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
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.
Pending application for Mercer Co. Will it be on ICORRS? I dunno. But here it is
6-site (thus far), 6-frequency P25 simulcast
859.4625
861.0625
861.5125
861.7125
861.8875
861.9625
Interesting frequency lineup, so let's fee if it gets returned.
6-site (thus far), 6-frequency P25 simulcast
859.4625
861.0625
861.5125
861.7125
861.8875
861.9625
Interesting frequency lineup, so let's fee if it gets returned.
talviar
Member
What don't u know? It has been stated already that Mercer County will be on ICORRS.
In fact- their current dispatch consoles have been on ICORRS for some time already.
Looks like the same frequencies as the original application, correct?
Hey, I'm just a license messenger. I don't live in PA. I don't pay attention to ICORRS. Why would I know. Relax T.
Mike
talviar
Member
Look at the message directly above your initial post.....ur message @ 8:42 message stating part of Icorrs on Jan 2.
And as far as license and freqs I'm going to throw out that Mercer County is in close enough proximity to Canada- the freqs available might be a little bit different. Coordinator approved it so shouldn't be a major issue.
Yeah after you responded [and then I responded], I saw that somebody had even already posted the original license app (which was rejected a few times). So it was old news.
Ok on the freqs. Makes sense.
Mike
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talviar
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Mercer is already part of ICORRS. Their current consoles and conventional radios are in use thru the ICORRS system. Their trunking system is in build stage right now. Additionally Washington and Allegheny are a part of ICORRS and currently in build stage with the migration of data going into the ICORRS controller now.
Let me know when Mercer county arrives into the ICORRS system -- I'll look and see what frequencies they use because my G4 only supports 7/800 MHz
talviar
Member
As I stated- Mercer County has arrived into the ICORRS System. ICORRS System is not solely trunking. Their current conventional systems and dispatch consoles are on ICORRS and functioning thru ICORRS.
Their trunking sites are currently in build out. There have been a few delays due to tower construction and site acquisition and such. So if all you have is 700/800 u will have to wait till their trunking piece is done.
