[Source: County of Riverside]


(Map of the current radio system. Courtesy of Freq Of Nature)

The County of Riverside currently operates an 800 MHz EDACS radio system that is lacking in coverage and functionality. The current system has a reduced level of interoperability.

The County of Riverside fire and law enforcement agencies currently utilizes approximately 20 communication sites to provide voice and data transmission capabilities to assigned personnel in the field. As currently configured, the system provides coverage to only about 60 percent of the County. The communication system now in use is at the end of its useful life, and is no longer adequate to meet the County coverage and capacity needs. Population growth within the County is necessitating the expansion of the coverage footprint. Additionally, due to increases in the County radio usage, additional traffic-carrying capacity is required to meet the needs of emergency services personnel to serve the public.

For more information see the County of Riverside Public Safety Enterprise Communication web site:
http://psec.co.riverside.ca.us posted by Tracy at 6/18/2008 1 comments

[Source: Ventura County Star]

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted to spend as much as $16.7 million on a new communications network that should eliminate most of the radio "dead spots" that emergency workers encounter.

With the current system, firefighters, paramedics and sheriff's deputies often can't reach central dispatchers with their hand-held radios. They must use the mobile radios in their cars and trucks instead, and that can sometimes slow down calls for assistance, said Jim Norris, the Ventura County Fire Department's information technology manager.

"This is where the rubber meets the road in the delivery of services," he told the board. "If a deputy is at the scene of a gang fight, he might not be able to go back to his car to his radio."

The new system will have "acceptable audio quality" in about 95 percent of the county's populated area, he said.

The system has been in the works for months now; Tuesday's series of votes by the Board of Supervisors authorized additional spending and contracts with vendors to implement it.

The communications network will include five new microwave towers, upgrades to 11 existing microwave towers, and a new Motorola handheld radio system. It should be completely in place in three to five years, Norris said after the board meeting.

The system will have far more bandwidth than the county will require for its radio voice data, Jackson said.

"As we move forward, we could put real-time video on there, so dispatch centers will be able to see when sheriff's and fire reach a site," he said.

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[Source: Los Angeles Fire Department]

Memorial services for fallen Los Angeles Firefighter Brent Lovrien will be held:

Friday, April 4, 2008 9:30 AM
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

All members of the community are warmly welcomed to attend this public tribute to Los Angeles Fire's fallen Brother.

Donations in memory of Firefighter Brent Lovrien and assistance for the Guzman family can be made by...

Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association
c/o Widows, Orphans and Disabled Firemen's Fund
P.O. Box 41903
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(800) 244-3439 ext. 14242
www.lafra.org

Fire Family Foundation
c/o Los Angeles Firemen's Credit Union
815 Colorado Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(800) 231-1626 ext. 2234 or email: dkuchler@lafirecu.org
www.firefamilyfoundation.org

Kindly reference "LAFD 95" on any donation submission.

For more information please visit the LAFD Media & Information Blog at lafd.blogspot.com posted by Tracy at 4/03/2008 0 comments

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[Source: Monitoring Times]



Monitoring Times has released a major update to their popular monitoring resource Monitoring NASA and Space Communications just in time for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. Visit the Monitoring Times Blog site listed below for more information and to download the monitoring guide.

NASA Monitoring Guide at Monitoring Times Blog posted by Tracy at 2/07/2008 0 comments