Caleb Bailey

Document Type

Student Paper

Publication Date

Fall 2008

Abstract

The role of emergency communications is evolving, coinciding and paralleling the rapid advancements in technology. The intent of this study is to analyze the advancements being made in the switch to digital transmissions and to highlight the increasingly advancing means of data transfer within, but not limited to, the confines of rescue and emergency services. Therefore the transition from the former 4ooMHZ to the 8ooMHZ radio systems will be the focus of this study, and will prove how technology can assist in adaptation and transformation.

Rockingham County, Virginia is implementing the 8ooMHZ radio system effective November 19, 2008. This will greatly increase their communications within the county and beyond by giving them the capabilities to clearly communicate in previously dead areas and allowing them to transmit prudent information in a more reliable and reasonable manner. By upgrading to this system the transition to digital operations has begun for the Shenandoah Valley and the surrounding areas. By spearheading this movement the county of Rockingham will have the expense of learning at the costs of mistakes; however, they will also have the prevailing upper-hand in the fact that they will have implemented and used this system for longer than any of the other agencies in the surrounding area.

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