mondaro said:
That's the same inside word where getting here. There having a hard time just getting the basic stuff to work at the NJSP . Also if you talk to most any department who has gone P25 there are nothing but problems and also the funding is not there any time soon to properly upgrade the system.
Tony, let me play devil's advocate (of sorts). I personally am not aware of any trunked system - ditital, analog, mixed mode, whatever - that hasn't had bugs over the first few years of operation.
That said, I do agree the digital systems in some areas where I live seem to have coverage problems, such as Philadelphia's two separate systems for PD and FD/Municipal services, particularly in parts West Philadelphia. Other systems seem to work fine, such as Delaware's digital TRS (except for that one freq that seems to hang all the time) and Montgomery County's mixed-mode TRS.
Getting back to the Jersey side of the Delaware, I've monitored Burlington County a couple of times, but that's one very confusing system to program and monitor. Haven't had the chance to monitor Atlantic City's mixed mode system yet, so I'll reserve judgement on it at this time.
Like it or not, and I can respect your views on it since you're getting first hand knowledge of how well a system works (or doesn't) from your employment, digital seems to be the way things are going, and part of it is due to federal mandates (though I'm sure with more experience scanning someone could clarify that for me).
Hopefully that doesn't mean every other township or county that goes digital pulls a Kearny, Edison, or Jackson Twp (Ocean Co) and take advantage of digital upgrades to not only block public access to non-sensitive matters to scanners like us, but also to neighboring public safety agencies and to the press...
