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A new licensed was issued by the FCC for Ohio MARCS. This license covers the existing Middle Point,OH (Van Wert Co) site as well as the new site in Florida/Holgate, OH (Henry Co). Callsign: WQLP294 Site: Middle Point, OH (Van Wert)
Site: Florida / Holgate, OH (Henry)
If you happen to monitoring the Florida/Holgate site and discover it to be online, please obtain the zone, system ID, any control channels, site alias, etc. and submit this information to RadioReference. Site Name: Petersburg (GRANT CO) Frequencies
Site Name: Moorefield (HARDY CO) Frequencies
If you are in the vicinity of either site and can monitor with Pro96Com or Unitrunker, please submit your findings with regard to alternate CC, Neighbors, etc. to the Submit link on the lefthand side of the page on RadioReference. A new FCC license is pending for the Ohio MARCS trunked system. This license is for a 5-site simulcast with sites in Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lake Co. A link to the FCC application is here A Google Map of the sites can be found here This application lists sites in Cleveland, Warrensville Heights and Mayfield in Cuyahoga County, Gates Mills in Geauga County, and Wickliffe in Lake County. Frequencies for the proposed simulcast system are:
If you live near enough to the above sites, or if you travel in that area, you may want to be on the lookout for activity/progress with the buildout of this. Please report any findings in the following RadioReference thread: From the April 13th council minutes pulled from an article on the Carrollton Free Press Standard website: -ENTERED into an agreement with Ohio Office of Information Technology, Multi-Agency Radio Communications System (MARCS) program to provide six radios for the police department and one radio for the village fire department. These radios would allow police and fire to communicate with the Sheriff’s office. The Sheriff’s department is changing over to the MARCS system. The contract lists fees of $240 per month for police radios and a one-time $50 fee for fire department. However, Fowler explained Darryl Anderson, MARCS program manager told him these fees would be covered through grant monies. Anderson later learned these fees did not qualify to be paid by grant monies. Fowler is going to continue to work on getting these fees alleviated. Read the full article here: http://www.freepressstandard.com/News/03041609.htm LISBON — Columbiana County Sheriff Ray Stone will use some of his funding to obtain a $40,000 state grant to purchase equipment that will help his deputies communicate when on a call. Stone said he will use $13,333 as qualifying matching funds to obtain the $40,000 grant for small radio booster units that will increase the strength of walkie-talkies used by the deputies. The units will go into the trunk of each cruiser. Last summer, the sheriff’s office purchased the MARCS radio system for $191,154, with county commissioners borrowing the money and making the payments. MARCS — short for Multi-Agency Radio Communication System — was supposed to eliminate the problem of communication blackouts occurring between sheriff’s dispatchers and deputies when in areas of the county where radio reception is poor. “Even with MARCS there are still some weak spots in the system,” Stone said, which is why they applied for the grant to acquire the booster units about the same time they purchased MARCS. The $13,333 in matching funds to qualify for the grant will come from the sheriff’s communication fund. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/511467.html WHEELING – In Ohio Valley Medical Center’s emergency room, five radios hang on the wall to pick up transmissions from emergency vehicles. Noisy and at times confusing, the radios will soon be replaced by a touch screen computer system. The upgrade will be made possible by a $20,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security, OVMC Corporate Safety and Security Director Brad Simms told the hospital’s Board of Directors after their regular, closed-door meeting Friday afternoon. Read the full article here: http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/521275.html NEW CUMBERLAND — Over the next two weeks, Hancock County’s police, fire, and emergency crews will be testing upgraded radio equipment that should allow for greater coverage throughout the county. Tom Zielinsky, executive director of the Hancock County Office of Technology and Communications, said the equipment the county previously had, an analog system, was over 25 years and that he had heard complaints from the sheriff’s office and fire departments that were many dead spots in the county where the radios’ signal would cut out. When they began to replace the equipment, Zielinsky said it was their goal “to have as near 100 percent coverage in the county as possible.” Zielinsky said they have gone from seven towers to 10 to create an overlapping effect that should eliminate most of the dead spot problems. That includes using water tanks at Oakland, Rolling Acres, and Mountaineer as towers. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503360.html LISBON – The Columbiana County Commissioners approved a $193,154 lease deal to purchase a new radio system for the Sheriff’s Office which could save costs and increase safety for deputies who rely on the radio as their lifeline in the field. “Our radio system has been in dire need of replacement for some time,” Sheriff David Smith said Wednesday, adding it was last upgraded in 1973. He said the system needed immediate attention. Dispatchers have been losing contact with deputies in the field due to dead spots and one of the towers used as a repeater site in the western part of the county where he has an antenna is being dismantled by the owner. The commissioners approved a lease/purchase agreement with Dollar Leasing of Cleveland to purchase the equipment for the Multi-Agency Radio Communication System known as MARCS. As part of the five-year deal, the county will make an annual payment of $44,771 beginning July 2009 and then purchase the equipment at the end of the contract for $1. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503288.html WHEELING -Work to install two 300-foot towers is under way as part of Ohio County’s new, $3.6 million 450-megahertz radio system. JG Contracting of Pittsburgh won the bid for the project to install the towers: one at The Highlands and another in West Liberty. The $121,120 installation is part of an overall project to improve first responders’ ability to communicate with each other. Read the full article here: http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/507736.html |
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