Lake County back to VHF

[jimmnn]

Effective tomorrow at 8am they will switch all public safety agencies off DTR found it's coverage "unreliable" and back top there countywide VHF system.

Jim<

 

[Kevin_N]

Wow. Well spent tax-payer money.

Wonder if the state will add coverage for them. It's only more money.

 

[greenthumb]

The State won't - they don't have enough money to put up what they want, much less take care of what others want. But not a surprise - two sites can't fully cover a mountainous county like that one.

 

[n0nhj]

Yesterday & Today, all the law enforcement were still using the DTRS.
Nothing heard on VHF.

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

And yet they waisted $$ on New Site 358 witch I logged for a day and found local weld traffic of all sorts yet nothing I cant hear on several other sites. Unless they were so worried about a small patch of rural weld county why bother?

 

[greenthumb]

Weld County purchased that site, not the state. There are some interesting political dynamics going on there with public safety communications and a county commissioner that is making money fall from the sky these days into radio-related projects.

 

[superfreak]

There are a lot of sites statewide that "don't make sense" on a daily basis, but fill in critical holes in coverage. The site in Gateway Colorado and the new one down the road probably got a lot of action during the recent Paradise fire.

Those sites were built because local users and politicians planned and wrote grant requests.

The two sites were paid for by the Bereau of Reclamation. Maybe if Lake County wrote a grant for site in the immediate vicinity of Leadville, the coverage would have been acceptable?

 

[jimmnn]

Latest word this weekend during the Leadville 100 is they switched to VHF briefly the primary VHF site was struck by lightning and sustained lots of damage so now everyone is back on DTRS.

And 11801 was active when I traveled thru this afternoon and VHF was silent,

Jim<

 

[Thayne]

It is always good to have extra eggs in one's basket

 

[jeatock]

It is always good to have extra eggs in one's basket

... or two baskets.

 

[superfreak]

Latest word this weekend during the Leadville 100 is they switched to VHF briefly the primary VHF site was struck by lightning and sustained lots of damage so now everyone is back on DTRS.

And 11801 was active when I traveled thru this afternoon and VHF was silent,

Jim<

There is no lightning protection on any of their VHF repeater sites.

It is at least the third time it has been hit hard over the last 7 years..

 

[jeatock]

There is no lightning protection on any of their VHF repeater sites.

It is at least the third time it has been hit hard over the last 7 years..

Looks like R-56 doesn't apply at the stupid old fashioned analog sites, only at the shiny new ones. I wonder why. It is not a difficult retrofit.

 

[greenthumb]

Looks like R-56 doesn't apply at the stupid old fashioned analog sites, only at the shiny new ones. I wonder why. It is not a difficult retrofit.

With the 'shiny new' ones (and DTRS in particular), they (Motorola) won't touch it until it's compliant with R-56. Nobody cares on the old ones because a million people can take care of it. If the first guy complains that he won't work on the old stuff because it's not compliant with R-56, they'll move on to the next guy. That's just my opinion on why you don't see that so much.

 

[superfreak]

With the 'shiny new' ones (and DTRS in particular), they (Motorola) won't touch it until it's compliant with R-56. Nobody cares on the old ones because a million people can take care of it. If the first guy complains that he won't work on the old stuff because it's not compliant with R-56, they'll move on to the next guy. That's just my opinion on why you don't see that so much.

True with comment. Some of the equipment supplied by Motorola for the DTR sites specifically require contradictory installation methods to R56. So even Motorola contradicts itself.