Broward County P25 (997.BEE00)

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Thanks for the info. When listening to both Ft. Lauderdale FR and Pompano Beach FR, specifically, it sounds like the same dispatchers and the same tactical channel assignments (TAC-1 through TAC-4). Does BSO dispatch for FLFR and PBFR?
They have 3 dispatch centers: north, central, and south that divvy up the various jurisdictions that were gerrymandered under Ken Jenne and they are ever so slowly coming out of the Stone Age to embrace this newfangled concept of mutual aid. They conduct a roll call on tg 10020 "fire call" at 10:00 and I think 23:00 every day so you can hear who's who there.

Broward County fire has 15 tactical channels that are assigned in numerical sequence as incidents pile up. So they assign tac 1 to the current incident, tac 2 to the next one, tac 3 to the next one after that. These tac talkgroups are common to all participating agencies.

Special note that tac 11 is used by FLL ARFF so if there's an aircraft incident at the big airport that is the channel to monitor.

Fort Lauderdale has a similar block of talkgroups on their system, but they haven't used them for incident response for a few years now. It was something of a fire drill when they started on their tac B, then when the incident grew to the point that they needed mutual aid they had to switch units over to the County talkgroups anyway so they just got smart and start there nowadays.

The trouble is that there don't seem to be any standards at Broward Fire dispatch, so often times the Info channel operator will hand out fireground talkgroups for training drills, which is really bad form. They have 3 training talkgroups labeled for that purpose that sometimes get used.
 

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Does anybody know what channel is P67? Pappa one was following a Battery on a Leo subject into Palm Beah County and dispactch was like switch to this channel to patch with FHP. I never heard of this channel and can't find it anywhere on the talkgroups for Broward County.
 

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Does anybody know what channel is P67? Pappa one was following a Battery on a Leo subject into Palm Beah County and dispactch was like switch to this channel to patch with FHP. I never heard of this channel and can't find it anywhere on the talkgroups for Broward County.
Don’t know, but usually when there’s a chase from Broward into PB, they switch to one of the PBSO LECom channels.
 

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Does anybody know what channel is P67? Pappa one was following a Battery on a Leo subject into Palm Beah County and dispactch was like switch to this channel to patch with FHP. I never heard of this channel and can't find it anywhere on the talkgroups for Broward County.
Perhaps they were talking about PSIC 7?
 

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Usually when thats the case dispatcher will say switch to Palm Beach LEcom channel. I never heard of the P67 channel before.
Not P67 but rather PSIC 7. I don’t think there is a P67 channel. The PSIC system has FHP patching capabilities (amongst many others) and has far greater coverage than Palm Beach
 

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8CALL is standalone analog repeaters all over the State. One input, one output.

PSIC is a linked digital trunked system in participating counties throughout the state with numerous talkgroups. Similar concept being interoperability but on a larger scale.
 

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Did Broward radio system go offline? Went to turn on my Unication G4 for Broward County Sherriff talkgroups and im getting an out of range. Corals Springs, Fort lauderdale, Plantation still works. I didn't change any setting on my pager.
 

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Seems to be working according to DSD+, however I see a lot of "Channel Resource not available" messages.
 

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I've been listening to numerous talkgroups on the Broward County system all morning long, no indications of trouble. It would be quite the story if that big, busy system went off the air completely.

Current and long-standing control channel is still 774.90625 MHz
 

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Something seems to be a bit off with the system. DSD+ seems normal, but SDRTrunk shows activity, but I'm not hearing any voice (Coral Springs working normally). Under messages, I'm seeing "Half Duplex Circuit Mode" whatever that means.
 

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I mean, the Unication G4 is a hand-held radio. Maybe when it says OUT OF RANGE it really means that it can't hear the system? It happens. Move the radio around or take it outdoors.

In any case, it's a teeny tiny bit more likely that a consumer-grade radio is at fault than a highly engineered and well-tended trunked radio system. That would be the first place to check.
 
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