ka3jjz
Wiki Admin Emeritus
This morning I noticed something that hasn't been repoted yet, at least as far as I know. I'm new with my 396, so perhaps this is something that has already been noticed, but I found it interesting...
There was an aircraft reporting an emergency, and the BWI fire dispatch came up with the report. An AA county chief responded, and there was also some activity on the BWI Fire ops talkgroup. In and of itself, that wasn't what interested me - a moment later, the Chief showed up on the MAA system tg13, and it didn't sound like a patch (although it's certainly possible that it was). Fortunately the emergency was called off, and MAA came on their system to say that mutual aid could go available.
Anyway it makes me wonder whether the County now either has some MAA radios, or has a new zone set up for MAA. Wasn't it some time ago that we heard that all the AA fire radios had to be turned in for some reason? Perhaps this was the reason?
Still, interesting....73 Mike
There was an aircraft reporting an emergency, and the BWI fire dispatch came up with the report. An AA county chief responded, and there was also some activity on the BWI Fire ops talkgroup. In and of itself, that wasn't what interested me - a moment later, the Chief showed up on the MAA system tg13, and it didn't sound like a patch (although it's certainly possible that it was). Fortunately the emergency was called off, and MAA came on their system to say that mutual aid could go available.
Anyway it makes me wonder whether the County now either has some MAA radios, or has a new zone set up for MAA. Wasn't it some time ago that we heard that all the AA fire radios had to be turned in for some reason? Perhaps this was the reason?
Still, interesting....73 Mike