Miami-Dade County, Fla., asked for a one-year waiver of the...
Miami-Dade County, Fla., asked for a one-year waiver of the FCC’s Jan. 1 narrowbanding deadline for Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue (MDFR) services. “To date the County has migrated the majority of its UHF operations to the 12.5 kHz technology” but…
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not its Fire Department “because of the complex nature of the County’s system and the technical challenges presented by narrowbanding,” the county said in seeking a waiver (http://xrl.us/bneuf6). The department is the largest in the Southeast, responsible for more than 2,000 square miles and 2.5 million residents. “All of the County’s police and aviation operations subject to the narrowbanding order have either already been transitioned from wideband to narrowband operations or have been acquired to operate in narrowband mode only. Moreover, the County managed operations for the Miami-Dade School Board has been similarly narrowbanded,” the county said. “The County has also already made significant progress on the narrowbanding of its MDFR facilities. All equipment purchased for the MDFR since 2004 is narrowband capable, including infrastructure, mobile and handheld radios. All 14 non-infrastructure frequencies have been narrowbanded with only those used for dispatch and tactical operations remaining at 25 kHz bandwidth."