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10-19-2012, 8:16 AM
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Radio Tests - Boston MA area ????
Anyone ever heard Brockton FD or Worcester FD conducting regular radio tests?
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10-19-2012, 6:30 PM
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Brockton Fire Radio Test
Brockton Fire conducts a daily radio test with Plymouth County Control every day at about 9:30 am on the County inter-agency freq of 483.4750 PL 141.3. All Fire Departments in county check in as well as radi ochecks with Barnstable County, Bristol County, State Fire Control, and Mass Emergency Agency.
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10-20-2012, 4:01 AM
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brockton fire
Brockton Fire does a radio check on all channels every Friday, but it is done at different times each week
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10-20-2012, 12:33 PM
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bobbuff - would that be Friday mornings usually - maybe between 7 AM and 10 AM? (just guessing)
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10-20-2012, 3:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by msgtjdolan
Brockton Fire conducts a daily radio test with Plymouth County Control every day at about 9:30 am on the County inter-agency freq of 483.4750 PL 141.3. All Fire Departments in county check in as well as radi ochecks with Barnstable County, Bristol County, State Fire Control, and Mass Emergency Agency.
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Plymouth County Control conducts the daily test, not Brockton. And the frequency is not an inter agency frequency it is a fire ground frequency for the county.
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10-21-2012, 7:47 AM
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zerg901 - it could be anytime on a Friday, the Signal Division will call us in Fire Alarm and see if things are "quiet" enough to do the test. We test on Channel 1, 2, 4, then we do a "repeater knockdown" check and finish it up with the "Ememrgency Alert Tone" test , a wobble tone, and thats about it and last all of 3 minutes. Also on Friday's we switch antenna locations from Cary Hill, where Engine 7 runs out of, to the Station 1 antenna just to make sure all systems are working properly. Can never have enough back up plans !!!
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10-21-2012, 7:53 AM
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n1bhh - The frequency used in the daily radio test from Plymouth County Control is the "Community to Community" Channel, just as Metro Countrol, Norfolk County Control and many others use a set frequency as a control channel, for the lack of a better word, and is not used as a fire ground channel. Plymouth County channel 1,2,3,5 and 6 are used as fire ground channels.
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10-21-2012, 4:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbuff
n1bhh - The frequency used in the daily radio test from Plymouth County Control is the "Community to Community" Channel, just as Metro Countrol, Norfolk County Control and many others use a set frequency as a control channel, for the lack of a better word, and is not used as a fire ground channel. Plymouth County channel 1,2,3,5 and 6 are used as fire ground channels.
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All channels in the Plymouth County Mutual Aid are fire ground channels. Channel 4 is the primary calling frequency. I know the system well, my father and a dozen other chiefs started the basis for a mutual aid system (50 years ago) that is now in wide spread use.
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10-22-2012, 8:24 PM
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bobbuff - thanks for the info. Since there is a new Brockton FD feed at Radio Reference it will be easy to listen in on Friday. Thanks again - Peter Sz
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10-27-2012, 9:47 AM
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I did catch Brockton S3 doing radio tests yesterday. They "knocked down" (turned off) and "restored" the Ch 1 repeater.
Anyone ever catch Fall River FD or New Bedford FD doing a full test of ALL of their portable radios? How about Plymouth FD?
Anyone listen to Worcester FD fulltime? Do they ever test?
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11-10-2012, 7:49 AM
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No one listens to Plymouth FD, Fall River FD, New Bedford FD, or Worcester FD?
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11-10-2012, 10:31 AM
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Long roll call radio tests are a great opportunity to test the "nuisance delete" button so you don't miss a real incident.
Gordon
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11-30-2012, 6:10 PM
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radio test
Fall River does a radio test every morning about 08:30 with all apparatus, I have never heard New Bedford or Plymouth do tests, and I don't get Worcester at my house.
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11-30-2012, 11:08 PM
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LOL You dont get Worcester but ya get NYFD
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