Our dispatchers cad system keys both radios and logs the times at the sametime 1 button.
Not if you are coming from a trunked system but the people moving from VHF AND UHF conventional systems like we did it was a good way to go. We kept 48 2tone VHF Minitor pagers operational along with our station alerting that was also 2tone VHF and if you get to drop your ISO rating a 1 point drop or raise will change your insurance prices a good bit. In some places 10% or more and to people on fixes income that is a large change.
In looking up a small town 10,000 the ISO rating going from 9 to 7 would save $200,000.00 a year to the people of the small town. Most small towns and counties that do not have 100's of fire trucks and thousands of firefighters onduty are in the 6 7 8 9 ISO ratings due to manpower equipment and budget problems and they have to work very hard to save money for the people they serve. A small town near me has 300 people in it they have received grants for a brush truck, new pumper, and a new tanker they use hand me down equipment from other departments and they run their department off the profit from the coke machine their department budget is 0 tax dollars and less than what 1 fulltime firefighter makes in most fulltime departments.
