[BC] Public Service Communications

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:33 PM 10/22/2005, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote: -------

>TV stations and the NAB have nothing to do with it,   The main  reason we
>don't have interoperatable public radio systems is local 
>police,  sheriff, state
>troopers and fire departments want their own channels and don;'t  want to
>share anything.  They all have their fifdoms and between them 
>and  APCO they get
>what they want.  And you and I pay for it.

Part of the 9/11 problem was that a FEMA-like contract went out to 
replace the analog NYPD radios with digital. There was a big stink 
when they discovered that they weren't effective in many buildings. 
They hadn't been properly tested. I have NYPD friends who were angry 
as hell to find their most important weapon wasn't reliable. I 
believe part of the problem was that the repeaters within the World 
Trade Center hadn't been updated. First responders never got the 
order to evacuate.

Rich