Chester County P25

[doc62]

I believe he said POCSAG using Swissphone pagers.

 

[cavmedic]

I believe he said POCSAG using Swissphone pagers.

This is correct, it will be a Swiss phone Pocsag VHF system. It will be using the same VHF paging frequency and plan is to keep both online until full cut over.

The only time a tower should be offline is when the new antennas and such are being installed or when equipment is being added inline.

 

[CommJunkie]

This is correct, it will be a Swiss phone Pocsag VHF system. It will be using the same VHF paging frequency and plan is to keep both online until full cut over.

The only time a tower should be offline is when the new antennas and such are being installed or when equipment is being added inline.

So no tone anymore at all then

 

[cavmedic]

So no tone anymore at all then

I have not heard otherwise.

A main reason for one to go this route would be to increases the speed of dispatches. You can dispatch many more incidents over pocsag than when two tone pages are stacked in a cue, especially when it’s a multiple discipline and company dispatch.

If you are a responder and have other services like Active 911, how many times does that go off before the pagers do, especially during high incident times.

There can also better control over priority call types. Example: A cardiac arrest can be automatically prioritized to go to the front of the line rather than be sitting in the cue waiting for it turn to go out.

I would guess that there will still be whacker factor with the existing rebroadcasts

 

[CommJunkie]

I just bought a G5 I won’t be able to use for alerts anymore

 

[cavmedic]

I just bought a G5 I won’t be able to use for alerts anymore

You will still be able to use it for a while. Not to mention the ability to monitor the talk groups moving forward.

Not a complete loss.