Open Mics are always dangerous

Aurora Fire lieutenant caught on dispatch radio making lewd comments about female EMT - 7NEWS Denver TheDenverChannel.com

AURORA, Colo. - An Aurora Fire Department lieutenant was caught over the radio making lewd comments about a female EMT responding to the same call.

The incident occurred in March and was captured on a dispatch recording.

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In my personal radios, I usually program my primary channel twice...once as receive only and one step up as tx/rx. I leave the radio "at rest" on the rx channel to prevent open mic. Not terribly practical in an on duty radio, but good for a radio you don't need to transmit on too often.

In New York City, they can turn the mixer off, preventing anyone but dispatch from hearing the field unit audio. That seems to be a rare feature in public safety radio systems though.

We used to have that problem with MTS-2000's, the PTT was really touchy and we'd get a lot of dead keys from people sitting on their radios while driving. Usually pretty tame stuff, but occasionally....

Always assume it's being recorded and everyone can hear.

I remember a similar issue back when TxDOT was running low band. Two employees were making some interesting remarks across the radios. They were in the Amarillo district and being heard across the state. Only took about 15 minutes for a yard supervisor to get a phone call from Austin telling him to locate the employees and another 5 minutes to actually find them.

channel 7 ran a story friday night which included audio. someone needs to tell them they moved to tac channels not tag channels as they referred to them .

Big whoops on the open mic thing. I bet that's a couple of minutes he'd like to do over.