EMS Medical Control/Hospital Patching

[Nchawk]

As someone who has recently started EMT training I enjoy listening to EMS calls out here in the west valley through the standard fire dispatch on 154.19 and the K deck talkgroups. However, Ive been struggling in my efforts to figure out the frequencies that paramedics use for patching with Medical Control and for "courtesy calls" to hospitals before arrival. Even when I think Ive tracked frequencies down, they seem to be dead.

So, any tips?

 

[fire_master_21]

try looking here. Common/Shared Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
I'm not sure what its like down south but I know in the Kingman area we mostly phone patch now days. I would say our radio patches are down to about 30 out of 100 we bring in.

 

[E5911]

ems med control/patching

Tuscon and Phoenix handle thier own patching, DPS handles the rest of the state outside of "standalone repeaters" Most units patch with cell phones now.

Speaking to DPS today they confirm, thier console, with MED5 as the dispatch channel will discontinue operations this summer. The Standalone repeaters will remain.

The reason for the change in operations is the present configuration had mutiple med channels at each of the 31 DPS sites and all had to be narrowbanded. there was simply no money. So the Standalons got narrow banded and the decision was made to decommision the rest of the system. Too bad.

 

[AZhummer]

definitely too bad! does this mean dps ranger and dps dispatch will be using something other than 463.1/468.1 ?