Bexar County Radios

[NC5267]

This is a little bit outdated because of all the new users on the LCRA P25 system but shows how a County radio is programmed and how long it took for the county to get city channels put into their radios. Also the SAFD SCAT system is interesting.

http://gov.bexar.org/arpss/docs/RadioTraining-Rebanding.pdf

 

[Michael-SATX]

Very Cool NC, thanks for sharing ! It was a GREat 37 page read

 

[texasemt13]

That was a good read... how many hands do you think shot up after page 37?

They did a pretty good job of breaking it down for the beat officers who only care that it works and will follow a dispatcher's advice to switch talkgroups.

Thanks NC.

 

[NC5267]

I like how they say the "Common" channel in all radios is not a Bullsh** channel. They use that channel now for the weekly Alamo Area Regional Interoperabality check in net patched to SA 5 on the LCRA P25 system. I also heard from my friend with Bexar County that most of the county guys have had SAPD channels well before 2011. I think now it is just that all users with the county or any agency using the system has access now.

 

[texasemt13]

Yep, a lot of new users in the past few years who are getting reprogrammed with the common channels. I liked the "no bullsh*tting" comment also. I'm glad they're going about this in a proper manner and will be using interop talkgroups every now and then to get radio users used to finding them in their lineups.

 

[NC5267]

Yeah i think the SWAT thing in Comfort last week Bexar county was patched to Kendall Ops 1..I did not catch what group it was patched to on the BC system but I assume it was the "Common" channel or one of the SA talkgroups. I know Schertz has worked and incident with BCSO on the Bexar Law talkgroup on the P25 side awhile back and the patched worked perfect, even Eagle was on the channel.