Jay County REMC and Radius deliver high quality electric service to shorten outage time when problems occur.

In keeping with this commitment to offer quality electric service to it’s members Jay County REMC, in conjunction with Wabash Valley Power Association, installed several G&W Viper reclosers and Schweitzer controls to better respond to line outages and problems as well as maintaining quality electric service. Radius PDR 221 radios communicates data from these devices from the far regions of the service area back to the Jay County REMC office in Portland, Indiana

Jay County REMC is located in Portland IN and was incorporated in 1936. Its founders were local people who worked to set poles, build distribution lines and bring electricity to rural customers who investor owned utilities were not interested in serving. As a cooperative organization, every customer is a member. The electricity provided by these early members was instrumental in helping farm life into the modern age. Today Jay County REMC serves more than 5,260 members in Jay and parts of Adams, Blackford, Delaware, Randolph and Wells counties in Indiana with nearly 1,154 miles of energized lines.

Radius were requested to provide their PDR 221 data radios for the monitoring of line activity within the Jay County REMC network due to many factors. The first of which was the reliability of the data transmitted and received for the PDR’s. This is due to some of the advanced functions on the radio. One such advancement is its Forward Error Corrections facility, which is built into all PDR data radios.