968 MHz?

[AM909]

Near the end of LA County > Paramedic Base Hospital Radio System:

968.000

RM

ReddiNet

LACo - ReddiNet - Disaster Tactical

FM

Emergency Ops

This seems like a typo. According to the Redbook, 968 MHz is for aeronautical radio navigation and is the ground side of DME/TACAN channel 7X.

 

[GTR8000]

I'm not even from the area, but found 968.000 MHz listed for Los Angeles County in the official EMSA Communications Resource Manual. Took me less than a minute to find it.

 

[AB5ID]

Near the end of LA County > Paramedic Base Hospital Radio System:

968.000

RM

ReddiNet

LACo - ReddiNet - Disaster Tactical

FM

Emergency Ops

This seems like a typo. According to the Redbook, 968 MHz is for aeronautical radio navigation and is the ground side of DME/TACAN channel 7X.

Good find! That's got to be a mistake 968 Mhz is channel 7X in the DME/TACAN band.

 

[AM909]

I'm not even from the area, but found 968.000 MHz listed for Los Angeles County in the official EMSA Communications Resource Manual. Took me less than a minute to find it.

Thanks. I guess I'll ask EMSA. Maybe they were just trying to document that 7X is in use at some helipad/airport in the list that follows (for some reason). ReddiNet doesn't appear anywhere else in that document, nor does a wildcard match for "9??.*" .

 

[AM909]

Links from the EMSA site to the most recent resource manual, dated May 2019: docx [removed PDF link as it's to some other document]

 

[AM909]

The Reddinet web site describes their software, which is apparently used in LA County to coordinate resources among hospitals and EMS. Anyone know anything about this system as implemented here? It mentions availability of a HughesNet satellite link backup, but that stuff is all above 10 GHz (Ku, K, Ka bands). Not that any of it would be useful to monitor. For completeness, I can't find any evidence of licensing, either. A couple days ago, I emailed LA County DHS, who contributed that entry in EMSA. Hopefully, we'll get a corrected freq if there is one.

 

[dlwtrunked]

Near the end of LA County > Paramedic Base Hospital Radio System:

968.000

RM

ReddiNet

LACo - ReddiNet - Disaster Tactical

FM

Emergency Ops

This seems like a typo. According to the Redbook, 968 MHz is for aeronautical radio navigation and is the ground side of DME/TACAN channel 7X.

Obvious (at least to some) this is almost certainly a typo for 468.000 MHz where the "4" was mistaken for a "9" (a common typo). 468.000 is a frequency used for communications between medical units.

 

[AM909]

Obvious (at least to some) this is almost certainly a typo for 468.000 MHz where the "4" was mistaken for a "9" (a common typo). 468.000 is a frequency used for communications between medical units.

That totally makes sense. Some counties require tags with freqs, model, and serial on interop radios. I can picture a MED-1 radio sitting beside the ReddiNet PC for manual co-ordination when the network fails, maybe with the freq tag obscured by a hood, so someone mis-read the label.

 

[avdrummerboy]

ReddiNet is a computer based software system that Southern California (LA and San Bernardino County hospitals I know for certain) area hospitals use to send messages/ alerts between themselves for EMS purposes. Can be used to notify that a hospital is on diversion/ internal disaster, that certain specialities aren't available that day, or a big one is for use in MCI notification and requests for bed availability. As best I know, it's mainly internet/ VPN but wouldn't be surprised at all if there is some microwave or satellite backup for it.