QV has announced that as of December 1st 2006 the alpha paging system will no longer be used to put out tone and voice on 152.0075. The reason for this is to allow for a major system upgrade which included the addition of a paging terminal which will enable the system to be accessed remotely either through phone lines or IP. Currently only the dispatch centers can send out alpha pagers. Many departments want the ability to send out administrative pages without having to go throught the dispatch center.
After years of trying to have both tone and voice and the terminal access it was finally decided to discontinue tone and voice on 152.0075. It will be interesting to see what TN is goning to do since they have never officially bought inton the system and have several departments who are heavily invested in VHF tone paging. Coventry, Mansfield, Vernon, Tolland, Somers, East Windsor, Staffordville to name a few. I also know that Columbia, Andover and Bolton also have a few VHF pagers as well.
I beleive that QV and the other users of the system will still be putting out tone and voice on 33.80 at least for the time being.
After years of trying to have both tone and voice and the terminal access it was finally decided to discontinue tone and voice on 152.0075. It will be interesting to see what TN is goning to do since they have never officially bought inton the system and have several departments who are heavily invested in VHF tone paging. Coventry, Mansfield, Vernon, Tolland, Somers, East Windsor, Staffordville to name a few. I also know that Columbia, Andover and Bolton also have a few VHF pagers as well.
I beleive that QV and the other users of the system will still be putting out tone and voice on 33.80 at least for the time being.