Avery Tower Work Complete

The removal of the Verizon antenna pod and the temporary placement of the COIRS antenna is complete. The temporary configuration will remain in place for the next 6 weeks while blasting and painting of the water tank takes place. Once the work is complete, the COIRS antennas will be removed, the pod placed back on the tank and the COIRS equipment returned to its normal configuration.

Avery Road Antenna Work

Starting at 08:00 today, the Avery Road tower site will go off line to allow removal of the antenna mounting pod owned by Verizon Wireless. This temporary removal is being done to accommodate the repainting of the water tower. Once the pod is removed, the COIRS antenna equipment will be mounted back on top of the tank on a
temporary lattice during the painting work. This temporary configuration will last approximately 6 weeks.
 
Users may notice diminished walkie coverage, especially in buildings, west of the Scioto River and south of Brand Road. Work updates will be posted here.

October 2010 Governing Board Meeting - Date Change

The October meeting of the COIRS Governing Board has been changed to Friday 10/22. The meeting will be held at Worthington Police Headquarters and begin at 9:30am.

Governing Board Meeting - Friday July 7th

The next meeting of the COIRS Governing Board is set for Friday July 7th at 9:30am. The meeting will beheld at the Worthington Police Headquarters at 6665 Worthington-Galena Rd. CLICK HERE to view a copy of the meeting agenda.

For more information, contact Jay Somerville at 614.410.4800 or jsomerville@dublin.oh.us

Governing Board Adopts New System Name

At the May Governing Board meeting, the system members adopted a new official name for the council of governments: the Central Ohio Interoperable Radio System (COIRS).

The members wanted an official name that represented the regional collaboration along with the primary mission of the system - interoperability. All COG business will be conducted under the new COIRS name effective immediately.

System Event - Connectivity

Today at approximately 10:56hrs, the Dub/Wor simulcast lost connectivity with the main controller in Delaware causing the system to go into SITE TRUNKING and the dispatch consoles to lose connection. In checking the system, technicians found there was a network interruption on the OARNet portion of the connection. OARNet network operations has been notified and is investigating the problem. The connection was restored at 11:09hrs. 

During the interruption, back up plans were implemented successfully. 

A full outage report will be provided as soon as it is available. 

**SYSTEM MAINTENANCE**

Tonight (03/17) between 23:00 and 05:00, XO Communications will be doing work on the T1 circuits that run between Dublin Justice and Avery Road. They report the circuits may go down for up to 5 mins at various times causing Wothington & Dublin consoles to lose connection and possibly putting the Dub/Wor side of the system into site trunking.

 

Please be sure your users are notified and back up plans are in place.

 

We did experience two short console outages last night when one of the T1 lines reset. XO will be checking that line as well as part of this maintenance.