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- In a historic moment for the PSERN Project, the team conducted its first successful test of the new PSERN radio system. This would not have been made possible without the efforts of staff, partners, and vendors.
- Our construction team has been working tirelessly on upgrading and constructing PSERN’s 57 regular radio sites with 79% of the radio sites under construction or fully constructed. Thank you to the site development team for their hard work!
- 95% of legal agreements needed for the 57 radio sites are either in the final approval phase or are fully complete. PSERN’s site development team worked overtime to negotiate and achieve this success. Sites which contain equipment that increase coverage inside buildings -- in building sites-- are currently in initial stages of negotiation.
- 106 agencies received a Service Level Agreement (SLA) from our team. At this time 34% of agencies have sent in a signed SLA. The deadline for all agencies to send in a completed SLA is February 28, 2020.
- Project staff continue to obtain information on buildings throughout King County that are equipped with in-building systems, referred to as DAS or BDA. If your organization knows of any DAS that have not been reported, please download and fill out our DAS questionnaire from our website, and send it to DAS-PSERN@kingcounty.gov.
- In recent months, the project has worked with our partner Motorola to develop a draft concept plan for transitioning all 642 DAS. The draft work has been shown to PSERN’s technical committee who has preliminarily approved the concept. The draft plan will break down countywide transition to PSERN for radio users and DAS by smaller geographic regions. This allows each sub region to better plan for this endeavor. The project will continue to refine this plan and bring it back to its governing body, the Joint Board, in Q1 2020.
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Please register your BDA/DAS today, and follow the registration and verification process listed below:
- Contact your Fire Marshal or Building Official to validate local code requirements for BDA/DAS.
- If using a broadband or Class “B” BDA/DAS, you must also register it with the Federal Communications Commission
- Contact your system manager to register your BDA - See the project's website for more information.
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- Dispatch Console Training for Master Trainers September 2019 -- Completed
- Technician System Training -- TBD
- Countywide SLA process to be completed – February 2020
- End-User Radio Training for Master Trainers from December 2020 - January 2021
- System Optimization and Coverage Testing to be completed by December 2020
- Deployment of radios to end users from April 2021 – February 2022
*Dates subject to change
If you would like to request more information about PSERN, or would like an in-person presentation for your organization, please contact us using the information below.
Please include your name, title, organization and your preferred contact method. A member of our team will return your inquiry within one business day.
- For general information about the PSERN Project, please visit our website, psern.org.
- For questions about the project or its staff, please call 206-47-PSERN / 206-477-7376, or email PSERN-INFO@kingcounty.gov.
- For questions about how your distributed antenna systems (DAS) and/or Bi-Directional amplifiers (BDAs) will be affected by PSERN, please email DAS-PSERN@kingcounty.gov.
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