sjgostovich
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New radio systems online for law enforcement & emergency agencies
Anybody have any updates for this?
Anybody have any updates for this?
New radio systems online for law enforcement & emergency agencies
Anybody have any updates for this?
Personally i wouldn`t mind if they (Eau Claire county SO) went digital, it might be intresting to see how they`d shake out using it . Even more fun would be if they went to WISCOM , now THAT would be intresting! Just my thinkin`. N9NRA
You'd think you would hear the digital modulation on their channels if they were testing on a digital mode? I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's just a late narrow banding procedure. It'd be cool if they went digital P25, but I think there would be more evidence of testing and whatnot if they did?!
Eau Claire County Changes
151.38500/159.16500 new county paging repeater <http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=7985979>
155.00250/159.43500 new county parks repeater (replacing 151.385) <http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=8012080>
City of Eau Claire Changes
154.11500/158.88000 WQI960 Eau Claire PD Secondary (license shows 154.115 as a simplex frequency)
155.53500 WQI960 Eau Claire PD (not listed in Radio Reference, but this is licensed as a repeater)
Follow up on my post from yesterday
Listening today it sEems to be at least three different things going on.
1. Tones and voice broadcast of all EC (city and county)fire and EMS calls. Just the dispatch with nothing heard of any response traffic.
2. Paging tones only with no voice. Didn't seem to correspond with any public service traffic.
3. Rapid DTMF strings. Sounds like about 10-15 DTMF tones sent out rapid fire.
Maybe someone can come up with what the DTMF thing is?
Just guessing - fire departments try to shave time off the dispatch process to help minimize response times.
So to the extent possible, fire departments which are completely career organizations look toward alternative fire station alerting technology. If they can eliminate 16 seconds worth of "tone time", that helps with their "On Scene" time.