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[Citywide173]

Your text above says "especially since the G5 can receive both VHF and 800 P25" Technically it can receive one or the other, not both.
If your a member of 2 different FDs then you should have 2 different devices to monitor each.
Its great you personally want to carry 1 device but at any given time traffic can be on 1 device and you will significantly increase your chance of missing traffic on the other. If both are mission critical then you need to dedicate a device for each.
No matter how well a device is built, it can only pass 1 audio path at a time. So trying to monitor two is an unreal expectation.

I saw a pic of a local FD on scene of a fire. The IC had a speaker mic on each shoulder. 1 for dispatch and 1 for fire ground comms. Sure his APX can do much more then that but he realized the devices limitations.
Not the best example but if you get a bad storm up in your area both towns will be affected around the same time. Traffic will increase on both and you will need two radios.
While that may only account for a small portion of time you would need two, it doesnt negate that you want to make sure you get traffic on two different departments on different bands.

But your a subscriber. You are a member of 2 FDs. I am a listener and not responding to emergency calls. So for me id love to see them scan across systems.

This was brought up in another thread. The statement "if they have a radio then they wouldn't need our pager" was made by a person affiliated with Unication. It is an inaccurate statement because there are most definitely times where monitoring multiple talkgroups/frequencies can be beneficial to the end user. If it is mission critical, backups and redundancies need to be in place. The Unication pagers are a great tool, but only a small part of a bigger picture.

 

[mdsxfire]

The poster indicated he would need a 450-512 range, which precluded the DoD systems. I did get my answer though, Somerset County, which I haven't had the need to listen to in years, but it is knowledge that may come in handy in the future.

Yes Somerset County operates two phase 2 systems, 1 uhf 1 700, they are phasing agencies to the 700 system slowly but need more freq from the fcc as originally I don’t think they realized how much traffic the system would have, and I think the feds want the 500mhz back.


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[sefrischling]

Your text above says "especially since the G5 can receive both VHF and 800 P25" Technically it can receive one or the other, not both.
If your a member of 2 different FDs then you should have 2 different devices to monitor each. .

I do. I have two Minitor V pagers. One Dept dispatches on both 800 & Lowband. So I have the 33mhz Minitor V , and then I have the VHF Minitor V. What are you not understanding that I want to be able to carry a single pager to monitor them both?

The G5 market literature focus on the dual band capabilities of the pager. It is capable of monitoring both, however that is a firmware issue. Unication has not released a firmware that allows both to be monitored?

Its great you personally want to carry 1 device but at any given time traffic can be on 1 device and you will significantly increase your chance of missing traffic on the other. If both are mission critical then you need to dedicate a device for each.

Given that both departments also dispatch via Active 911 and I Am Responding, and both repeat their dispatches, chances are I would not miss the dispatch details from a single device, but would in fact be alerted to the call going out, since I often hear the pager and not my phone going off. Also, the G5 is water and dust proof, rather than the Minitor V , which is not water and dust proof.

I saw a pic of a local FD on scene of a fire. The IC had a speaker mic on each shoulder. 1 for dispatch and 1 for fire ground comms.

On the fireground I often have two radios, but I am not walking through Stop & Shop picking up my groceries with an XTS2500 and XTS3000 hanging off my belt either. The Fireground is not the same as being out and about during the day, or going to the beach with your kids, or walking along downtown in the evening. It is an entirely different environment. Also ... if you're trying to transmit from your pagers you are doing it wrong.

Go read the G5 marketing literature. It is quite misleading. Also, if you want to supply me with an APX 8000, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.