Site Outages Week of June 28th

Over the next week several sites will be out of service briefly due to rebanding or site modifications that need to occur. Below is the schedule for outages as they will occur. During these outages you should have adequate mobile coverage but portable coverage will be affected so please use the VTAC accordingly if you have one within your fleet. We are confident that the outage will more than likely go un-noticed.

Reeser's Summit
June 28 @ 0300 hrs site will be down 30 minutes to an hour at most. This site outage is a result of the microwave link from CTC to Reeser's being upgraded therefore causing the site to be down which coincidentally is unrelated to the rebanding project.

CTC (commonwealth technologies center - located in Harrisburg above Farm show complex)
June 29 @ 0830 hrs site will be down for approx 30 minutes or less.

Lambs Gap
June 30 @ 0500 hrs site will be down for approx 30 minutes or less.

Shippensburg University
July 1 @ 0930 hrs site will be down for approx 30 minutes or less.

Pine Grove State Park
July 2 @ 0930 hrs site will be down for approx 30 minutes or less.

We will notify you if any major changes to the schedule occur!

***As always if there is an incident at the time we need to take the site down we will postpone the outage until such time it is safe to do so***

Portable Case Problems

A quality issue regarding some of the portable cases issued during the recent equipment has been brought to the attention of DPS. Users are experiencing issues with rivets coming off and the paint rubbing off.



DPS has brought this issue to the attention of the Harris Corporation and they are actively working to resolve the issue. At this time we are asking that you contact Megan with any issues you are experiencing with the cases so that we may continue to report the issues to Harris.



Megan Silverstrim

mmoriarty@ccpa.net

717-240-6400

Emergency Button Testing

The Emergency Button Focus Group formed several months ago to explore the possibility of reactivating the emergency button for Fire, met last night at Company 30, Station 1. The focus group along with representatives from several fire companies from throughout the county, conducted testing and held open discussion regarding potential options for reactivating the emergency button. This group plans on meeting and conducting testing on future occasions, so that the best possible solution can be reached.

May PTT Report

Statistics on Push-to-talk (PTT): The number of times a radio was used to make a voice transmission. The following stats are discipline specific county wide.
Law Enforcement – 121,542
Fire – 43,987
EMS – 47,284
Agencies – 85,105
DPS – 6,476
County Agencies – 63,258
Municipal – 8,843
Total County Wide – 376.495

PTT's for the Month of MayMonthly PTT’s from the main dispatch (9-1-1 Center) talk groups:
Fire – 23,378
EMS – 40,006
Police West – 23,098
Police East – 73,258
Police Data – 20,979

Site Utilization (Percentage of site use)...
Forward = Calls to the sites from the radios
Reverse = Calls from the sites to the radios
Lambs Gap- 10.03% Forward 3.62% Reverse
Reesers Summit- 11.47% Forward 4.09% Reverse
EOC- 8.86% Forward 2.34% Reverse
Courthouse- 10.24% Forward .83% Reverse
Commonwealth Technology Center- 8.87% Forward .39% Reverse
3 Square Hollow- 7.48% Forward .43% Reverse
Ship Cell- 8.82% Forward .50% Reverse
South Mountain- 7.37% Forward .43% Reverse
Waggoners Gap- 7.49% Forward .39% Reverse
Rose Garden- 7.11% Forward .25% Reverse
Boiling Springs- 7.18% Forward .23% Reverse
Shippensburg- 5.32% Forward .22% Reverse
Dickinson Twp- 6.91% Forward .15% Reverse
Holy Spirit- 7.14% Forward .13% Reverse
Kings Gap- 4.61% Forward .07% Reverse
Pine Grove- 3.68% Forward .03% Reverse

*There were no queued calls this month.

As of this report we have 2,359 radios on the system in Cumberland County and 399 Talk Groups.
Control Stations: 20
Mobiles: 664
Portables: 1675

June 18th Deadline

Cumberland County DPS has set JUNE 18th as the final date to report any items that were missing the day of your exchange that you would would like to exchange or have added to your discrepancy list. Any items reported after this date will not be covered under the FCC Rebanding project and replacement of those items will be your agencies financial obligation.

Cumberland County Has Gone Green...

At this time all county fire companes, EMS companies and police departments have recieved the P7200 series portables!

April PTT Report

Statistics on Push-to-talk (PTT): The number of times a radio was used to make a voice transmission. The following stats are discipline specific county wide.
Law Enforcement - 111,738
Fire - 41,916
EMS - 43,412
Agencies - 78,056
DPS - 4,300
County Agencies - 61,257
Municipal - 6,835
Total County Wide - 347,517 PTT's

Monthly PTT’s from the main dispatch (9-1-1 Center) talk groups:
Fire - 24,021
EMS - 36,741
Police West - 22,154
Police East - 65,873
Police Data - 19,935

Site Utilization (Percentage of site use)...
Forward = Calls to the sites from the radios
Reverse = Calls from the sites to the radios

Lambs Gap- 9.75% Forward 6.48% Reverse
Reesers Summit- 11.03% Forward 6.48% Reverse
EOC- 8.63% Forward 2.23% Reverse
Courthouse- 10.06% Forward .89% Reverse
Commonwealth Technology Center- 8.65% Forward .42% Reverse
3 Square Hollow- 7.38% Forward .47% Reverse
Ship Cell- 8.84% Forward .55% Reverse
South Mountain- 7.27% Forward .43% Reverse
Waggoners Gap- 7.06% Forward .38% Reverse
Rose Garden- 6.81% Forward .24% Reverse
Boiling Springs- 7.00% Forward .2% Reverse
Shippensburg- 5.93% Forward .27% Reverse
Dickinson Twp- 6.79% Forward .17% Reverse
Holy Spirit- 6.84% Forward .13% Reverse
Kings Gap- 5.93% Forward .14% Reverse
Pine Grove- 3.54% Forward .01% Reverse


As of this report we have 2,359 radios on the system in Cumberland County and 399 Talk Groups.

Control Stations: 20
Mobiles: 664
Portables: 1675