SAFE-T and the Rebanding project.

[hcsd35-32]

I read this in another forum:

All Public Safety systems using freqs ABOVE 860 MHz must move DOWN below 860 MHz. In other words, if your local TRS is say loaded with 866 MHz freqs,... they have to go down below 860. Kinda strange considering that the 866 band was originally set aside for just PS...... But Nextel has the CASH! Anyway... Nextel is abandoning everything below 860, thus opening that all up again.

Does that mean that all these new radios we're getting for Project Hoosier SAFE-T are going to have to be reprogrammed? As new as the system is I would think that they would have thought of this and put the freq's below 860. Can someone provide some insight?

 

[n4voxgill]

The mobiles and portables will have to be re-programed with the new control channels allocated for the system. Also, the base system must be re-programed as well. Since the frequencies have not been licensed yet, they could not be known so could not be pre-programed.

The FCC is making Nextel pay for re-programing. I know someone will reply that they are not going to pay all the costs. No one knows for sure, so why go there.

Most systems must periodically reprogram the mobiles and portables to include new talkgroups that have created, or to change existing talkgroups. Systems managers will have a lot of advance notice of when they will have to reprogram. Many will hold up on changes they were planning, and wait until Nextel pays the costs. So it's not all negative.

Of course Nextel has not yet agreed to this change and the expense. Many believe they will, but the cost to them has reached the point it may not be worth it.

OK gang, rip up Nextel.