Current MED channel status in NM/ABQ?

[AM909]

Regarding MED-channel usage in New Mexico and specifically Albuquerque, most of what I find has gotten pretty old, so on the boring subject of this old analog system ...

They do use the standard MED1 through MED10 pairings, right? I ask because N.M. Admin. Code § 7.27.5.17(A)(2) says that air transport MED2 is "(2) Transmit 463.235, receive 468.025" instead of 463.025, though the rest of the table is right. It doesn't seem to have been corrected since last revised in 2006. NMHealth proposed elimination of the detailed freqs in favor of the same language used for the non-air transports, pointing to EMSCOM for guidance. That EMSCOM doc is also kind of old.

Also, that EMSCOM doc confirms that mobiles transmit on the higher freq and receive the lower, while the NMAC shows the helos doing the opposite. Since there appears to be a repeater system in use for all these channels (right?), did NMAC get this wrong, too, and do all users (helos, ambulances, hospitals) transmit high and receive low? The first pic on page 9 has the hospital backwards, though the rest is consistent with what I said. (This RX/TX misunderstanding seems to be a common mistake among people and documents, not just for NM.)

Is 136.5 the only CTCSS and do the repeaters and mobiles both transmit tone?

 

[oniell121]

Here in the Metro, Med 10 is used as AAS dispatch, Med 9 is used as AAS On-Call (For units on a call that is), Med 2 is AAS dispatch used by units coming into town (We call it OOT for out of town), Med 3 is the VA ED, Med 6 is for Lovelace ED'S, Med 7 are Presbyterian ED's, Med 22 is for SRMC ED, and Med 1 is UNMH ED.

Meds 9, 10, 1, and 3 are all repeaters. Med 6 and 7 are not. I can't remember if 22 is or not right now. I don't think so though. There is a Med 9 and 10 repeater at Presbyterian Downtown and on Sandia peak. Same frequency, different PL access. As far as I hear and understand, all air and ground units talk on the same sets.

 

[oniell121]

PS, there's also a Med 9 and 10 East Mountains (EM) that's actually on Med 120-something I think. I'll have to see if I still have that written down somewhere. It's use is the same, it's just on the other side of the mountain for the AAS unit out there.