fdny fire

Since last night, there seems to be volume fluctuations on the Queens frequency. Dispatcher will come in low at times, then high all of sudden. Same dispatcher but the same thing happens on rotating dispatchers too. Field units come in normal though. Anybody else noticing this?

I was randomly scanning tonight and I picked up FDNY fireground traffic from a fire about 1 mile away from me on their old VHF frequency 153.8300 with a PL of 151.4. It definitely sounded simplex since I didn’t hear a repeater hangtime after the transmissions. I listened on the usual UHF...