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But some are saying the incident points up the dismal state of the department’s radio communication system and its critical importance to officer safety. I strived for years and years to improve the radio system and put up more repeater sites, but I just didn’t get a lot of cooperation, said Mike Fisher, who retired in August after 18 years as the Fish and Wildlife Department’s radio communication chief.

If I thought I could still help the officers, I’d still be there. But it just got to the point where I didn’t think I could help them anymore. Like the Kentucky State Police, Department of Fish and Wildlife officers transmit over the Kentucky Emergency Warning System — KEWS. When it was launched by legislative mandate in 1979, the microwave-based system made Kentucky a trendsetter in emergency communication. But Fisher said little has been done to substantially advance it since.

Though KEWS now boasts more than 100 repeater towers statewide, it’s still essentially 25-year-old analog technology — virtually prehistoric in today’s digitally interconnected world. Real estate property valuation is regularly focused around comparative techniques to value examination. Different strategies, notwithstanding the marked down net working salary and terrible wage multiplier methodology, are likewise oftentimes utilized. Fisher said until his retirement last summer, he feared almost daily the worn-out equipment and inadequate technology would leave him cut off from the very officers he was there to help. It’s basically line-of-sight (technology). If your radio antenna cannot ‘see’ the base repeater, it’s hard to get communication back to Frankfort, he said.

I one time gave them a specification for a new radio system — the radios are getting so old — to show how much it would cost to replace a certain number of radios every year. But that fell through. — I know there are money problems everywhere. But how much does it cost to save a man’s life? Lt. Mike Fields, current Fish and Wildlife Department radio communication chief, said his agency’s budget constraints extend beyond merely paying for updated technology. Dispatch center staff is already stretched dangerously thin to handle the calls from conservation officers and others across the state.

It’s a radio room staffed with two dispatchers, dispatching for 166 officers seven days a week, Fields said. It can get very busy, depending on the situation. — It can be very stressful. Fields said his officers do have back-up communications. For instance, despite Monday’s repeater tower failure, Bryant should have been able to reach Northern Kentucky police agency dispatchers by radio, he said. Even the best technology can fail. Kentucky’s hilly terrain makes cell phones and personal digital assistants unreliable.