Re: [californiadisasters] This Being The City of Oakland Hills Firestorm

The problem was they went with the defunct Open Sky radio system. It failed miserably in quite a few installations on the East Coast (Upstate New York in the beginning of a state wide roll out of the system; State of Pennsylvania in what was MA/COM's, now Harris, home market). It just never worked right out of the box and could not scale up to expectations.

73,

kevin

kc6pob

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From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: CaliforniaDisasters <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:50 AM
Subject: [californiadisasters] This Being The City of Oakland Hills Firestorm

 

City Needs More Money to Fix Radio System

June 12, 2013 at 4:42 pm

Oakland (Calif.) officials are asking for $3 million in upgrades for its police-fire communications system, which has been plagued with problems ever since it was first turned on in August 2011. In one case, the P25 trunked radio system failed during a city visit by President Obama, jeopardizing coordination of police officers. The city hired a consultant last year to analyze the radio system and find the source of the problems. The consultant claimed that several AT&T cellular towers in the city were interfering with the Harris Corp. 800 MHz radio system, creating dead zones. Several AT&T towers were turned off or re-tuned, but overall system problems continued. Now city officials say that support systems for the radio network are 15 years old and are degrading system performance. They propose replacing power supplies, generators and fans, and making $1.6 million of comm center upgrades. In a letter to the city's administrator, they also ask that the city's usual competitive bidding process be waived to allow direct purchases. In the meantime, the city's Information Technology department is investigating if the city should join a new regional, two-county, 700 MHz trunked radio network. Download (pdf) the funding report here, and the June 2012 consultant's report here.

Source: http://www.911dispatch.com/2013/06/12/city-needs-more-money-to-fix-radio-system/

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