PARADISE BAY — Kitsap County is planning to build a 199-foot communications tower on Ludlow Ridge, and a Jefferson County official hopes the county’s police and fire departments can use it, too.
JeffCom 9-1-1 Director Tracy Stringer is hopeful that a deal can be reached with Kitsap County CENCOM to use the tower.
Jefferson County could place a repeater on the site.
A repeater is a device that takes weak radio signals, like that from a police patrol car, and amplifies them.
The effect could be improved radio communication for emergency responders in the area.
“It would be great for us,” Stringer said Tuesday.
Kitsap County is constructing the tower to improve its own radio communications across Hood Canal in the Port Gamble and Hansville area.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition