Houma FD

[teebee]

It sounds like Houma FD has made the switch to LWIN. For the past 2 weeks I have heard the dispatcher a couple of times on 700 doing radio test but have not heard any unit transmissions until this afternoon I have been hearing calls where both sides of transmissions. So I guess they have now migrated totally to 700

 

[shew]

ditto here.... heard them going to a fire alarm right before fire page test and during fire pagers heard engine 2 and 1 go in service and unit 100...

 

[shew]

ditto here.... heard them going to a fire alarm right before fire page test and during fire pagers heard engine 2 and 1 go in service and unit 100...

now if only grand caillou would go to 700..don't even hear dispatcher on 700 for grand caillou...

 

[teebee]

Yes and Lafourche S.O., Thibodeaux PD, FD, and Schrever F.D. as well.

 

[shew]

Yes and Lafourche S.O., Thibodeaux PD, FD, and Schrever F.D. as well.

schriever is just like houma fire was only hearing dispatcher....no units yet on lwin...i heard lafourche on 700 doing record checks on terrebonne s.o. talk groups in the past haven't heard them lately(1 month)

 

[teebee]

It sounds like St. James has made the switch as well. 32000 Has been active all afternoon. First time I have heard them on LWIN. Their ids has been listed in the DB for some time just never heard any activity till today. Not sure if they are still using their 800 system. I am not always able to hear that system because of their location.

 

[shew]

st. james must of been having problems with their 800 mhz rads. last night i heard a couple of units saying that they are in a certain area and doing the 5 count...been monotiring for 15 minutes this morning and nothing on their 800mhz...

 

[fireman1417]

We had a lightning strike to an antenna here in St. James parish, the 800 system is back online, from what I was told we are actually sharing the state LWIN antennas for now.
Most of the agencies here have the 700 capable radios now, we just haven't migrated over because the dispatch center isn't upgraded yet.
Fire departments weren't told to switch over, I guess the S.O. did just to be safe while they were evaluating the damage.

 

[shew]

yea i read somewhere where st james fire won't switch over until s.o. switches over it will be all or nothing...

 

[teebee]

Has Houma F.D. disapeared already? Have not heard them on LWIN in several days. What happened

 

[shew]

at 7 p.m.. i heard houma engine 4 completing last assignment and heading 2 quarters on lwin