Las vegas open sky system issues

[brey1234]

Police Work Through Bugs of New Radio System

 

[karldotcom]

I thought that system was perfect!

 

[PJH]

Harris Corporation, meanwhile, wrote in a statement, "While the LVMPD OpenSky radio system provides significant improvements in functionality, it does include new system management typical of digital trunked systems, including the grant and deny tones that signal efficient call management.

Glad the channel grant and deny tones are still a best selling feature from 1980. Wow Harris. Really? Seems that I know of analog conventional radios that can do that too...

 

[bryan_herbert]

At least they didnt add Roger Beeps.

 

[Farscan]

It's sad that they can sell something for $40m and have those audio issues a year later, and really sad they are getting the deny tones. Plenty of channels on 700Mhz. Maybe another trunked repeater or two would solve that, but No money for that out of $40M. They said interagency patches don't work because the old is analog. They would be patching audio --not digital rf to analog, so not a good excuse. We as taxpayers need to expect our money is being better spent.. 12 yrs ago i had 10 radios on a motorola trunked system for radio, and the system worked flawlessly. It was like $9 a month per radio. Then nextel bought the frequencies.

 

[2wayfreq]

Well,
Best of luck to Metro, I hope that they do get any kinks out. Maybe it will be one of the few open sky systems that will be truly successful. If not, there's always Harris P25 Trunking with XG-100 radios.

 

[MTS2000des]

Why did they select BrokenSky over an IP25 solution? Did Harris sell this as a loss leader product? I can't believe with all the problems anyone would buy this.

"You can't polish a turd"

 

[gcr33]

Another example of Open Scam not working. Just like the stuff in Florida. Again I ask where has it ever worked correctly?
I can show you hundreds of Motorola type 1-2-p25 systems that worked perfectly.

Sounds like another Ma-Comm left over Harris got stuck with.

 

[scannerowner]

Yet another OpenSky problem, when are public safety officials going to learn?? They should do their research before they invest their time and money...

 

[Farscan]

Listen to LVMPD thru the rr audio -still patched to vhf. IT is annoying to listen to -every fourth transmission gets into a echoooo--Maybe they wanted it that way, just need a roger beep.

 

[K4APR]

Their money? Our money.

(I know I don't live in Las Vegas, but this statement applies to any local government's actions.)

 

[scannerowner]

Their money? Our money.

(I know I don't live in Las Vegas, but this statement applies to any local government's actions.)

That is true, but it'll suck when they decide to change it to P25 because the OpenSky wouldn't work right again for the umteenth time.... more money invested then more money to spend. Wish people would stop thinking money grows on trees.

 

[brianearlspilner]

Should've went P25 digital or joined with their neighbors on the SNACC system. If they were that worried about people listening in, they could've saved money and went P25 encrypted. Not this Open Sky garbage.

"The company points out "OpenSky performed perfectly" on New Year's Eve during what could be a huge communications challenge with more than 22,000 push-to-talk transmissions and not a single dropped or queued call."

Big whoop. How bout those other towns that have problems, Harris?

 

[mdickerson17]

OpenSky is failing once again! Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas police griping about radios - News - ReviewJournal.com

 

[MTS2000des]

OpenSky...this is what you get when you try to use a system designed like an SMR system for public safety. Reading this article reminds me of what the city of Birmingham, AL went through for years while they paid per minute for the privilege to use Southern Company's Southern LINC iDEN system. After 8 years of fooling with dead zones, "user busy try again 001" and not being able to interoperate with anyone, they bit the bullet and went to an Astro 25 700/800MHz DTRS.

Sounds like LVMPD is headed down the same path with Broken Sky.