W9NES
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I was listening to the Dist 52 Simucast for Boone County on Sat 10-9-2010 around 10PM when I heard talkgroup 20480 locked up on my Radio Shack Pro-2096.Found out it was ISP Dist 34 Jasper Post Dispatch.Jasper was loud and clear.
Isp dist 34 disp talkgroup
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Which means simply there was a District 34 radio affiliated with a tower that you were scanning. Exactly how the system is supposed to work. I used to hear District 33 traffic when a certain trooper was visiting his mother. (Otherwise it was rare for me to hear that traffic). ISP radios will pretty much affiliate with any towers in the State. Most other radios will only have their local groups affiliate with a tower within their area unless a Statewide or mutual aid group.
usswood
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or if that agency pays for Omnilink, correct??
I think the policy for most "local" agency is the agency county and closest county sites are the only ones that will allow affiliation. And it may only include one or two sites in a county.
If they want wide-area or out of area communications it must be down on a state-wide mutual aid group, even the regional mutual aid groups on work in the group's geographical region. You can't talk on a region F talk-group while in region Q, remember this is most radios. Some I believe ISP, DHS, IDEM, those types have affiliation "rights" all over the state on any channel/group programmed. Most other radios have to be within the geographic area. Omni-link is the moto term that allows the "linking" of sites to do that type of stuff. The ability is set by the State.
I'm not sure, but I believe any radio affiliation status can be changed as needed in the State EOC/IPSC center.
usswood
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ok...I know at one time Vigo Sheriff was paying for the ability for there Deputies to be able to talk anywhere in the state on there TG back to Dispatch, I don't know if they are still paying for that enhanced feature or not, but when there first went to Safe-T, they wanted to make sure that on transports there Deputies could still use there radio...I don't think they have this feature anymore however..
This comes down to an education issue. Their deputies can talk to their dispatch anywhere in the state by using one of the state wide channels. Allowing a county dispatch talk-group to affiliate on every tower in the state is a HUGH waste of resources. Teach the deputies and dispatch that there are already resources in place to accomplish what they want to do.
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