Washington Co TRS

[izz]

The good news is the county will begin accepting bids from manufacturers in April. The bad news is it may be another two years before the project is completed.

 

[SCPD]

That sucks I was wishing it would be soon.

 

[izz]

I was a little disappointed too when I was told it may be another two years.


The County Supervisor that I talked too, said the West Bend newspaper has run five or six news articles on the trunking system in the last year or so. If someone in West Bend area would please post the links to those articles it would be very much appreciated.

 

[otrebla]

The articles on the TRS are in the Ozaukee - Washington Daily News archives, the only problem is they charge a fee to view each article.

 

[izz]

From the Radio Communications Systems Committee Minutes

Revised Overall Cost Estimate

The original budget was $13,300,000 based on 650 subscriber units as well as the infrastructure. The updated subscriber units figure is 1,532, bringing the total budget to $14,286,700. A RCC Consultant used a budget figure of $14,600,000.

 

[triryche]

That sucks I was wishing it would be soon.

You should probably thinking the opposite. While this may be a new scanning trip for us in the hobby, the down side is the law enforcement will probably be securenet encryption unless they veer from the recent "norm". This proposed system is to be digital.

 

[SCPD]

You should probably thinking the opposite.... the down side is the law enforcement will probably be securenet encryption unless they veer from the recent "norm". This proposed system is to be digital.

If you look at the "norm" lately the digital systems that use encryption are conventional. Those channels are that agencies only secure channel, ie digital encryption not used all the time only when need they will switch to digital encryption.
They, Washington county, probably will have encrypted talk groups to use when need but not full time encryption. I'm sure you know, Washington county use encryption as need already.
I just want a P25 system so my 996 can be used on a digital system again. Digital sounds a hell of a lot better than analog.