Hamilton Fire Pagers

[Chrome69]

All i get is the outskirts pages nothing in town and yes a lot of garbage at times... I know Hamilton is busier then what i am getting for pages, i use to listen to the simulcast before...they may just switch to the VHF narrow to cut down on cost of replacing antennas. Not to bust the bubble here as i like the paging but can anyone explain why they just don't go to a email format instead of paging? Would it not be cheaper and more effective to do Blackberries to the Captains and Chiefs? if they don't have them already? Mind you it would suck for us but who knows...

 

[unlisted]

Well, the vollie and (from what I was told) the part time FF's carry the pagers along with every support/command/admin/etc member.

I guess it would be cost prohibitive to just "give" all the vollies Blackberries. Hell, I'd approve of getting a free FD crackberry..

Plus, IIRC, blackberries/cell phone networks are more vunerable to failing, than a pager system is. Mission critical I would say is the main reason they do not use email alerts, or text message alerts.

A few people I know have the "text message to cell phone" option with their depts- BUT- they still have a issued portable with them, or a alpha/voice pager. Kinda like double redundancy. There has also been many times the text never came through on their mobile, but it did on their pager... so its not totally foolproof.

I don't make the radio decisions, I just get it handed to me, or hear whats about to happen, and to "suck it up" when it happens. lol

 

[unlisted]

New pagers were delivered this past Friday to the stations and picked up over the weekend. Don't know exactly when the new pager system will be up, the info with the pagers is "old ones will not function after the start of pager system maintenance".

 

[unlisted]

Update..

New pager system will be "switched on" this coming Monday. Not sure of the time thou. They have been testing it out the past week.

And.. all the new pagers/system were done for one reason- narrowband. (apparently the apollo pagers they bought about a year ago are not capable.. heh)

New pagers look like this, for anyone interested.

 

[Chrome69]

Any Updates on there paging system? is it still active or anything changed? I haven't tried it in well over a year may take another swing at it if its active and running both in and surrounding Hamilton area?

 

[unlisted]

No updates since the last time I posted, pager system still very much in use.

 

[Chrome69]

Is the Fire paging still in use @ 154.2500

 

[Chrome69]

I know old thread but has anyone found Hamilton's Freq for their pages in the 800mhz I know ems has taken over the 154.25000, its for a buddy of mine.

 

[exkalibur]

Try 154.8300.

 

[Chrome69]

Ok Thanks i will let him know

 

[mciupa]

I thought I would check TAFL as well and saw this listed:

 407.062500 F1DCN 6 ANCASTER, PADDY GREENE ROAD  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX706 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 BINBROOK, FIRE STATION  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX707 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 CARLISLE, WATER TOWER  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX705 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 HAMILTON, HENDERSON HOSPITAL  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  XJH89 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 ROCKTON, 810 WOODHILL ROAD  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VXH291 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 STONEY CREEK, 777 HWY 8  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VXH292 2009-05-01

I'm too far away to check, but if they can check, it may not hurt.

 

[Chrome69]

I thought they switched up to 800mz paging? The 154.8300 is not working according to my friend and he is down in Burlington.

 

[SCPD]

I thought they switched up to 800mz paging? The 154.8300 is not working according to my friend and he is down in Burlington.

Anyone hear any digital noise or voice on the 407 Mhz channel? In Toronto I think I might be too far away, the digital noise used to come blasting in on the VHF channel.

 

[Chrome69]

It looks like their still on the same freq but EMS shares it with them I have had fire pages on their as has my buddy 154.2500mhz

 

[mbstone99]

I thought I would check TAFL as well and saw this listed:

 407.062500 F1DCN 6 ANCASTER, PADDY GREENE ROAD  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX706 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 BINBROOK, FIRE STATION  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX707 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 CARLISLE, WATER TOWER  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VAX705 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 HAMILTON, HENDERSON HOSPITAL  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  XJH89 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 ROCKTON, 810 WOODHILL ROAD  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VXH291 2009-05-01 
 407.062500 F1DCN 6 STONEY CREEK, 777 HWY 8  City Of Hamilton - Fire Department Attention: Fire Chief 1227 Stone Church Road, Hamilton ON, L8W2C6  VXH292 2009-05-01

I'm too far away to check, but if they can check, it may not hurt.

I will give these a listen to as well as the 154.2500 and see what I hear..

Matt

 

[mbstone99]

I will give these a listen to as well as the 154.2500 and see what I hear..

Matt

It sounded like type type of POCSAG paging on the 154.2500 but nothing was heard on the other frequency.

Matt

 

[Chrome69]

It sounded like type type of POCSAG paging on the 154.2500 but nothing was heard on the other frequency.

Matt

They are on their Matt, its alpha tags paging