I'm putting together a new, ground-up UHF analog simulcast system for county-wide public safety. Will have 10 channels at 9 sites tied back to the dispatch center.
The conventional systems we currently have on VHF work well (voted input & simulcast transmit w/ console priority) however we have the usual wacker issues. MDC is required but post MDC is little help in locking out undesired users and pre MDC can get officers killed. I'd like trunking features: MIN/ESN to database for system access, stun and kill, GEO position and short message to radio display. However, I do NOT want or need trunking itself as it is contrary to our SOP and inherrently EVIL: our politicians will keep adding non public safety users to the point where the system and dispatchers are overloaded! Ideas other than pre MDC or trunked operation? Even a trunking system that is configured to not trunk and preserve channel by channel operation? TIA, Bill Powell
