Testing Resumes
If you have been monitoring the new Orange County P25 phase II system during the past three weeks you've hear nothing. Of course, the county was involved fighting several wind driven brush fires, the biggest and most destructive being the Canyon 2 Fire. Even though I was using 5 scanners to monitor all the fire traffic, I left one to monitor TDMA and of course it was silent for the whole three weeks. During some periods even the control channel was turned off. It would have been nice if they left at lest one TG patched to new system. But when you are handling the enormous amount of traffic that the fires created, you don't have time to play with the new stuff. Today the Santa Ana winds have subsided, although it is still very hot, and intermittent test traffic has resumed on the new system.