I was thinking the same thing Chris. Not sure who/what animal created that document.
As for the STATEWIDE Tone, those are all [including Mass] going Bye-Bye, as they were created [showing my age] back when radios had a limited [12-16] set of frequencies vs now with 256+ and multiple Zones.
Many folks are going with Direct in the Radios. What no one has thought of was a Zone with a Reverse Pair [set up on a roof of the Hospital and act as the Hospital to hear the mobile units]
Time-out timers are important. Home or Emergency Revert to a primary channel. And as you pointed out, where is the Near-By States UHF info.
Mass has worked on one [thru a Region, not sure if it will become statewide, but....]
a.) Alpha Display [both 8 Character and 14 Character 2 Line displays
b.) Common Naming
c.) TX Power
d.) TX Deviation, to track Narrow vs Wide [for now]
e.) Emerg Revert
f.) ID [Ani] limited to MED 4
g.) DoS Mute
h.) No Scan Lists for a MED Radio
i.) Med 4 has a 15 Sec ToT
j.) All UHF Interop in One Zone
k.) Only MED 92 is Simplex
What a horrible document to be called a "Standard". It is merely a programming list and poorly done at that.
- They don't address time out timers, penalty timers, power output, etc, but hey, the antenna will be on the roof.
- Simplex for every channel in every region in a mobile unit?
- No reference to system use documents, for example every region seems to have different Unit IDs.
- No reference to out of state transports, Springfield CMED also has a UHF system.
- The learning curve of having to teach everyone Zones and Channels will be a pain
- Only one of the UHF UTAC/UCALL channels?
- It looks like the statewide PL is gone.
Pretty much par for the course from CT OEMS though.
chris