How will Cumberland County’s new radio system interoperate with its neighboring counties?
This is more challenging than interoperating with the CoPA. A number of Cumberland County neighboring counties have announced new radio systems or are in the design phases. Those designs utilize bandwidths different than Cumberland and technological protocols proprietary to the system being deployed. Currently there is no single radio design that supports different bandwidths and trunking protocols. FCC licensing requirements limit the amount of radio system coverage the county may have available in the adjoining county. Therefore it is highly likely an out of county mutual aid provider will eventually drive out of range of their home county radio system if the mutual aid request is located somewhere other than close to its border. Cumberland will have limited roaming capability on the CoPA radio system to extend some talk groups beyond the Cumberland radio foot print. Services that provide regular out of county response may find the need to procure radios on that particular county sys
