WuLabsWuTecH
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I was curious as to whether anyone knows what the talkgroup 15408 is for in the Franklin County Public Safety Trunked System. It seems to be the same as 10 fire but on a 15 second delay?
This is an old post, but I figured it out and wanted to update this topic in case anyone else had similar questions.
Each station in the system has it's own Talkgroup labeled PA## where ## is the station number. While normally, dispatches come through an IP data router, if the system detects an issue, each station has a radio that is tuned to PA## and is hooked up to the station PA system. I am guessing that TG15408 was one of these and had I been paying closer attention, I would have seen that I was hearing everything on a 15 second delay, but for one particular station only. So when the main router goes down, they can still dispatch each station via the PA system using a radio talkgroup.
This makes sense--other systems in the RR database have talkgroups published for specific station calls. I guess no one bothered to enter in the ones for the franklin county system!
Does this mean that if we have the right talkgroups, we could listen to dispatches for each individual station? 10 Fire has too much traffic for my listening preference, so I keep it locked out most of the time. I have always wondered if there was a way I could narrow it down to just a handful of stations that are of interest to me.
Does this mean that if we have the right talkgroups, we could listen to dispatches for each individual station? 10 Fire has too much traffic for my listening preference, so I keep it locked out most of the time. I have always wondered if there was a way I could narrow it down to just a handful of stations that are of interest to me.
As noted in the previous post, these are backup talkgroups only and this would only work if the computer network goes down.
Unfortunately...
(although from a system administrator's standpoint, the thought of seven or eight talkgroups all going active at once for a large incident dispatch on top of other system traffic is kind of worrisome; talk about loading problems...)