PriorMike
Member
Bear with me here as I'm not too versed on the technical side of how these things work...
Where I am each township(18 of them) has its own frequency for paging and fire ground communications, and dispatch has its own separate frequency that is used for communicating with them. Paging works(from what I understand) that the page is sent out on a certain frequency and the specific department has a base that rebroadcasts the page on the department frequency. The system is quite old, and there have been discussions on replacing/updating it.
Now, I don't speak for anyone else but myself, but I find it inefficient(and possibly unsafe) that you have to change channels to communicate with dispatch, removing yourself from the rest of the department.
My question is, does the technology exist that a dispatcher can monitor each department and also communicate with them on their respective channels? Has to be analog.
Where I am each township(18 of them) has its own frequency for paging and fire ground communications, and dispatch has its own separate frequency that is used for communicating with them. Paging works(from what I understand) that the page is sent out on a certain frequency and the specific department has a base that rebroadcasts the page on the department frequency. The system is quite old, and there have been discussions on replacing/updating it.
Now, I don't speak for anyone else but myself, but I find it inefficient(and possibly unsafe) that you have to change channels to communicate with dispatch, removing yourself from the rest of the department.
My question is, does the technology exist that a dispatcher can monitor each department and also communicate with them on their respective channels? Has to be analog.