When I saw this I had to post.
When I saw this I simply couldn't contain my laughing out loud. I guess this is what greedy tax pay taking leo's get when they use grant's for things that are of zero need for the greater good. Also this is what happens when you give leo's money for radio equipment, whom have zero knowledge on such equipment and its function. I find this short clip highly laughable to say the least. It almost feels like retribution for all those years of the government just buying bigger and more expensive radio's so we couldn't keep up. It would seem the leo's finally got a dose of their own medicine. I guess greed is one of the seven deadly sins after all, and it shall come back to bite you if your greedy. Karma has a funny way of rearing its ugly horns.
For all that hate digital encryption, and the like you'll surely love this short clip. Also to GTO from Indiana who coined the phrase, "Oh yes digital is SO much better." I hope you all enjoy what you’re about to see, grab a seat lady's and gent's, grab a cold one, and some popcorn because if you’re like me your going to play this a thousand times until your done laughing your face off.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKbN5SApI8]YouTube - San Mateo County Sheriff's Digital Trunked Radio System Problems[/ame]
Alpine- :cool::D;)
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Heh... pwnt. This is the same story everywhere they try it. There are several digital systems around me that I monitor, and they all sound horrible. There is not only a lag time between when you press the PTT switch and you can talk, but a lag time between when you speak and when your speech is heard. The system takes your voice, digitalises it, transmits it, then it must be decoded by the receiving radios. Consequently. What you say is heard over a full second after you say it... assuming it is heard at all. Unlike analogue signals, which can get weak, digital signals don't get weak. They just disappear completely! I'd rather have a weak signal than NO signal!
The FCC, the frequency coordination organisations, APCO, and many law enforcement associations (Sheriff's Assoc of Texas, etc...) are pushing these things, leading cities to believe they are solid and sound technology when they aren't. As a result, we're seeing more of this expensive pwn4g3 every year. It's retarded!
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I've been reading about Milwaukee going to OpenSky and how it is a huge failure, just like every other place it has been tried. Milwaukee choose to ignore that fact and waste tax payers' money anyway.
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protias
I've been reading about Milwaukee going to OpenSky and how it is a huge failure, just like every other place it has been tried. Milwaukee choose to ignore that fact and waste tax payers' money anyway.
Yeah they where just talking about this yesterday on the Radio. It's doesn't work and i believe they said its taken 5 years longer then expected and they are now spending 20% more they the orginal bid to put the system in so I think it was like 5 million and now its more like 20 million and there still haveing problems.:mad: Tax payers money wasted and still being wasted.
Just go back to Analog so I don't have to get a new radio:cool:
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We had some of these same issues (still do but a little less now compared to a couple of yrs ago) concerning our LMR's (land mobile radios) with the digital signals and the serious limitations concerning the use of them inside of bldgs. Outside the radios work like a champ but once you get them inside a bldg with any wall thickness they are almost worthless. That loud tone you hear in the you tube video is the most annoying, because when you key the mike and try to talk you hear that long solid tone and you can't transmit. I like the older radios better, we had less issues with them.
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Akosikojak
We had some of these same issues (still do but a little less now compared to a couple of yrs ago) concerning our LMR's (land mobile radios) with the digital signals and the serious limitations concerning the use of them inside of bldgs. Outside the radios work like a champ but once you get them inside a bldg with any wall thickness they are almost worthless. That loud tone you hear in the you tube video is the most annoying, because when you key the mike and try to talk you hear that long solid tone and you can't transmit. I like the older radios better, we had less issues with them.
My county uses digital and I love it for the most part. I can hear them better in the county west of the one I'm in than I can of the agencies inside that county. There is just one slight problem, no reception in the basement.
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Hmmm... it seems like the only people who really think it is a good idea, are the people who don't have to go out there and put their lives on the line with the said technology.
Like the freaky looking plastic pen-pusher 3/4's of the way through... Prime example. Some nerd who tries to polish up the digital-turd to keep his job most likely. :rolleyes:
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Stealth Stalker
...Unlike analogue signals, which can get weak, digital signals don't get weak. They just disappear completely! I'd rather have a weak signal than NO signal!...
Bingo!!! AFAIK this is still one of the biggest complaints of the DTV-transfer that took place recently... nearly identical issues.
Weak Signal > No signal.
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Not everything digital is good.
Look how much digital cable t.v freezes up.
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voyager7
Not everything digital is good.
Look how much digital cable t.v freezes up.
Yeah, I live maybe ten to fifteen miles, as the crow flies, from the TV transmission towers around here. They're 2000 feet tall, and easily seen on the horizon from my house. Yet I still constantly lose my DTV signal. Never even had weak reception before they went digital, much less NO reception.
If you receive a system better now than you did before they went digital, it's not because it's digital. It's because they either moved the repeater sites, or upped the power.