Question about Newark NJ FD

[zerg901]

Newark Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Is 154.34 the input to Channel 1?

Isnt Channel 1 a repeater?

When do units move off Channel 1? For smoke showing or fire showing?

Peter Sz

 

[Tac-1]

No, Ch-1 is simplex

Channel Line up

Ch-1 simplex 154.130
Ch-2 repeater, (input is 154.340)
Ch-3 simplex 158.745
Ch 4 repeater 154.3100 (in 154.205)
Ch-5 unknown
Ch-6 unknown maybe OEM 155,100 R

 

[jaymatt1978]

Maybe channel 5 is SPEN4???

 

[joshua86]

the dispatcher will say all units responding to box "xxxx" switch to channel "x"

 

[zerg901]

So units in the field are usually on Channel 2 - right? They usually use the 154.13 repeater for day to day ops - right? Or do they usually use 154.13 in simplex mode? I would guess that they usually use Ch 2 when talking to the dispatcher, but they might switch to Ch 1 for a short range informal message to another field unit.

Peter Sz

 

[zerg901]

Do Newark FD units usually use Channel 2 (the repeater) for routine operations? Peter Sz

 

[Tac-1]

Ch-2 is the main dispatch channel been this way since the at least the 1970's when they only had two channels, ch-1 was fire ground , most of the time they just stayed on ch-2 unless there where multiple incidents
Now they have more channels so things might change

 

[zerg901]

Thanks very much for the info.

I remember reading some story (from way back when) saying that Newark FD was getting interference from EMS calls in Northampton County Pennsylvania. The story said something like - 'the hemorhoids probably were an emergency to the suffering soul in Northampton County, but they are really messing up our emergency operations here in Newark.' I guess that was in the says before PL.

Funny what sticks in your head over the years.

Peter Sz

 

[Tac-1]

No there was PL Northampton County base output was on NFD Repeater input and they they could be heard on the squelch tail they just overpowered the input and no portable radios could make it in unless they where close to a receiver site NC used run a long list of pager test making very difficult for NFD to get there message in (no cell phones back then)

 

[902]

No there was PL Northampton County base output was on NFD Repeater input and they they could be heard on the squelch tail they just overpowered the input and no portable radios could make it in unless they where close to a receiver site NC used run a long list of pager test making very difficult for NFD to get there message in (no cell phones back then)

They didn't start using CTCSS until much later, possibly in the mid-80s. My buddy and I used to listen to NFD from 1977 to about 1979. That whole era the repeater was indeed operating in carrier squelch. Once a week Northampton County would be doing their weekly test with QuikCall I ("squad 51 tones") encoders for volunteers and fire sirens. It would come right through the repeater. My friend heard Anne Arundel County FD in Maryland through Newark's repeater, wrote to them and got a nice QSL letter he framed when he was none but a geeky kid.