Looks like Mercer County is moving forward with an upgrade. Anyone have any information ? Will they be joining ICORRS ?
Mercer County
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Part of the growing membership to the ICORRS club.
www.indianagazette.com
Commissioners approve adding Allegheny, Washington counties to ICORRS
The Indiana County Commissioners took action this week to facilitate adding two more counties, Allegheny and Washington, to the ICORRS (Inter County Regional Radio System) now including Indiana as well
Cost for county radio project climbs $2 million
MERCER — Rising costs and change orders will increase the bottom line of the county’s project to overhaul and improve the emergency responder radio system by about $2 million, but
Lawrence and Mercer evaluating the potential for a 911 center merger.
www.cbsnews.com
Lawrence, Mercer Counties 911 centers looking into pros and cons of potential merger
With so much overlap already, Lawrence County and Mercer County are exploring a merger of their 911 call centers.
www.cbsnews.com
jeffm77
Member
And you know, once Allegheny County joins ICORRS, all the PDs will more than likely be encrypted. Therefore, we will lose more stuff to monitor.
At this rate the whole state will either be on this, SCIN, or STARNet in a few years. Not sure if I should be happy or annoyed we spent the money to build out our own a few years ago. At least we have full control with nobody looking over our shoulders. I guess?
talviar
Member
Advantages of a "Shared system"
-Initial costs are cheaper (Master Site aka trunking controller costs several million)
-maintenance costs are cheaper as Master site maintenance is shared across all entities.
Those costs are quite extensive savings
Savings are nice but I like being in my own sandbox where I can decide what I want. Not have it given to me because everyone else has it so I have to, too.
Yes, they will be part of the ICORRS system. Looking forward to hearing the new system on the air. I'm told that all PDs will be encrypted, but Fire & EMS will not.
