Hopefully this will address the approximate 25 mile long dead spot on Highway 141 between Uravan in Montrose County to a few miles south of Gateway in Mesa County.
Montrose gets $1 million for radios, tower
By BEVERLY CORBELL
The Daily Sentinel
Saturday, May 17, 2008
MONTROSE — Being on the same wavelength with city cops helped Montrose Sheriff’s Department deputies catch a suspected bank robber last week, and thanks to a new $1 million grant, high-tech radios will be even more widespread in the county.
The Montrose Police Department has had 800-MHz radios for several years, but the Sheriff’s Department just got the digital devices a few months ago. Because of the improved communications, the agencies were able to talk to each other and quickly nab a bank robbery suspect Tuesday.
Not all agencies in the county have the expensive radios, which cost around $500 each, and some areas, such as the county’s West End, have dead spots where radio communication is all but impossible, said Robyn Funk, the county’s emergency management coordinator.
That problem will be solved, because the grant will pay for a new radio tower on the West End near King Solomon Mine, Funk said.
The new radios will make communication more consistent among county and town departments and emergency personnel in all areas, she said.
The grant, for $1,068,915, came from the Department of Commerce and was funneled through the state Office of Homeland Security. Funk said she and communications engineer Mark Young wrote the grant request in November.
Funk said she doesn’t know how many radios will be bought, but they will go to various agencies, including law enforcement and emergency personnel in Olathe and the West End, and employees of the county’s Road and Bridge and Public Works departments, she said.
“Now everybody will be able to talk to everybody,” she said.•
E-mail Beverly Corbell at bcorbell@gjds.com.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/05/17/051808_3A_Montrose_radios.html
Montrose gets $1 million for radios, tower
By BEVERLY CORBELL
The Daily Sentinel
Saturday, May 17, 2008
MONTROSE — Being on the same wavelength with city cops helped Montrose Sheriff’s Department deputies catch a suspected bank robber last week, and thanks to a new $1 million grant, high-tech radios will be even more widespread in the county.
The Montrose Police Department has had 800-MHz radios for several years, but the Sheriff’s Department just got the digital devices a few months ago. Because of the improved communications, the agencies were able to talk to each other and quickly nab a bank robbery suspect Tuesday.
Not all agencies in the county have the expensive radios, which cost around $500 each, and some areas, such as the county’s West End, have dead spots where radio communication is all but impossible, said Robyn Funk, the county’s emergency management coordinator.
That problem will be solved, because the grant will pay for a new radio tower on the West End near King Solomon Mine, Funk said.
The new radios will make communication more consistent among county and town departments and emergency personnel in all areas, she said.
The grant, for $1,068,915, came from the Department of Commerce and was funneled through the state Office of Homeland Security. Funk said she and communications engineer Mark Young wrote the grant request in November.
Funk said she doesn’t know how many radios will be bought, but they will go to various agencies, including law enforcement and emergency personnel in Olathe and the West End, and employees of the county’s Road and Bridge and Public Works departments, she said.
“Now everybody will be able to talk to everybody,” she said.•
E-mail Beverly Corbell at bcorbell@gjds.com.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/05/17/051808_3A_Montrose_radios.html
