Data signals on 154.235 Congress Fire

[N9JIG]

I have just started to listen to 154.235, the Congress Fire District a little to the north of me. Occasionally I hear data signals coming thru the repeater that sound something like the alerting signals on FRS radios.

Anyone know what these signals are? Some sort of old Modat system? They don't sound like ANI as they are not a preamble to a voice message, they are separate transmissions

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Can you provide an audio sample? I'll take a stab in the dark and say POCSAG?

 

[Ravenfalls]

Congress now part of SYFD dispatched by RMFD in Scottsdale.

Possible Congress only wants tone with no voice? Also get CAD on phone.

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[scanbc780]

If it sounds kinda FRS roger tone like, it could be their phone patch. Very rarely will Congress answer calls over the patch but sometimes they have to. Sometimes after you hear this you may hear their dispatcher say "non-emergency" referring to it not being a phone call to respond to. So any and all calls to their main number ring over their radios.

I will listen in and see if it the same thing I am referring to.

 

[scanbc780]

Congress now part of SYFD dispatched by RMFD in Scottsdale.

Can you please cite a source for this?

 

[Ravenfalls]

Can you please cite a source for this?

No, RMFD been dispatching for those departments good year.
Just have to listen & you know it's the RMFD dispatcher.

 

[scanbc780]

Yarnell and Peeples Valley I believe is and have been quite a while, but I’m pretty sure Congress Fire handles all their own calls. When you call, Congress Fire Dept picks up the phone.

 

[N9JIG]

Here is the data as recorded on a 536 today. It was followed a few minutes later with "Engine 1, they went ahead and cancelled.". Sounds like a phone ring perhaps.

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[scanbc780]

Yes. that is their incoming phone patch sound.