A question for the future end users of the WISCOM system...
Many many different stories floating around about the radios allowed on the system. I have been told by a few agencies that their 1 or 2 year old XTL/XTS radios that was paid for by OJA grant money will not be allowed on the system.
The story is, OJA had many different grants out there for the purpose of interoperability and to put P25 equipment in the hands of the end users. One of the requirements was that the radios purchased with the grant money had to have VHF trunking either enabled or be flash upgradable to it.
But....
Somebody involved with WISCOM decided it'd be better to only allow radios on the system that can do the new phase 2 vocoder. Keep in mind, the repeaters, controllers and etc involved with the infrastructure, doesn't care if you use a phase 1 or phase 2 vocoder. The XTL/XTS radios are running the phase 1 vocoder.
I get asked quite a bit about if a sheriff's dept 2 year old XTL 5000 mobiles are ok on the WISCOM system, and nobody seems to have an answer.
Has anyone else heard this ?
Many many different stories floating around about the radios allowed on the system. I have been told by a few agencies that their 1 or 2 year old XTL/XTS radios that was paid for by OJA grant money will not be allowed on the system.
The story is, OJA had many different grants out there for the purpose of interoperability and to put P25 equipment in the hands of the end users. One of the requirements was that the radios purchased with the grant money had to have VHF trunking either enabled or be flash upgradable to it.
But....
Somebody involved with WISCOM decided it'd be better to only allow radios on the system that can do the new phase 2 vocoder. Keep in mind, the repeaters, controllers and etc involved with the infrastructure, doesn't care if you use a phase 1 or phase 2 vocoder. The XTL/XTS radios are running the phase 1 vocoder.
I get asked quite a bit about if a sheriff's dept 2 year old XTL 5000 mobiles are ok on the WISCOM system, and nobody seems to have an answer.
Has anyone else heard this ?