firemedic78
Member
I am in need of a little assistance here. I have a question and I would appreciate some feedback or an answer. My motorola 1250 vhf has the option of selecting 2 priority channels. Right now I have Priority 1 set to our County Fire frequency, that way I don't miss any traffic on it while I'm in scan mode, and also of course, because they are the ones that page us out, so I want to be notified when I'm scanning when there's traffic on my priority Channel, which also alerts me that there's traffic on priority Channel 1( which is set to our County Fire frequency) with the priority Channel notification beep, and then I can pay attention to see if I get paged out, which I would obviously know because once our tones are paged out, the radio will alert me. Now, priority 2 is set for a county that is the County south of us, which we have about 35-40 square miles of coverage in that County to. Our Town basically sits right on the county line. We are paged out by Guthrie County, Iowa Communication Center, but we also have a fair amount of territory, both for fire and EMS in Adair County, which borders up to our town. Actually, to be technically specific, the southern portion of our town is actually in Adair County, but the majority of our town is in Guthrie County, so you can see why some of our 911 calls go to the Adair County communications center, and even more so now with all the cell phones calling 911 and hitting the closest cell tower, which could either be in Guthrie or Adair County, and then Adair Con has to call Guthrie County Comms on the phone, or get on the radio on point to point Channel and call Guthrie, and relay all the information the 911 caller gave Adair County, or they can also transfer the call to Guthrie County . Adair County does not page us out, if they receive the 911 phone call and it's in our district in Adair County, then they will either get on the radio and call our County on point-to-point, which is simply just a channel that different agencies use to transfer important to one another, and then they will tell our County what's going on and have the appropriate agency and paged out. What I wanted to know is, when I am on a fire scene or even an EMS scene, since priority channel1 is set to Guthrie County Fire, which again, is the Dispatch Center that Pages us. Priority 2 is Adair County fire, which I would like to know while I'm in scan mode, when I hear traffic key up on one of my priority channels, which priority channel am I going to be transmitting on to acknowledge the radio traffic. Sometimes if it's a working fire, we will switch to a tactical channel, so using my field programmable buttons, I can change my priority 2 channel to the desired selected fire tactical channel that we are using. I guess I just want to know, since I am scanning and wanting to hear Guthrie County Fire frequency( Priority 1), in case we happen to get a second call, or to see if incident command is continuing to call for mutual aid departments, telling me that the fire is getting worse, and then priority 2 is set for fireground Tac Channel, so I guess I would like to know which channel I'm going to be talking on. Is it set as a default that even though you have two priority channels, is my radio always going to default to priority 1, no matter what, or is there a way that you can talk on priority channel 2( The fireground tactical Channel) if I need to transmit something to incident command? Obviously, if traffic on the priority 2 channel keys up, just as priority Channel 1 does, I will still here the beep alerting me that there's traffic on priority Channel 2. I know this is long and I apologize, it's just kind of the way I am, I try to get as much information out as possible to try to make everybody understand what my issue is, and I know I confuse a lot of people with me jumbling on and on with my questions and such but I just like to get as much information out as possible that way the right person, who may know the answer, can give me the answer. So with that being said, long story short, am I only able to talk back on one priority channel, or is there a way I can still have the two priority channels programmed into my radio and be able to talk on both of them during the same scene? Now, I also keep this in mind as well, I do understand that I can field program what channel is in Priority 1 slot and what channel is in priority 2 slot, so if I need to add a different Channel into either one of the priority slots, or delete the same way, I know I can do that, I am just trying to figure out a way to keep both of the channels that I want as priority channels and be able to talk on either one while on scene somewhere. Thanks for taking the time to read this long message, I hope I gave you enough information out that a two-year-old could probably figure it out better than I could, LOL, but in all seriousness, I hope I at least throughout this whole mumbo-jumbo of a mess I am hoping that somebody at least understands what I'm asking, can give me the right answer. You can either reply back to this thread or you can email me at firemedic78@msn.com and discuss the issue that way if you would like. Does not matter to me if you send me a private message here, an email, or a simple reply to this thread. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Stay safe and have a great day.
Chris Sciarrotta
Firemedic/Instructor
Menlo Fire & Rescue
Menlo, IA
Field Instructor
Fire Service Training Bureau
Ames, IA
(515)689-9641
firemedic78@msn.com
Chris Sciarrotta
Firemedic/Instructor
Menlo Fire & Rescue
Menlo, IA
Field Instructor
Fire Service Training Bureau
Ames, IA
(515)689-9641
firemedic78@msn.com
