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BCCD BAKER COUNTY CONSOLIDATED 9-1-1 DISPATCH CENTER RADIO SYSTEM COMPLETED November 2007 As a result of on-going work begun in 2004 and aided by nearly one half million dollars in Homeland Security “interoperability” grants the Baker County Public Safety Radio system, constructed, maintained, and managed by the Baker County Consolidated 9-1-1 Dispatch Center has been completed. With the addition of a repeater in Cuprum, Idaho we have now covered the last significant “dead spot” in the county---from Hells Canyon dam down river to Huntington, Oregon. The latest repeater site brings to ten the total number of repeater sites in our system, with twenty-two repeaters occupying those sites. Our entire system operates in narrowband mode and meets the FCC requirements for public safety radio systems which will go in effect in 2013. In addition to a build out of the repeater system itself, since 2004 all mobile and handheld radios used in the public safety radio system in this county have been replaced. While handheld radios can have a relatively short useable life span, the mobile radios and the repeater system itself should serve the county for 12-15 years. The dispatch center itself was upgraded with all new consoles and equipment in 2005. Software upgrades to the computers which control the system are made on a regular basis. The dispatch center and each repeater site receive a preventative maintenance check on an annual basis. With adjacent counties and our state and federal partners still in the process of narrow banding, reprogramming of Baker County radios to accommodate changes made by those entities is a frequent requirement. To provide that service in as cost effective a manner as possible we employ our own part-time technician for that purpose. The reliable mobile radio “coverage area” of the Baker County public safety radio system has improved from about 80% of the county (in 2003) to over 95% coverage today.

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