Florida RR dB and "Med Channels"

[batdude]

We (the FL dB Admins) have seen multiple submissions to the RR dB asking that various county-level "med channels" be removed from the dB.

For now, these submissions - asking to deprecate the VC-1/2 and Med channel listings --- will not be worked unless the change is to the frequency assignment, PL tone, or callsign.

FOR NOW, the latest Florida EMS Communications Guide - still requires that each county maintain some type of backup communications.

Unless I am reading it wrong, this section of the above linked document applies:

5.4.1 LMC Base Station Repeater Facilities Per Chapter 395, Florida Statutes, “Each licensed hospital with an emergency department must be capable of communicating by two-way radio with all… basic life support service vehicles and advanced life support service…” Every hospital emergency department must have the capability to reliably communicate to at least a 5-mile radius of its facility on the LMC channel approved or assigned by DivTel’s Bureau of Public Safety. This may be satisfied throughout the region by a UHF channel on a geographic allotment basis or on a real-time allocation basis, or by another frequency band approved by the DivTel Bureau of Public Safety.


Without bonafide "I saw the gear get removed from the site" input --- each county listing that currently contains UHF Med Channel assignments will stay "as is".


doug

 

[khvfdff]

Thanks Doug!

 

[bravo14]

When I lived in Bay County there is days I hear out of town users or private ems/transport using either Gulf Coast Reg or Bay Med uhf.

 

[tampabaynews]

Good call. I figure because lots of counties use their trunked system for hospital comms… people think that means the UHF med radios are gone for good. That’s certainly not the case.

 

[N4DES]

A number of Counties have received permission from DMS to scale down their UHF EMS systems.
Palm Beach County regionalized MED's 1, 3, and 4 and MED 8 is county-wide after receiving approval from DMS in the mid-2000's.