Oakland County Open Sky

[mikey60]

Since Oakland County awarded the contract to MA/COM:

1. The City of Detroit went from UHF/VHF and an old Type I system to a complete 30 channel P25 subsystem of the MPSCS. (This system wasn't even in the planning stage when the Oakland County Contract was signed).

2. Genesee County completed the buildout of their P25 MPSCS subsystem. (It had been announced before the contract was signed, but had not yet moved to the construction phase).

3. Macomb County has completed the building of their P25 MPSCS subsystem. This was in the planning stages when the OC contract was signed IIRC. Departments in Macomb County are in the process of switching to this system.

4. St. Clair County has completed their P25 MPSCS Subsystem and will start the migration to the system in the coming months...

5. Wayne county will be switching to the MPSCS soon. There's some activity out there now from them.

6. Washtenaw county is in the process of switching to the MPSCS.

Note that every county that surrounds Oakland county either is on the MPSCS, or is in the process of switching to the MPSCS. As is typical, Oakland county is working to become an island to themselves.

Mike

 

[gpp10x]

And if I'm not mistaken don't forget the city of Warren that kept their 800 freqs and converted their system from analog to digital. This issue seems like the type of thing the tv stations would love to stir the pot on but I guess its more fun to pick on Kwame.

 

[fireresq2825]

Since Oakland County awarded the contract to MA/COM:

1. The City of Detroit went from UHF/VHF and an old Type I system to a complete 30 channel P25 subsystem of the MPSCS. (This system wasn't even in the planning stage when the Oakland County Contract was signed).

2. Genesee County completed the buildout of their P25 MPSCS subsystem. (It had been announced before the contract was signed, but had not yet moved to the construction phase).

3. Macomb County has completed the building of their P25 MPSCS subsystem. This was in the planning stages when the OC contract was signed IIRC. Departments in Macomb County are in the process of switching to this system.

4. St. Clair County has completed their P25 MPSCS Subsystem and will start the migration to the system in the coming months...

5. Wayne county will be switching to the MPSCS soon. There's some activity out there now from them.

6. Washtenaw county is in the process of switching to the MPSCS.

Note that every county that surrounds Oakland county either is on the MPSCS, or is in the process of switching to the MPSCS. As is typical, Oakland county is working to become an island to themselves.

Mike

Don't forget that Monroe County was the FIRST simulcast subsystem up and running on the MPSCS, even though they started planning after Genesee. So that makes 5 complete simulcast subsystems all ready built out in the time span that they have been messing around in one county with what I like to refer to as "Broken Sky".

 

[Mark01]

So ... how many of you folks actually know whats going on in Oakland County and how many of you are just spreading meaningless dribble and innuendo from other sites or Motherola/MPSCS patsies?

You can get an overview of the Oakland Cty M/A Com "Radio Project Status/Issues " straight from the horses mouth i.e Oakland County government at this link http://www.oakgov.com/clemis/financials/
They publish online pdf docs with the financial and current status of the project .

Of particular interest is the problems with the dispatch consoles being installed at the (public safety answering points)PSAP's and the latest potential Nextel interference.At the rate this project is going and if it takes two more years it will be in the timeframe it took to rollout the whole state of Michigan statewide MPSCS 181 tower system wich took 7 years... start to finish.

 

[ffexpCP]

Did you hear the one about this new radio system that this one county in MI is going to? If the MDC in the car is sending data, the radios won't hear squat.

And who needs a dispatch console? Just have a bunch of portabiles chillin on the desk. I guess that would only work if there was good enough in-building coverage. Honestly, I haven't heard what this system is suposed to have in the way of coverage.

Methinks somone has some re-engineering to do.

 

[bigbluemsp]

I wonder how much progress MA/COM has made on anything cause I hear the state of New York, and Colorado still aren't 100% up and running nor near satisfiyed with the crap they got from MA/COM.

MORE LIKE MA/CON lol


I liked it when the feds forced the splic of MA/COM from Tyco becuase they were a monopoly.