Buena Borough (Atlantic County) will move their dispatching function to Gloucester County in the fall. I'm assuming they'll have to go onto the Gloucester Co 500 MHz channels.
Buena Borough Dispatching Change
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Wow. That would be so completely weird! Soo...Atlantic County itself does not dispatch police departments?? So they just set up the TRS and in the municipalities each agency does the dispatching themselves...?? I wonder if we'll actually hear them then??? Or will they do something weird like set up a channel thats P-25 full time encrypted. Oops. Shouldn't give them any ideas. :>D
There is no county dispatching center. The TRS was originally started by a couple of towns (Galloway & Egg Harbor Twp) and escalated from there. The majority of fire & EMS is not on the TRS.
Egg Harbor Twp, Brigantine and Galloway went 800 E several moons ago. In a effort to improve interops and to promote a central dispatch Atlantic County bought from the 3 towns the towers, etc that where installed and then expanded the system to Downbeach and the western parts of the county.
Atlantc County has talked about central dispatch from at least the mid 70s when they proposed a 4 channel county wide police system that would be color coded (gold band, blue band, etc) with the main tower being located on top of the Atlantic City Race Track grand stands in Mays Landing. That never happened and I don't think central dispatch will happen in my life time.
The big push for the latest 800 E system that had 'interops' was an armed robbery in Pleasantville of the UPS distribution center on Leeds Ave about 9 years ago. Everyone was up in arms that EHT could not talk to Pleasantville and Pville could not talk to Absecon, etc, etc. The joke now is that after all these years Pleasantville is still on 155 VHF and never went 800.
To clarify the earlier post everyone is on the 800 E system with a few exceptions. Most of the FD/EMS that you hear are simulcasts.
Here are the exceptions: Somers Point, Linwood, Pleasantville, Buena Boro, Buena Vista Twp and Estelle Manor all remain on VHF as far as I know. Atlantic City is 800 MOT. I believe Hamilton Twp, EHC, Hammonton & Mullica FD are still on VHF but have been assigned 800 E tgs.
Atlantc County has talked about central dispatch from at least the mid 70s when they proposed a 4 channel county wide police system that would be color coded (gold band, blue band, etc) with the main tower being located on top of the Atlantic City Race Track grand stands in Mays Landing. That never happened and I don't think central dispatch will happen in my life time.
The big push for the latest 800 E system that had 'interops' was an armed robbery in Pleasantville of the UPS distribution center on Leeds Ave about 9 years ago. Everyone was up in arms that EHT could not talk to Pleasantville and Pville could not talk to Absecon, etc, etc. The joke now is that after all these years Pleasantville is still on 155 VHF and never went 800.
To clarify the earlier post everyone is on the 800 E system with a few exceptions. Most of the FD/EMS that you hear are simulcasts.
Here are the exceptions: Somers Point, Linwood, Pleasantville, Buena Boro, Buena Vista Twp and Estelle Manor all remain on VHF as far as I know. Atlantic City is 800 MOT. I believe Hamilton Twp, EHC, Hammonton & Mullica FD are still on VHF but have been assigned 800 E tgs.
Has any additional information come out on the Buena PD change? Is there any time frame on when this change might happen? What channel they may come onto on the Gloucester county system?
I might start with what ever group Newfield Boro PD is on since I see Newfield & BB sitting on the side of the road chatting frequently.
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Atlantic County sure is a mess.....
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