Whistler
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Starting in April, Allegany County will begin to coordinate all EMS traffic for Garrett, Allegany, and Washington Counties. The MED channels for this will utilize MED 3 and MED 6 and also use CALL 1. All hospital patches with be done on MED 3 or 6 for all three counties. This ought to be interesting with three counties using two channels for patches. Anyone in this area that may have further info please submit here and update my info if I have missed something. MED 5 and MED 7 as well as CALL 2 will no longer be utilized. I am guess this will be the bridge into the new 700mHz system that is being worked on and I believe slated for 2010 or so. I believe some of this traffic will be sent through Fiber Optics that was laid in the middle of I-68 and I-70 in the late 90's and early 2000's.
There is a long story as how to use the MED channels. Basically a unit uses CALL 1 to call Allegany EMRC asks for a MED channel and is then assigned either 3 or 6. They go to that channel, key up and say perhaps Unit xxx standing by.... Keying up allows the system, by way of voters, to find the closest tower to the unit and switch radio traffic to that voter. Then the hospital comes on and away we go. Any corrections or additions to this post are gladly appreciated.
There is a long story as how to use the MED channels. Basically a unit uses CALL 1 to call Allegany EMRC asks for a MED channel and is then assigned either 3 or 6. They go to that channel, key up and say perhaps Unit xxx standing by.... Keying up allows the system, by way of voters, to find the closest tower to the unit and switch radio traffic to that voter. Then the hospital comes on and away we go. Any corrections or additions to this post are gladly appreciated.
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