[FedCom] CAP - Lots of Money How Many Radios & Real Mission Impact?

[Ken]

Hello Folks:

So how many portable & mobile/base P25 EF Johnson radios did CAP actually 
purchase?
See:  http://search.sys-con.com/read/284108.htm
Spent first increment $4.4 million
2nd increment $2.65 million
So that's a total of $7,005,000.00.
If we assume that each radio + accessories cost $3200.00  that's 
approximately 2189 radios
52 Wings, so on average each wing got 42 new P25 radios!!
Also it's unclear how many current radio equipment owned by members and CAP 
are
compliant with the new narrow band standards.

CAP's website 
http://level2.cap.gov/visitors/programs///operations/communications/about_cap_communications.cfm
indicates that they have approx 4519 VHF fixed, mobile, & portables in the 
network.  Do we assume that the total here is CAP owned plus CAP member 
owned radios or is it just CAP owned radios?

Ken


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Van Horn, N5FPW" <n5fpw at brmemc.net>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" 
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] CAP


> Dennis wrote:
> Besides, it wasn't me that placed their new VHF freqs in the public 
> domain. It came from another public source.