This evening hearing JCMC EMS - Hudcen using RJ PSIC Talkgroup 4413. confirmed - Unkown if this is permanent.
This patch has been in place on Comm4 for approximately 1 week. A lot of internal restructuring has been performed lately in the RWJBH EMS branches. This is unlikely permanent per se since JCMC will likely become primary on NJICS and the VHF will go offline. Remains to be seen and is certainly not an imminent move.This evening hearing JCMC EMS - Hudcen using RJ PSIC Talkgroup 4413. confirmed - Unkown if this is permanent.
Reminds me of when they went to the 900 MHz SMRs and were half between the WTC site for east and Claridge House to cover the west. I wonder how well NJICS covers into Hudson County.The skinny on Jersey City Medical Center, for now, they are going to remain on that Talkgroup 4413, they will still have some communications on the VHF channel as well 155.235 PL 146.2 and VHF Ops 5 remains in the place moderators, please do not delete the older information lets not make the same mistake with Jersey City as in some of the agencies that go on PSIC and we are quick to delete the older systems case in point Bloomfield and Belleville will keep there older system in place as a back up - people that have the 536 and sds 100 etc etc can put everything in one favorites list to monitor Jersey City / Hudcen -
Which reminds me of being unable to use 155.235 simplex in Somerset County at times because JCMC (repeated then, I think) was clobbering even my mobile. Local dispatchers thought I was nuts switching to the fire channel to raise them because they never monitored the channel; I also think the local system relied upon manual switching between sites instead of automatic voting so they were listening on a worse site geographically and topographically....VHF coverage on 155.235 was a nightmare when it was simplex. I had to put voting receivers in Bayonne and West New York to stop the private services in Staten Island from capturing over the portable radios.
Well, since everything is different now, maybe some history is in order. JCMC EMS was originally on 155.265 MHz, which had been shared with Hatzolah's "H-base." There were frequent conflicts. Prior to coming on as "MC-11" (the communications coordinator and a line paramedic), one of the early tasks was switching from 155.265 to 155.235. The frequency was selected because it was co-channel with West Orange First Aid Squad, and several people at the time had affiliations with the squad. There were a number of Mocom-70s and MX portables that needed to be re-crystalled. The 1986 base station power levels for 155.235 on WNGK988 were 20 W, same as they are now. I had met with the NJ frequency coordinator and EMS frequency coordinator at the time to try to get more, as the ambulette company in Staten Island would heterodyne with the MC in Jersey City, but following the 1985 expansion into Bayonne, the ambulette company would completely capture over the MC to units in the field, and would block simplex talk-back. Everything was simplex then, and repeaterizing the system was not possible at the time.Which reminds me of being unable to use 155.235 simplex in Somerset County at times because JCMC (repeated then, I think) was clobbering even my mobile. Local dispatchers thought I was nuts switching to the fire channel to raise them because they never monitored the channel; I also think the local system relied upon manual switching between sites instead of automatic voting so they were listening on a worse site geographically and topographically.
Reminds me of when they went to the 900 MHz SMRs and were half between the WTC site for east and Claridge House to cover the west. I wonder how well NJICS covers into Hudson County.
VHF coverage on 155.235 was a nightmare when it was simplex. I had to put voting receivers in Bayonne and West New York to stop the private services in Staten Island from capturing over the portable radios.
NJICS has very good coverage in JC i think one of the west orange towers is located in JC
That site map does not show the subsites of simulcast cells. There are five subsites in the West Orange simulcast, which you are not seeing on that map.According to the Site License Map the closest are still in Essex, Bergen, and Union county with none in Hudson currently. But haven't heard an issue with NJICS yet in Hudson.
https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?action=siteMap&sid=7021&type=rr
Did hey say how many TG's they will have and if they will be in the ClearJersey City HUDCEN will be keeping 235 in place so let's not get any crazy ideas about deleting it, My information comes directly from a HUDCEN Chief that 235 will remain in place.
No, it was a 75 W non-unified T2-2R Micor, same as the HEAR radios (that's what it was). The MED base was a 4 channel upright Micor cabinet, but wasn't 330 or 250 W.Hey 902 didn't JCMED have a 330 watt Micor on the roof, I believe it was on .265 or .205 in the 70's. I used to listen to JCMED from my home in mid Westchester county.
I foolishly turned down a full "scholarship" as it was decribed to me at JCMED for the paramedic program in 1978. It included room board meals etc in the old nurses dorm building that was torn down in 1980. Always loved the ER being on the 5th floor, the last time I rode there was May of 1980.
What about the 155.1675 repeater?Jersey City HUDCEN will be keeping 235 in place so let's not get any crazy ideas about deleting it, My information comes directly from a HUDCEN Chief that 235 will remain in place.