Norman
OUAlumni said:
YF=trunked not conventional. The locations that they have licensed these for are identical to what are on their other trunked system license. This would lead me to believe that they are adding these frequencies to their trunk system.
Good catch. I assumed two frequencies wouldn't make much of a trunked system, so I didn't check the radio services designator. I'm still not sure why they issue a new license instead of modifying the original...but that's our government at work.
OUAlumni said:
That aside, what do you mean by a "growing number of agencies who are setting up conventional repeaters for backup when (not if) their trunked system fails"? Who is doing that?
This is something I have noticed only recently, but seems to have been going on even before Katrina. For example,
Wichita/Sedgwick County, KS has been trunked for more than 10 years. A couple of years ago, they set up
three conventional repeaters, one for each of the
Police Districts.
The
City of Tulsa recently set up a
new conventional repeater for Police use.
In
Creek County, the City of Sapulpa has switched operations over to the
State DPS TRS. however, they still maintain two conventional repeaters (
WNYR706 and
WQDV516 for police and
one for fire. The
Creek County Sheriff maintains a
conventional repeater for jail operations and backup.
Just seems to me that trunked users have finally figured out that computers fail. Radio towers fail and usually those are not times you would want to be without emergency communications.
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