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Management Agency
(EMA) and Fayette County 911
Telephone: (724) 430-1277
The roll-out of the new radio system is progressing well. Field testing is to begin Wednesday July 16th and we expect the new system to be operational by late August, early September.
The new system will be working in conjunction with the present system until December 31 2014.
Fayette County will be migrating departments over to the new system gradually and you will be notified of the cutover individually by discipline and departments. Our migration plans include pre-programming all equipment able to operate on the new radio system. Various programming events will be scheduled throughout the county and your department notified when Fayette County will need your radios for programming.
After December 31 it is our plan to have the old radio system turned off for a number of reasons.
Frequency usage and maintenance costs are the major concern. Due to limitations of obtaining new frequencies for the new radio system, most of our radio frequencies must be reused to bring the new system online. Our implementation plan has us shutting down a frequency on the old system to be able to bring that frequency up on the new system.
The county will be providing a number of training programs that we will begin scheduling as soon as the system becomes operational. It is our hope that agencies that work together attend a training session together so that operational issues pertaining to those organizations and the radio system can be discussed.
Please understand that there will be growing pains as we move users onto the new system and may require us to work bugs out of the system to provide our final goal. Please remember that when Fayette County joins the new radio system that we are one of 5 counties (Indiana, Armstrong, Westmoreland, Somerset and Fayette) that are using this system.
The training sessions will provide information regarding interoperability and operations with the ‘neighbors’.
Please remember that even after migration to the new system, your existing analog portable radios can still be used operationally on a talk around channel for on scene communications. At some point, our agency will be out to update the frequency of this talk around channel to make it compatible with the ICORRS standard talk around frequencies.
Our agency will be in frequent touch with your department. If you have not been getting updates, please contact our office to verify that we have current and accurate contact information for your department. Please understand that some departments have chosen not to update us as officers change and we send information to people that are no longer with the organization.
