Barnes Hospitals net - in Columbia!

[wbloss]

While in Columbia 10/23 (which is the 4th Tuesday) at about 9:15am I heard an extensive roll call of hospitals that are related to the Barnes-Jewish network. It included Boone Hospital Center which is affiliated with BJC carrying all the dozen or so hospitals and other entities checking in on their 453.400 PL 88.5 frequency. I wonder what freq is used for this net in St L, St Peters, Illinois etc! It seemed like something well suited for MOSWIN.
They concluded stating it was the "monthly test of the ACUNSU" system. Not sure re the letters.

w

 

[kruser]

That's interesting. I've never ran across this one here in St Louis but will need to listen for it now.
The majority of BJC facilities here are on a decent size NXDN system now. It's actually run by a local radio dealer and it seems some of the known NXDN sites may also carry non BJC related chatter as well. Several talkgroups on the system have been confirmed as BJC however.
The NXDN network here is a UHF network.

Warner Communications-BJC Hospitals (NXDN) Trunking System, St Louis, Multi-State

Warner Communications-BJC Hospitals (NXDN) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

The local BJC facilities here often have other licensed frequencies that don't appear to have anything to do with the NXDN network. It's those I'll need to watch for this ACUNSU? net you heard.

 

[ecps92]

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2851864

they may have it patched from another network

While in Columbia 10/23 (which is the 4th Tuesday) at about 9:15am I heard an extensive roll call of hospitals that are related to the Barnes-Jewish network. It included Boone Hospital Center which is affiliated with BJC carrying all the dozen or so hospitals and other entities checking in on their 453.400 PL 88.5 frequency. I wonder what freq is used for this net in St L, St Peters, Illinois etc! It seemed like something well suited for MOSWIN.
They concluded stating it was the "monthly test of the ACUNSU" system. Not sure re the letters.

w

 

[WingnutStl]

My best "guess" is that it was traffic that was patched to one of the Missouri Hospital Association or Missouri Health & Human Services talk groups on MOSWIN if it involved a large number of hospitals in mid Missouri.

 

[wbloss]

yes - but I had another radio scanning MOSWIN and did not hear it. 75% of the hospitals were in the greater St Louis area.

 

[ecps92]

your Zone/Towers may not have been carrying that traffic ? [Sorry, don't know the make up of that network]

yes - but I had another radio scanning MOSWIN and did not hear it. 75% of the hospitals were in the greater St Louis area.

 

[harrisjt]

BJC HealthCare internally calls this the ACU-NXU Net. Each BJC facility has a dedicated base station that is tied to dispatch at Barnes downtown Public Safety Dispatch they test this monthly(ACU-NXU is separate from the LTR/NXDN or Conv repeaters). All the radios at each facility has the NXU channel in it for emergency management during disasters MCIs etc. This net was used extensively during the Ferguson incident.

 

[wbloss]

BJC HealthCare internally calls this the ACU-NXU Net. Each BJC facility has a dedicated base station that is tied to dispatch at Barnes downtown Public Safety Dispatch they test this monthly(ACU-NXU is separate from the LTR/NXDN or Conv repeaters). All the radios at each facility has the NXU channel in it for emergency management during disasters MCIs etc. This net was used extensively during the Ferguson incident.

WHat do ACU-NXU stand for?
(Thanks!!)

 

[KD9FAL]

There is also the Hospital Amateur Radio Network (HARN) called on the second Friday of each month on 146.850. HARN includes Most hospitals in the St. Louis Bi-state region.