Anne Arundel Radio System Down?

[ThePhotoGuy]

Appears that the Anne Arundel radio system is down

Annapolis PD is using FiRST MD TAC 2.

 

[maus92]

Interesting - Fire dispatch VHF is up.

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

APD will now use MD TAC 4.

No idea what AAFD or AAPD is using.

 

[maus92]

CMARC?

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

Getting zero signal on AA radio system.

 

[maus92]

8TAC94 is in use

 

[maus92]

Fire Alarm is doing a roll call on 8TAC92. 8TAC93 also in use.

 

[maus92]

Maybe the police are using RINS?

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

System back up!

 

[maus92]

"The system is coming back up" - heard on 1616

 

[maus92]

Fire Alarm still testing.... units still using the TACs

 

[maus92]

Annapolis Police switching back to AACo from MD TAC 4, doing roll call.

 

[maus92]

Fire dispatches now on Alpha as well, still operating on the TACs.

 

[maus92]

SMEs back in service.

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

Going through the recordings. Looks like the last radio transmission was 10:08 and the first transmission was 10:56 when the system went back up.

Good reminder to keep 154.01 still programmed in the radio. Must of have deleted it a while ago. Never heard any activity on CMARC which I believed they used previously when they had radio issues. Didn't get any activity on the 8 Tac's, I guess I don't get good reception of those frequencies.

I wonder what caused the outage?

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

A Battalion Chief notified a unit to check their departmental email about "upcoming radio maintenance." Not sure if it is connected with yesterday's outage.

 

[JayG1176]

The radio system went down due to the Vendor... from what i was told by a few in FD.

 

[JayG1176]

Going through the recordings. Looks like the last radio transmission was 10:08 and the first transmission was 10:56 when the system went back up.

Good reminder to keep 154.01 still programmed in the radio. Must of have deleted it a while ago. Never heard any activity on CMARC which I believed they used previously when they had radio issues. Didn't get any activity on the 8 Tac's, I guess I don't get good reception of those frequencies.

I wonder what caused the outage?

Supposedly the vendor caused the issue.

 

[maus92]

Going through the recordings. Looks like the last radio transmission was 10:08 and the first transmission was 10:56 when the system went back up.

Good reminder to keep 154.01 still programmed in the radio. Must of have deleted it a while ago. Never heard any activity on CMARC which I believed they used previously when they had radio issues. Didn't get any activity on the 8 Tac's, I guess I don't get good reception of those frequencies.

I wonder what caused the outage?

I have a knob position on the G5 set to monitor VHF dispatch, which came in handy yesterday. Normally I have a FTO for Station 40 set. I don't have 154.01 programmed in any of the scanners because the tone outs can be annoying.

Did you ever figure out where the county police went during the outage?

 

[ThePhotoGuy]

I have a knob position on the G5 set to monitor VHF dispatch, which came in handy yesterday. Normally I have a FTO for Station 40 set. I don't have 154.01 programmed in any of the scanners because the tone outs can be annoying.

Did you ever figure out where the county police went during the outage?

No, I never figured it out. I have RINS and the 8Tac's programmed in my 436hp but didn't get any transmissions. They were not active on any FiRST MD Tac's. I also monitored CMARC and didn't get any activity.

Maybe they used their in car computers for dispatch/ops.