I am very new at this larger system-based equipment stuff, so please bear with me.
I work in a hospital which has very poor radio reception in the basement and East side, inconveniently the same area where the emergency department is. As such, EMS agencies in the emergency department being paged for additional calls are in a dead zone, which is causing delayed responses and this delays in patient care. I work for the EMS department there, which uses a system of recorders and retransmitters for every time the two-tones are dropped. Unfortunately, this delays the page the length of the transmission AND causes any additional transmissions for additional calls to be completely blocked out during the retransmission, which causes frequent missed calls and thus delays.
Therefore, I'm asking what hardware I need to look into to create a "mini-base station" (pardon if my terminology is incorrect) in that particular area of the hospital where I can work with the dispatch center to patch into their system and have it transmit like every other tower set up on the simulcast in the county. I believe their towers are linked over IP (maybe a T1 line), but I can't say for sure so I need other options for other means as well.
Thanks in advance!
I work in a hospital which has very poor radio reception in the basement and East side, inconveniently the same area where the emergency department is. As such, EMS agencies in the emergency department being paged for additional calls are in a dead zone, which is causing delayed responses and this delays in patient care. I work for the EMS department there, which uses a system of recorders and retransmitters for every time the two-tones are dropped. Unfortunately, this delays the page the length of the transmission AND causes any additional transmissions for additional calls to be completely blocked out during the retransmission, which causes frequent missed calls and thus delays.
Therefore, I'm asking what hardware I need to look into to create a "mini-base station" (pardon if my terminology is incorrect) in that particular area of the hospital where I can work with the dispatch center to patch into their system and have it transmit like every other tower set up on the simulcast in the county. I believe their towers are linked over IP (maybe a T1 line), but I can't say for sure so I need other options for other means as well.
Thanks in advance!