yea all I've seen as far as enc is the narcs and Violent offenders channels besides cisd and mcso tacs
Brazos Valley Activity Thread
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Not much activity lately, but yesterday the techs were doing tests again. I heard one tech mention that the system was "operationally fully tested." Haven't heard much since then, but MCSO 1 and Huntsville PD Primary keep popping up every once in a while. I am sort of bewildered as to exactly why it is only those two channels, though. If they were testing the connectivity of the sites, wouldn't they bring up others as well from other counties on the P25 system?
Not meaning to hijack the thread but since it's about BV stuff I thought I'd ask here. If no response I'll ask in a new thread.
A few questions about CS Fire and Bryan Fire:
1) What is CS Fire channel 7 on their radios?
2) Anyone know about the different levels of medic (and fire?) calls I hear on BryanFD? They using terms like "delta level" or "alpha level" on their dispatched calls.
3) When CS or Bryan has a working fire they will assign the sides of the building with a letter, like alpha side or delta side. Does the pattern go front to back then side to side or clockwise starting with the front or what? What determines the front of a building when it necessarily doesn't face the street, like an apt building within a complex with front doors on both sides of the building? Or a commercial building with a wrap around parking lot and no definate "front" and muliple main entrances.
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A few questions about CS Fire and Bryan Fire:
1) What is CS Fire channel 7 on their radios?
2) Anyone know about the different levels of medic (and fire?) calls I hear on BryanFD? They using terms like "delta level" or "alpha level" on their dispatched calls.
3) When CS or Bryan has a working fire they will assign the sides of the building with a letter, like alpha side or delta side. Does the pattern go front to back then side to side or clockwise starting with the front or what? What determines the front of a building when it necessarily doesn't face the street, like an apt building within a complex with front doors on both sides of the building? Or a commercial building with a wrap around parking lot and no definate "front" and muliple main entrances.
Thx
1) I think "Fire 7" is the University Fire Direct channel (TGID 4656) on the TAMU system.
2) The different levels you are referring to are sort of like the letter portion (I think) of the Medical Determinant Code system (Think Montgomery County EMS). In the code system, a cardiac arrest is a 9E1, or 9-Echo-1. BFD calls cardiac arrests "Echo-level", so I am assuming there is some correlation there. As for the others, they could also be related to the code system. I don't really know.
3) I'll ask my uncle, who's a volunteer firefighter up in New Jersey about that. I think they are standardized, but I'll get back to you on that one.
texasemt13
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I was taught that as you approach a building from the front (since usually they are paged to the address), you approach the alpha side. As you walk around the building in a clockwise direction, bravo, charlie, delta (for a 4 sided building). Depending on the shape of the building, it can get hairy, and easier to just use descriptions. For most large buildings the departments have a good floor plan layout or blueprints.
1. CSFD channel 7 is the TAMU fire ground on the TAMU radio system. When we have fires or related emergencies in some areas of campus we use this channel. There are some areas of campus that our city radio system does not work very well.
2. BFD uses the codes that are determined by the EMD (emergency medical dispatcher) through the program ProQA http://www.prioritydispatch.net/prd_police_proqa.php
Alpha is minor, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, then Echo is CPR in progress. The codes are given when the units are dispatched just to give the unit a heads up of the severity of the patient.
3. Alpha side of the building is the address side or the side command sets up as alpha, then it works clockwise from there.
Any other questions let me know
Been seeing some additional TGIDs coming up recently. So far, I've picked up Bay City PD (1218), Bay City ISD PD (1236), and MCSO Dispatch Ch. 4 (2032). The Bay City channels only came up briefly. It seems that whoever has a radio monitoring Montgomery County has switched from MCSO 1 to MCSO 4. Since the radio techs announced that the system had been operationally tested, I haven't heard any activity on their channel.
Excellent reply Andrew, Thanks!
More new TGs this morning:
Montgomery County SO 4 (2032)
Montgomery County SO 2 (2028)
Montgomery County Jail (2018)
Montgomery County Courts Ch. 2 (2012)
Walker County EMS (1120)
Walker County SO Dispatch (1475)
Houston METRO Bus (2367)
TxDOT EOC (1422)
Currently, Walker County Fire is active on 121. Almost all of the new TGIDs I caught have been on that site today.
Good rule of thumb: If a new TG pops up and you hear, "[unit number] is OD" then it's probably a Montgomery County SO dispatch channel.
Montgomery County SO 4 (2032)
Montgomery County SO 2 (2028)
Montgomery County Jail (2018)
Montgomery County Courts Ch. 2 (2012)
Walker County EMS (1120)
Walker County SO Dispatch (1475)
Houston METRO Bus (2367)
TxDOT EOC (1422)
Currently, Walker County Fire is active on 121. Almost all of the new TGIDs I caught have been on that site today.
Good rule of thumb: If a new TG pops up and you hear, "[unit number] is OD" then it's probably a Montgomery County SO dispatch channel.
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Makes you wonder who's "flipping the switches" turning these various random tg's on/off and why the traffic is somewhat intermit to boot. Yea I haven't heard the techs either lately. Maybe they caught wind of us talking about them on here and clammed up! Still wanna know when Hensel, Millican and Washington sites are gonna come active.
I think all of the sites in Washington County are online, judging by what I've heard the techs say earlier. I think the reason there hasn't been much traffic on the tech channel is because I think they are done testing (as far as the "can you hear me now?" stuff). I suspect that they have now turned over to test the connectivity of the sites to all of the others in the system. I think they've made it to Harris County now, I cought HCSO Major Violators TAC 2, encrypted, of course. I also cought the METRO Bus channel (2367) briefly. It seems that the bulk of the activity has moved to 121. I have stopped hearing any of the MCSO dispatch channels, but am still hearing the County Jail channel and occassionally Courts Ch. 2 (encrypted, strangely). Funny I should have said that about the sudden abscence of the techs, they just reappeared on 2396...
That's funny, I caught the Metro Bus channel this morning on my way to work. I had to laugh at those people. The driver said that a light fixture had fallen over a passenger's seat, and the dispatcher was telling her it was not an emergency. The driver was telling her that her normal radio was on a fallback channel for some reason, and after that, they kind of trailed off. Funny stuff, though.
I don't believe the "Washington" site is up yet. At least no one has reported it.
1 - 7275 Lone Star Road, Washington (WASHINGTON) TX
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1 - 7275 Lone Star Road, Washington (WASHINGTON) TX
770.26875 FB2 100p 250.2e 8K70D1W 8K10F1E
771.23125 FB2 100p 250.2e 8K70D1W 8K10F1E
771.96875 FB2 100p 250.5e 8K70D1W 8K10F1E
772.49375 FB2 100p 250.2e 8K70D1W 8K10F1E
773.19375 FB2 100p 250.2e 8K70D1W 8K10F1E
No, it is not up yet. Still waiting on the Hensel, Washington, and Millican sites to go live.
That was the conversation I heard, too. Another thing...on Tuesday night (I think) I heard some UPD officers using that digital TAC channel on the TAMU system.
I put those in the site list for the HCRRS Brazos County group on my 396XT and 996T. They've been there for a while now, and I have not heard anything on them. I suspect those might be ISSI sites or something. I'm surprised that they have not come up yet.
partyguy816
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Anything more lately on this? I haven't been on the scanner much in the last week or so.
Nothing new there.
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Just heard Bryan Fire on HCRRS Analog in Huntsville (TGID 16096). Does anyone know if another system has become active in Bryan?
That is Waller County EMS Dispatch. But at last I heard, they were Medic 10, 20, 30, 40, and I think 50.
scanfan03
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I've never heard a 30 or 40 for Waller County EMS. It has been some time since I've listened though. I know for sure there is a 10, 20 and 50. Maybe 30 and 40 are reserves?
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