorola is currently having there own problems. Plus they just bought Vertex which is going ruin an excellent brand. KSP is conventional. I can get 50 miles for a Ma/Com system that is APCO 96k P25 I.P. based, works fine and sounds fine.

The vendor in this case has nothing to do with it, It will be fine.

Motorola with all it's current troubles may not be, and they are the ones fighting the new Phase II standard, and they fought the Phase I standard, they are the ones that push non-standard equipments, and then jack the price up on us the taxpayers. I'm glad there is a choice out there.

 

[unitcharlie]

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[unitcharlie]

...and they are the ones fighting the new Phase II standard, and they fought the Phase I standard, they are the ones that push non-standard equipments, and then jack the price up on us the taxpayers. I'm glad there is a choice out there.

Imagine that, gouging the government for sub-standard, inop gear? Lord knows there aren't any lives on the line in Madison County if one of those igloos has a catastrophic failure and there is an exposure problem... but even with their current system they would have problems--with 1200 or so radios the system could only handle 7 mics keyed at once, then the thing would start to meltdown!

Josh, Jonathon and all others in the Madison County area we're gonna have to do some serious work to id this system.... the info I have found indicates they expect it to be on line mid- to late 2009, so we have a little bit of time as they start to put stand it up!

Trying to get myself up-to-speed on this whole change--looks like, at least initially, it is going to be an upgrade on their existing 800 meg system instead of moving to a 400 meg or 380 meg system... CSEPP rules require that there be a separate freq for coordination between the BGAD EOC and the Madison County EOC, so it looks like they will stay with 800 meg (besides they have been awarded a granted last year or the year before to buy new radios to replace the aging electronics they have used for the past decade or so).

So as not to pollute this thread too much, I'll post specific info as I find it in the Kentucky forum....

 

[jpigman]

fcc grants

any one know of any new grants for com. system for k. s. p post 9 pikeville ky if so please inform me thanks a lot jpigman ky