On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:07:56 +0000, chas wrote:

As another police airwave user I have to say it is an utterly ****e system.

Officer safety IS being compromised.

Airwave drops out completely on a regular basis in the control rooms, the
'hang time' to transmit is as long as EIGHT seconds sometimes - utterly
useless during a pursuit or something. The BUSY message is almost
permantently on and it is just NOT designed for busy areas on a Fri/Sat
night with lots of officers using it.

Do they expect us to f**ing run down the street texting on the damn thing to
get updates?

I'm not being rude, but I find difficult to believe that people are
seriously considering using texting as a communications system. It's all
right if you want to send HOW U DUDE but it's not really useful beyond
that.

IMO in the mobile world it's more of an expensive gimmick than anything
else.

Are you Cops just being given cheap modified mobile phones ?