Why did they stop using this band? They need to get it back so they have a fireground to work off of on major incidents.
emergyncy band
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W3DMV
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What is the "emergency band" and please give us a reference area or location your
referring to. That information would help provide some possible answers.
referring to. That information would help provide some possible answers.
Philly fire use to have north band, south band and on multi alarm fires an emergency band. For some reason I am not sure they did away with it. Well in the past few weeks there's been several x alarm fires that could use that band. Such as the derail incident. Trying to talk while dispatching units to other incidents until finally they made the derail to north band only. Anyone know why they did away with this channel?
Are you referring to the VHF channels? If so, they went to a trunked system 10+ years ago and have 3 Tactical channels for North and 3 for South in addition to the North and South Dispatch channels.
Steveradio
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Think thats what he referring too
captaincab
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Yea that is what he meant in the old vhf system the emergency band was 153.950 which later became the frequency for central medic band and then they switched to 153.830S F-4 Fireground (Chief/Company officers)
153.935S F-5 Fireground (WLO, WSC, FMO, Rescue 1)
154.965S F-6 Fireground (Subway/underground )
153.935S F-5 Fireground (WLO, WSC, FMO, Rescue 1)
154.965S F-6 Fireground (Subway/underground )
captaincab
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Funny how all the old frequencies would still work these days if the city went back to them
philly fire
I have been out west for 12 yrs did not know all the radio changes sorry.
I have been out west for 12 yrs did not know all the radio changes sorry.
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