Pierce County has applied for their 700mhz system licenses, and somehow thinks they're going to blanket the county thusly:
-Using the current Pierce Transit sites (6 of them at Purdy, Federal Way, Puyallup, White Center in King County, Graham Hill and Lakewood), plus one new site at Spar Pole Hill near Orting;
-A 3 site south simulcast, sites at Mineral Hill, Bald Hill and near Eatonville; and
-2 Intelirepeater sites, at 3 Sisters and Gold Mountain.
They of course maintain they will be retaining four VHF freqs for interoperability and rural communications...I sure hope so. Terrain being what it is around here, I can see coverage gaps that aren't pretty, and yet they claim these sites will give them 97% coverage.
Plan is to use multiband radios (APX series) to interop with the Tacoma/Lakewood/Puyallup 800 system, along with VHF holdouts.
I hope Pierce County voters are happy with this idea; they elected to pay for it.
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