I was in South Haven on Sunday, 9/3/23, and was hearing some weird, random traffic on MPSCS. I was receiving traffic on H EVENT 26 (1035), H EVENT 28 (1037), MSP 3 (1007), and one of the MPSCS "Demo" talkgroups (one of the ones in the 1300's, I didn't catch which one). The "Demo" TG had a couple of fire calls being dispatched by the creepy female computer voice (similar to northwestern Indiana). I figured someone was doing some testing in preparation of switching fire dispatching over to the MPSCS, so I didn't think much of that. But then I started getting police-type traffic on the other talkgroups. There was a pursuit which lasted about 20-30 minutes on H EVENT 28. They mentioned street names of 76th, 68th, and Shelby, and also mentioned "going back to the Firestone on 76th" after the pursuit was over. (The suspects fled on foot, the female officer calling out the pursuit & her partner got 2 in custody, another officer got one, and a fourth was still outstanding.) This didn't sound like training, this sounded like the real deal. Again, I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but then I started looking at the radio ID's to see which department this was, and that's when it got weird. The RID's all started with "4", and the next 2 digits were either 12, 14, or 15. So I thought "Okay, Branch and Cass - both in District 5. Maybe some joint task force thing. But 15? CHARLEVOIX?????" And Zone 4? Branch and Cass are both in Zone 3. But wait, there's more: All of this traffic was being carried on the same site: The Zone 3 Site On Wheels. This wasn't ducting from across the lake, because the dispatcher who was answering the units on the pursuit was giving the time, which matched with EDT. And yes, I've checked my programming.
Anybody have any theories? I'd even settle for a Wild-A$$ Guess carried out to 2 decimal places....
Anybody have any theories? I'd even settle for a Wild-A$$ Guess carried out to 2 decimal places....
