Automated Voice dispatch in Halton

[EJB]

Starting to hear consistent automated voice dispatch for both the Burlington and Oakville fire services. Earlier in the year I heard a good deal of testing with AVD (Automated Voice Dispatch). Haven't heard really any calls for the Milton and Halton Hills FS this afternoon, less population, lessor calls.

Curious to see the Radio ID for this.

 

[RainbowSix]

While monitoring today in oakville , heard the automated voice dispatch on both Oakville and Burlington Ops channels. radio ids showing up were 107, 109 and 110 for 3 seperate calls.
Confirmed that those are dispatch radio console ids.

 

[RainbowSix]

My mistake, meant to type in dispatch channel , not Ops channel.

 

[EJB]

Cool, the normal Radio ID's for dispatch.

 

[RainbowSix]

Yup, the AVD would dispatch the call using one of those ids depending on what dispatch console sent it.
The responding apparatus would acknowledge the call on the assigned Tac channel.
The dispatcher would the reply on the Tac channel with more info regarding the call,
using one of those radio ids.

 

[EJB]

Yup. Thats how it played out.

Not sure if Halton Hills or Milton are using this yet.

 

[yorkphotog]

In Halton, only the Burlington/Oakville dispatch centre will be using Locution.

It will eventually be implemented in Toronto and possibly Peel as well.

Burlington/Oakville have been on Locution for a while but it is IP-based, so the calls don't typically go over the air. In Halton, the chiefs wanted all calls going over the air whether trucks are in station or not. Hopefully this will be the same in Toronto and Peel.

 

[exkalibur]

I think it will be in Toronto. A friend saw a bunch of radios that he was told were for "station alerting" - they were 700/800MHz XTL mobiles.