The Starke County Commissioners want another vendor to evaluate their radio system and determine what needs to be fixed to make it operational county-wide. Members of the Koontz Lake Volunteer Fire Department are having issues communicating with their portable radios. The contractor the county hired to make necessary repairs, which he said would fix the problem, is now advising they need to spend $4,000 on another VHF antenna.
The county highway department and sheriff’s office are also experiencing dead spots with their radios. The commissioners agreed to invite two other vendors to examine both the 800 megahertz and VHF radio systems to determine what is wrong and what needs to be done to make both fully operational.
