Nevada public safety radio system gets OK

[gvranchosbill]

Im just a bit confused but we have a system thats been in place for a while that is an 800 Mhz statewide system that has same partners.
If this is another newer system how are they going to use more 800 Mhz spectrum when most is being used now with NSRS & WCRCS in operation.
I bet com501 knows the answer to this.
If this is the p25 system ive been hearing about, so much for my bct15 reciever for trunked systems there are none that i can hear where i live except NSRS and WCRCS all LTR systems on UHF are now DMR.

https://www.recordcourier.com/news/nevada-public-safety-radio-system-gets-ok/
Nevada public safety radio system gets OK
Geoff Dornan
gdornan@nevadaappeal.com
September 12, 2018

The Nevada transportation board chaired by Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday approved an agreement with Harris Communications to build the long-awaited statewide shared radio system.

The 800 mega-Herz radio system is designed to allow law enforcement, public safety workers, utility workers and others to communicate with not only their own agency but all other agencies.

"In Southern Nevada, if we have a trooper standing next to a metro officer, will they be able to talk to each other?" asked Sandoval.

Denise Inda, the engineer who managed development of the agreement, said yes, that complete inter-operability is a key requirement of the projects.

The system is being paid for by the three main partners — the Nevada Department of Transportation and NHP, Washoe County and NV Energy.

But many details of the project, including the total price, are being held confidential until the agreement is executed by all the partners and Harris Communications.

Sandoval said that confidentiality, including company proprietary technical information and the price, is mandated by statute.

"I'm relying on the advice of counsel," he said.

In earlier meetings on the system, total price estimates ranged well above $100 million.

To eliminate dead spots where there's no radio reception, the company will have to build and install 114 radio transmitter/receiver/repeater sites across the state — many of them on remote and hard to access mountain tops. NDOT will operate 66 of those sites, NV Energy 37 and Washoe County 11 sites on behalf of an estimated 16,000 users.

The entire system will take six years to build and install.

Inda said they plan to take details of the agreement including the cost to the Interim Finance Committee in October.

There were only two bidders for the massive project after a thorough vetting with numerous safeguards to ensure the process was as objective as possible and Harris came out on top, Inda said.

The new radio system will replace several outmoded systems including the old state system that's so old the manufacturer has stopped technical support for it. Planning and development of the new system has been in the works for most of a decade.

 

[bryan_herbert]

This is the new NSRS. It will be P25II with built-in encryption. We wont know if encryption will be used until the users of NSRS start transferring over to this new system.

 

[gvranchosbill]

I know next to nothing regarding p25 phase II i was under impression that this type was motorola exclusive but by asking is how i learn i know i could research it but i dont have time at moment however i will be thinking what kind reciever im going to want to upgrade to obviously encryption wont make a difference so i guess i will wait till it starts to come online.
Its to bad after all bugs are worked out on the edacs system that suppprt has ended.
Ive been in places in western nevada and currently there are still spots where u get picket fence signal reception im curious how digital will work in those areas if it doesnt they are going to be spending a lot more money than estimated.
Just as i get used to a system it changes.
NDOT went from VHF LOW to VHF HIGH repeater system and it worked great then the NSRS 800Mhz system i find works pretty good, then the NHP disaster and experienced that first hand as duty tow operator for NHP where a trooper was telling me that the communications that day could had cost him his life and that was during the failed VHF HIGH TRUNKING system where they were operating illegal frequecies and begining of the NSRS 800Mhz with a lot of dead spots, i was sent to Hwy 395 and stateline for an impound but no trooper anywhere and i had no communications where i was and had to find a pay phone at topaz lodge gas station the only payphone in existance and its still there and works, i was then sent by NHP dispatch to Hwy 88 and stateline and i never saw a trooper more bent out of shape and frustrated with there radio system he had called for impound about 2 hours prior to myself arriving and 20 minutes is what your supposed to arrive at he didnt blame me he was upset that he may need backup asap and lack of could cost him his life.
Now changing over again makes me wonder if they have taken all the past problems and know that digital may create some new coverage problems and yes nevada has a huge area of very remote mtn tops and even with that they put up sites in between mtn tops to get better coverage on EDACS oh well i bet the oild system will be kept in place for quite a while and i guess that they can use 6.25 Khz steps i think currently EDACS STANDARD WIDEBAND is 12.5 Khz steps and the bleed over on to wideband may be an issue i suppose.