RCS is beyond the 15 year planned life, and the RCS is not a JPA (it is a partnership of member agencies with San Diego County). The 1995 partnership agreement expires in 2016. A new agreement has been signed by those agencies who wish to jointly fund the replacement system, which is in the planning stages (ETA 2017-2018).zz0468 wrote:Isn't RCS nearing the end of it's planned 15 year life? I'm sure the JPA will endure, but just connecting the two systems together is a lot more complicated when you start drilling down into the details.cvrules90 wrote:OC has done it even including Santa Ana (the county seat). San Diego County, while it doesn't include San Diego City, built out the RCS for interoperability and everyday comms. Now what they should do is interconnect the San Diego TRS with the RCS somehow.
As far as connecting the two systems (RCS and SD City) together - there have been audio patch circuits in place, along with programming of 'the other guy's talkgroups' for years. Neither network has the channel resources available to allow free roaming between systems.
"Private Call" is a resource (channel) hog. Again, no one (City of SD, RCS or PSEC) have the available channel resources to allow it.cvrules90 wrote:Private call turned off? That is suprising. I guess the PSEC remains only a better version of the EDACS system unless converage can be extended somehow.