I would think long and hard about that one. PA has adopted OpenSky is it's digital statwide system. It was bid out in 1999, was supposed to be online in the spring of '01....and we're still waiting. I work in one of two counties (that I know of), that piggybacked the system. We too, are still waiting. The last I had heard, 2007 was when they were going to load users on the system. We'll see. To be fair, some of it is not M/A Com's fault. However, most of it, I think is.chipjumper wrote:Anyone using or know anyone using MA/COM OpenSky??? A county I used to work for is supposed to launch a OpenSky network spring '05. I'm going to try to influence mine to do the same.
Please note that the system has never been tested for a public safety application. It started for use of data only - and is very good at that. PA state police are using that now, but there's no idea when voice will happen.
For more, see this:
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ht=#161653
and this: http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ht=opensky
Gordon