Halifax fire narrow-banding

[reconrider8]

Halifax county fire will be narrow-banding this Thursday Oct 4th

 

[trumpetman]

I think you mean narrow-banding.

 

[reconrider8]

same thing lol but yes thats what i ment to type and i want to say ems just switched this mornng i heard them tell ems to switch over to Brinkleyville then they just told them to switch back over

 

[KE4ZNR]

I think you mean narrow-banding.

I fixed it for him.
Marshall KE4ZNR

 

[reconrider8]

thanks marshall lol

 

[reconrider8]

their getting ready to narrow-band Brinkleyville as we speak so i guess they are going ahead and getting all they can narrow banded today

 

[rescue674aa]

Does that mean they are switching to viper or what?

 

[reconrider8]

no they are just switching over from 25khz to 12.5khz they started working ol Weldon fire dept radios something like 2 weeks ago cause they had to change almost every radio over but thank goodness all but like 1 radio will work

 

[yardbird]

Good I will be down that way in a couple of weeks.

I know that the narrow-banding is a must and will be good when everybody gets on board.

I just hate to see all the high dollar Motorola Portables that will become paperweights, unless you can tune them down into the ham bands.

Thanks

David

 

[rescue674aa]

Are they ever going to viper or just narrow banding

 

[gr8rcall]

Are they ever going to viper or just narrow banding

Sounds like for right now they're just narrow-banding.

Gr8rcall

 

[reconrider8]

i would love to see them hitting the viper wagon but no they are going to spend all that money to get everything narrow banded but i guess thats good and whatcha going to be this way for tb?

 

[rescue674aa]

Here in Currituck county is going non trucked 800 digital but we will have viper for mutual aid. They should do something like that.

 

[reconrider8]

well i know why we arnt on viper yet we are one of the poorest counties in the state lol

 

[WA4MJF]

Speaking from the user standpoint VIPER is not really noticeable. Just a different radio and
wait for the beep before you talk. Otherwise, just like the VHF we used to use.