KF0SKV
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So far Troop B still has the low band whips, but Troop B uses the Statewide system about 50% of the time and I do believe NSP will still be using low band as needed for a while.
Perhaps somebody in the panhandle can better answer this question. NSP has been on the Statewide System in the panhandle for a good 2 years now, maybe they lost the low band whips? Or not.
Here is a small tidbit of information on how mutual aid (talking to other Police and Sheriff Depts.) is evolving with the Statewide Radio System:
Paraclete: A group in Central Nebraska piloted the Paraclete system© in 2007 to connect radio
frequencies together so there would be no disruptions when an event moved county to county. It was received so well
that homeland security grant program funds were used to hire Interop Solutions to install their Parclete system
statewide as a way to further mutual aid communications. This system uses the internet to patch radio frequencies
together so users can talk to each other. This year NEMA has been training dispatchers across the state on the uses and
capabilities of the Paraclete system. NEMA has plans to train Emergency Managers and other local communications
personnel in the future. NEMA has added three more persons to the training cadre and two more to the planning cadre,
so six teams are now conducting training across the state. There is currently an internet connection fee associated with
Paraclete use that is borne by local entities which could be eased when the NRIN data ring is complete.
In the not too distant future, most if not all City/County Law Enforcement/Fire/EMS within the State of Nebraska and selected out of state agencies near Nebraska borders will be tied into N-WIN in some way, shape, or form using Paraclete software. I don't have much information on Paraclete, again, can somebody chime in?
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