Prison_Radio
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- Jan 25, 2015
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Hello All,
I recently took over the radio communications for a small correctional facility and to be honest have never worked with radios in any other capacity then as a user/installer.It kinda just fell in my lap. I have been making slow improvements in the radio system since. We have a Motorola Quantar Repeater in the VHF frequency band on our water tower and use HT750 portables, CDM1250 and 1550 mobile radios. I have the newest version of CPS and the programming cables for all of our radios in service and several that we no longer use.
We recently replaced the CM200 that was our dispatch center radio with a CDM 1550 and updated all of our radios to emit a PTT ID via MDC with aliasing at the dispatch radio. This was to allow us to see who was talking and to begin the process of enabling emergency signaling for fixed posts such as cell houses and medical staff.
I have been successful so far with help from the local Emergency Mgt, but have been unable to figure our something that I think would be beneficial and other facilities use during emergencies.
I would like to program a button on the CDM1550 to emit an emergency alert tone (Alert 2 or 3) that the dispatcher could activate after someone requests emergency help that would be like a Perk up or Alert that officers knew meant an emergency had been called and the dispatcher was going to give the information out.
Sounds odd, but our other facilities use it. We do not have the funds for a dispatch console or MIP5000 that would obviously be able to do this.
Sorry for the long post, but i felt that I needed to explain myself fully.
I recently took over the radio communications for a small correctional facility and to be honest have never worked with radios in any other capacity then as a user/installer.It kinda just fell in my lap. I have been making slow improvements in the radio system since. We have a Motorola Quantar Repeater in the VHF frequency band on our water tower and use HT750 portables, CDM1250 and 1550 mobile radios. I have the newest version of CPS and the programming cables for all of our radios in service and several that we no longer use.
We recently replaced the CM200 that was our dispatch center radio with a CDM 1550 and updated all of our radios to emit a PTT ID via MDC with aliasing at the dispatch radio. This was to allow us to see who was talking and to begin the process of enabling emergency signaling for fixed posts such as cell houses and medical staff.
I have been successful so far with help from the local Emergency Mgt, but have been unable to figure our something that I think would be beneficial and other facilities use during emergencies.
I would like to program a button on the CDM1550 to emit an emergency alert tone (Alert 2 or 3) that the dispatcher could activate after someone requests emergency help that would be like a Perk up or Alert that officers knew meant an emergency had been called and the dispatcher was going to give the information out.
Sounds odd, but our other facilities use it. We do not have the funds for a dispatch console or MIP5000 that would obviously be able to do this.
Sorry for the long post, but i felt that I needed to explain myself fully.
