Difficult on the intersection calls. I manually entered every single 10th of a mile NB and SB on 476 and 95 to make her say it correctly. As I hear these things pop up true them in. I'll have to add that one.
So, what's the deal with this? Are we a troll or in love with Steve?
He is good people! Well respected fire chief and a very good person.
The 4,000 users need to be re-trained about how to properly use their mics - lots of old habits and misinformation out in the wild. Intelligible communications begins with the user. Many people would be surprised about how often replay on the console is required to decode someone's message / speech - it is frequent.
I've been hanging out on the Event and Training talkgroups lately when testing audio levels and such. Now that evening is live I shifted off of the main groups when testing. 200 is the Zetron core ID. Originally all consoles shared it but we went to individual IDs per position instead. Now you will see 200 when the P25 call is generated by the Zetron core and not an individual dispatch console position. This would be things like patches and pre canned alert tones.
Like Al Pacino said in the locker room. “It’s the six inches in front of your face”. Hold the mic 6” from your lips especially if noise canceling is a thing.
I picked up delco up at Ursinis college a couple weeks ago. Once I’m on ridge pike in the nose bleed section of the ridge, I can pick up delco, Philly, bucks and Chester until the dip down into norristown.
They have a talkgroup on the new system but they so far they have been sticking primarily to their old UHF.
Did they say what comm issues they were having? There's a tower in the township, i can't imagine they'd have coverage issues.
