Arlington County Virginia https://www.arlnow.com/2015/09/01/arlingtons-police-radio-channels-are-down/
something fishy as the comments clearly point out lets think about this 1. TRS suck 2. no one ever practices backup procedures 3. they probably called everyone by cellphone or MDT to tell them what channel to switch to - lets hope the cellphones or MDTs never go down 4. If it was a bad Bi directional amplifier (BDA) - lets try to figure this out - a BDA takes a signal from outside and pushes it into a bld - and takes a signal from inside a bld and pushes it outside a bld - if the signals get pushed at too high of a level into a bld, they can leak back outside - and be pushed back inside the bld - creating a perpetual loop - which probably creates a nice donut hole in your radio coverage area It would seem that the problem would exist in just one area of the county - versus - on just 1 or 2 channels (or talkgroups) Right? 5. Probably would have been better to switch to conventional channels located within Arlington - which would provide better coverage for Arlington units - maybe they do not have any conventional backup channels - tsk tsk tsk - didnt Katrina teach anybody nothing? keywords - resilience - lame - backup capacity - Plan B - communications are vital - seconds are a matter of life and death - meaningless words - radio system design - failure of public safety communications system - radio system fail - make radio not go now -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
