I live in Ogden where all the offices were shot up after trying to serve a search warrant. Very surprised there is no discussion of it anywhere here on RR or UtahRadio two days afterwards. Am I the only person in Weber, Davis or Box Elder Counties monitoring with a scanner?
In the middle of this incident I was following local transmissions and in the middle of their shifts one Weber Sheriff's Officer (1FR34) and a So. Ogden Officer (4FR22) had the dispatcher change their callsigns to 1FT34 and 4FT22 in the computer. Thereafter they were dispatched by the new callsigns.
Today they are back on as their original callsigns starting their shifts at 06:00.
Specifically I was monitoring trying to nail down individual radio id's to use in narrowing down stuff I don't want to hear. But I don't understand how they change their callsigns at the end of the day much less in the middle of a shift like that. It does not appear their functions changed only their callsigns. BIZZARE!!! and CONFUSING!!
Anyone want to weigh in on this subject or the the subject where no information was posted by anyone about the shooting here in Ogden 6 blocks from my house?
In all the time I've been scanning since 1972 the officers moniker was their callsign and they protected it as fervently as they protected their badges. Now what is it that identifies them uniquely? It isn't their radio id's because patrol officers are issued both a handheld and a radio attached to the dashboard in their car with a different radio digital signature id.
Trying to monitor in Weber County - squeezed between Morgan County on our East (dispatched from our EOC), Box Elder on our North (Now sharing our simulcast) Tooele on the West (sharing the Promintory Point Site - just like Tooele and Salt Lake share Nelson Peak), and Davis on the South - all within 25 miles and ALL using different dispatch conventions, for the same stuff, is absolutely confusing unless I'm actively watching a scanner displaying the tgid the transmission is coming from. Even then I still do not know what the "R" Romeo or "T" Tango are used for in Weber County. They have completely different meaings in the other counties. We have a traffic officer here in Ogden which is officially known as 2FM1....They dispatch him as "Mike 1" and he does not ride a motorcycle but drives a crown vic.....
I was able to collect the individual radio id's of 1214 individual different users during the shooting - and it looks like that info will never help narrow down the scanning headache - it just added over a thousand more bits of info to the already growing collection......
Thanks,
Paul
In the middle of this incident I was following local transmissions and in the middle of their shifts one Weber Sheriff's Officer (1FR34) and a So. Ogden Officer (4FR22) had the dispatcher change their callsigns to 1FT34 and 4FT22 in the computer. Thereafter they were dispatched by the new callsigns.
Today they are back on as their original callsigns starting their shifts at 06:00.
Specifically I was monitoring trying to nail down individual radio id's to use in narrowing down stuff I don't want to hear. But I don't understand how they change their callsigns at the end of the day much less in the middle of a shift like that. It does not appear their functions changed only their callsigns. BIZZARE!!! and CONFUSING!!
Anyone want to weigh in on this subject or the the subject where no information was posted by anyone about the shooting here in Ogden 6 blocks from my house?
In all the time I've been scanning since 1972 the officers moniker was their callsign and they protected it as fervently as they protected their badges. Now what is it that identifies them uniquely? It isn't their radio id's because patrol officers are issued both a handheld and a radio attached to the dashboard in their car with a different radio digital signature id.
Trying to monitor in Weber County - squeezed between Morgan County on our East (dispatched from our EOC), Box Elder on our North (Now sharing our simulcast) Tooele on the West (sharing the Promintory Point Site - just like Tooele and Salt Lake share Nelson Peak), and Davis on the South - all within 25 miles and ALL using different dispatch conventions, for the same stuff, is absolutely confusing unless I'm actively watching a scanner displaying the tgid the transmission is coming from. Even then I still do not know what the "R" Romeo or "T" Tango are used for in Weber County. They have completely different meaings in the other counties. We have a traffic officer here in Ogden which is officially known as 2FM1....They dispatch him as "Mike 1" and he does not ride a motorcycle but drives a crown vic.....
I was able to collect the individual radio id's of 1214 individual different users during the shooting - and it looks like that info will never help narrow down the scanning headache - it just added over a thousand more bits of info to the already growing collection......
Thanks,
Paul