I guess by now most of you have noticed the changes on Mecklenburg Dispatch.
I noticed all traffic is starting to be switched to county fire 156.165.
I asked a Paramedic Crew Chief what was going on an he told me the following:
1. Medic crews are no longer carrying Minitor V pagers. Each crew member carries an 800 Mhz radio while on duty. They have a new dispatch software that pages the crews 800 Mhz radios of a call and let's dispatch know the crew recieved the call and if the radio does not recieve the alert then it locks up the console and let dispatch know there is a problem.
2. Only the first responders are paged on 462.950 Med-9.
3. After dispatch all traffic for the county is being sent to county fire, to stop congestion and tying up Med-9
Thus leaving it open for dispatching only.
4. All county agencies first repsonder are firefighters and part of the fire departments.
5. Med-2 on 800 Mhz will still be used for calls within the City of Charlotte only.
6. Medic dispatch has started the process of simlucasting all county EMS calls across 462.950 and 156.165.
I expect in the future all first responders in Mecklenburg will be turning in their 462.950 Med-9 pagers and all will be done on county fire 156.165.
It makes since figure most firefighters are first responders, and their is no real need to carry two pagers when one will do for both purposes.
Mecklenburg Firefighters carry one VHF pager for fire and one UHF pager for first responder
Just thought I would pass this tid bit of information along as to what I was told.
David
I noticed all traffic is starting to be switched to county fire 156.165.
I asked a Paramedic Crew Chief what was going on an he told me the following:
1. Medic crews are no longer carrying Minitor V pagers. Each crew member carries an 800 Mhz radio while on duty. They have a new dispatch software that pages the crews 800 Mhz radios of a call and let's dispatch know the crew recieved the call and if the radio does not recieve the alert then it locks up the console and let dispatch know there is a problem.
2. Only the first responders are paged on 462.950 Med-9.
3. After dispatch all traffic for the county is being sent to county fire, to stop congestion and tying up Med-9
Thus leaving it open for dispatching only.
4. All county agencies first repsonder are firefighters and part of the fire departments.
5. Med-2 on 800 Mhz will still be used for calls within the City of Charlotte only.
6. Medic dispatch has started the process of simlucasting all county EMS calls across 462.950 and 156.165.
I expect in the future all first responders in Mecklenburg will be turning in their 462.950 Med-9 pagers and all will be done on county fire 156.165.
It makes since figure most firefighters are first responders, and their is no real need to carry two pagers when one will do for both purposes.
Mecklenburg Firefighters carry one VHF pager for fire and one UHF pager for first responder
Just thought I would pass this tid bit of information along as to what I was told.
David
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