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Bonner County leaders urge phased plan for $1.9 million microwave backhaul to harden emergency radio links
Summary
County officials discussed a proposed $1.9 million project to add microwave backhaul links and microwave dishes at six repeater sites to provide redundancy for 911 radio communications, and asked staff to return with a phased buildout plan and funding options.
Bonner County officials spent a significant portion of a budget workshop discussing a proposed microwave communications project intended to add redundancy to the county’s emergency radio system and keep fire, ambulance and law-enforcement radios tied to dispatch when outages occur. The sheriff’s office described a $1,900,000 anticipated cost to install microwave backhaul links and equipment at multiple repeater sites, and the board directed staff to return with a phased implementation plan and funding options.
Officials said the project would install microwave dishes on repeater sites and backhaul links that connect repeaters to dispatch. The sheriff’s office representative said, “We’re going to do set up, communications through microwave system to our sites … These are microwave backhaul links. When communications is interrupted, we cannot talk. And this…
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